Pushdo/Cutwail: August, 2010

One of the world’s most prolific botnets and a leading source of spam, denial of service attacks and malware, Pushdo was brought down by researchers at the security firm Last Line of Defense, who worked with hosting providers to seize 30 command-and-control servers involved in the botnet...

Attacking and Defending the Tor Network

BOSTON–The Tor Project has become a vital mechanism for privacy advocates, human rights activists, journalists and others in sensitive positions to evade online censorship and persecution. And while the governments interested in limiting user access to the Internet and controlling content have ha...

VMware vCenter Orchestrator and Alive Enterprise remote code execution vulnerability

a. Vulnerability in third party Apache Struts componentVMware vCenter Orchestrator is an application to automate management tasks. Alive Enterprise is an application to monitor processes. Both products embed Apache Struts which is a third party component.The following vulnerability has been...

Pentagon tightens computer security in wake of WikiLeaks breach !

Top defense and intelligence officials reiterated their commitment to information-sharing at a Senate hearing Thursday, even as they outlined new safeguards to prevent a repeat of the WikiLeaks breach that has led to the release of thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables. T...

VMSA-2011-0005:VMware vCenter Orchestrator and Alive Enterprise remote code execution vulnerability

VMSA-2011-0005.3 VMware vCenter Orchestrator and Alive Enterprise remote code execution vulnerability VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2011-0005.3 VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware vCenter Orchestrator and Alive Enterprise remote code execution...

EC-Council Launches Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST) !

EC-Council Launches Center for Advanced Security Training CAST to Address the Growing Need for Advanced Information Security Knowledge Mar 9, 2011, Albuquerque, NM - According to the report, Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th President, released in November 2010 by Center for Strategic and...

Zombies, Baseball and IT Security

How is defending your network and users from sophisticated cyber attacks like fending off a zombie invasion? Funny you should ask! In an interview with Threatpost Editor Paul Roberts, Josh Corman, the Research Director in the Enterprise Security Practice at the 451 Group reprises a 2011 RSA...

Iran Welcomes Hackers Who Work For Islamic Republic !

An official with Iran's Revolutionary Guard has said that Iran welcomes hackers who are willing to work for the Islamic Republic. "Regarding the cyber issue, we welcome the presence of those hackers who are willing to work for the goals of the Islamic Republic with good will and revolutionary...

DHS Needs to Change Rules to Recruit Hackers into U.S. Security Agencies !

Members of the hacker community are leery of working with the government and sharing their skills, if it means navigating through outdated regulations and being viewed as potential security risks. Hackers and other computer experts willing to collaborate with the Department of Homeland Security t...

U.S. Military's Cyber Chief Warns Of Eroding Technical Prowess

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Military’s top officer in charge of cyber security said that the country must invest more in so-called “STEM” programs – science, technology, engineering and math – to avoid being outflanked in a world where cyber offensive- and defensive operations are the keys to milita...

Chinese hackers targeted House of Commons !

Chinese hackers not only attacked key federal departments: they also cracked into the computer system of the House of Commons, targeting MPs with large ethnic Chinese constituencies, CTV News has learned. Sources say Canada's secret cyber spy agency -- the Communications Security Establishment --...

RedHat Update for java-1.6.0-openjdk RHSA-2011:0281-01

Check for the Version of java-1.6.0-openjdk OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for java-1.6.0-openjdk RHSA-2011:0281-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

RHEL 5 / 6 : java-1.6.0-openjdk (RHSA-2011:0281)

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.6.0-openjdk security update

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

HOLD — HBGary Federal News…

HBGary Federal, the beleagured security startup that has been the target of the online mischief making group Anonymous for the last week said on Monday that it was ceasing operations | its CEO Aaron Barr was stepping down. The consulting firm, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBGary Inc., had been...

Secret plan to kill Wikileaks with FUD leaked !

Three security consulting firm with links to intelligence agencies of the United States to cook up to dirty tricks campaign late last year in favor of Wikileaks to destroy its perceived weaknesses, reads the draft published in the organization of information 'which claimed to be from the...

Students will analysis cyber security skills vs. peers !

Flour Bluff Aerial Academy inferior Alex Blanke never accepted the accoutrement to abolish bacilli from his computer. But he capital to learn. Now he is on a mission to chase and abort computer bacilli and added aegis threats. He and green Sierra Alves represent Flour Bluff in a civic aerial...

British govt computers under cyber attacks from hostile states !

British Adopted Secretary William Hague has said that cyberspace is acceptance abyss and adverse intelligence agencies to advance the British government. During a appointment in Munich, Hague not alone talked about how government computers were adulterated by a virus aftermost year, but...

DHS Investing $40 Million for Cybersecurity Research !

Insider threats, botnets and malware, and assay to abutment the Comprehensive Civic Cyber Initiative CNCI are amid areas of cybersecurity advance the Department of Homeland Aegis DHS will accomplish in budgetary year 2011. The DHS Science and Technology Homeland Aegis Advanced Assay Projects Bure...

London Police Arrest Five Anonymous Hacker !

Month after allegedly assaulting various websites to defend Wikileaks London police may have caught members of "hacktivism" Anonymous group. Five alleged members were arrested in London today for Anonymous violation of the Computer Misuse Act. The men are aged 15 to 26 and face up to 10 years in...