Forward Incremental – Animation of Method and Retention

Purpose This article is intended to document how Forward Incremental works, and how its retention is enforced. Solution There are two distinct methods of Forward Incremental: Forever Forward Incremental Forward Incremental with Periodic Fulls Forever Forward Incremental For more information...

Reverse Incremental – Animation of Method and Retention

Purpose This article is intended to document how Reversed Incremental works, and how its retention is enforced. Reverse Incremental Backup Method For information regarding this Backup Method please review the user guide. Reverse Incremental Restore Point Creation The following is an animation...

FBI to Open Up Malware Investigator Portal to External Researchers

SEATTLE–The FBI has developed an internal malware-analysis tool, somewhat akin to the systems used by antimalware companies, and plans to open the system up to external security researchers, academics and others. The system is known as Malware Investigator and is designed to allow FBI agents and...

FBI Not Happy With Apple & Google's Encryption Policy

Users might have praised the technology companies for efforts to encrypt their latest devices that would prevent law enforcement agencies’ hands on users’ private data, but the FBI is not at all happy with Apple and Google right now. The Federal Bureau of Investigation director, James Comey, said...

Users in Dark about Permissions Granted to Mobile Apps

It’s no secret that mobile applications are a greedy bunch, often grasping for many more permissions than necessary. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office ICO this week released the results of a study conducted by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network GPEN that quantified just how bad the...

Home Depot Urges Credit Monitoring Vigilance

Home Depot told its customers today to monitor their bank and credit card accounts for fraud as it continues to investigate the “unusual activity” on its networks that could turn out to be one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. history. “We’re looking into some unusual activity that might...

Home Depot Investigating Massive Data Breach

Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a costly data breach, and if early indications are correct, the hackers may have been on the home giant’s network longer than hackers were on Target’s systems, and a greater number of consumers may be at risk. A Home Depot representative confirmed...

Data Breach Exposes Customer Payment Card Information

Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU announced yesterday that a data breach may have exposed the credit and debit card information of an unknown number of its customers at various grocery store locations in more than 18 states. Behind Kroger’s, Albertsons is the second largest grocery store...

Digital Forensics Toolkit: DEFT

DEFT acronym for Digital Evidence & Forensics Toolkit is a distribution made for Computer Forensics, with the purpose of running live on systems without tampering or corrupting devices hard disks, pendrives, etc… connected to the PC where the boot process takes place. The system is based on GNU...

Fedora 19 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.6-1.fc19 (2014-8577)

phpMyAdmin 4.2.6.0 2014-07-17 =============================== - Undefined index warning with referenced column. - $cfg'MaxExactCount' is ignored when BROWSING is back - Multi Column sorting improved user experience - Server validation does not work while in setup/mysqli - Undefined variable when...

CryptoLocker Infections Continue as New Rasomware Evolves

U.S. and European law enforcement officials last month, performed a coordinated takedown of the GameOver Zeus botnet. At the time, they claimed that the operation also neutralized the infamous CryptoLocker ransomware, which criminals had distributed using GameOver’s infrastructure. However, Tyler...

International Authorities Take Down Shylock Banking Malware

Like most profitable criminal enterprises, the Shylock banking malware thrived because it was supported by a nimble infrastructure that allowed it to stay one step ahead of network and security monitoring capabilities, and the authorities. That race ended this week. Europol announced today that i...

New Verizon Transparency Report Shows Large Government Appetite for Location, Content Data

Verizon said in a new transparency report that though the number of some kinds of orders dropped–including wiretap orders and warrants–others rose, including general orders and pen register and trap and trace orders, and the company received nearly 150,000 total orders in the first half of 2014...

miniLock - Open Source File Encryption Tool from CryptoCat Developer

It’s the age of surveillance what made the Use of Encryption so widely that it has become a need of law enforcement agencies, cyber criminals as well as every individual. But, encryption is not so easy. To solve this problem, a 23-year old Cryptocat developer Nadim Kobeissi is ready to release a...

Researchers Uncover Spying Tool Used by Governments to Hijack all Types of Smartphones

Purchasing malware to victimize people is illegal by laws but if the same thing any government official do, then its not!! Yes, the police forces around the World are following the footsteps of U.S. National Security Agency NSA and FBI. Researchers from the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Globa...

Kaspersky, Citizen Lab Uncover HackingTeam Mobile Malware

Controversial spyware commercially developed by Italy’s HackingTeam and sold to governments and law enforcement for the purpose of surveillance, has a global command and control infrastructure and for the first time, security experts have insight into how its mobile malware components work...

FBI, NYPD Form Financial Cybercrime Task Force

The FBI has formed a new cybercrime task force with the New York Police Department and the Metropolitan Transit Authority whose job will be to go after high-level financial cyber crimes, employing a model of interagency cooperation that the bureau and other federal law enforcement agencies have...

USN-2247-1 nova vulnerabilities

Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Nova did not properly set up its sudo configuration. If a different flaw was found in OpenStack Nova, this vulnerability could be used to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

openSUSE Security Update : icedtea-web (openSUSE-SU-2012:0371-1)

update to 1.2 - New features : - Signed JNLP support - Support for client authentication certificates - Cache size enforcement now supported via itweb-settings - Applet parameter passing through JNLP files now supported - Better icons for access warning dialog - Security Dialog UI revamped to...

Vodafone Transparency Report Reveals Global Surveillance

Vodafone, the world’s second largest telecommunications company, today published its first transparency report, its Law Enforcement Disclosure Report, in which it revealed that a small number of countries by law have direct access to the provider’s network. The report does not identify the...