Survey Finds Secure Sites Not So Secure

A new project that was setup to monitor the quality and strength of the SSL implementations on top sites across the Internet found that 75 percent of them are vulnerable to the BEAST SSL attack and that just 10 percent of the sites surveyed should be considered secure. The SSL Pulse project, set ...

Global Payments Inc. Acknowledges Breach

Following previous announcements from Visa and Mastercard, electronic credit card processor Global Payments Inc. acknowledged late Friday that its system was breached earlier this year. Global Payments announced via press release that a portion of its processing system had been compromised in ear...

Why Hackers Can't take down DNS root servers ?

Why Hackers Can't take down DNS root servers ? Interpol Chief Ronald Noble on Friday warned that a group of hackers might try to shut down internet service tomorrow. The hacking group, Anonymous, is protesting against several reasons including the crash of Wall Street and irresponsible leaders...

Kelihos Botnet with 110,000 PCs take down finally

Kelihos Botnet with 110,000 PCs take down finally Botnets are particularly insidious, using thousands of virus-infected computers which their owners are unaware are being used for sending out spam, launching denial-of-service attacks and stealing data.But taking down a botnet poses challenges. Th...

Oxford University launches Cyber Security Centre

Oxford University launches Cyber Security Centre Cyber crime is not going away. As the world becomes ever more interconnected and dependent on networks, laptops and personal handheld devices, the opportunities are just too great. The personal information stored on such devices credit card...

ISPs Signal Support For Anti-Bot Code Of Conduct

The U.S.’s leading Internet Service Providers signed on to a new Federal Communications Commission code of conduct to limit the impact of major cyber security threats including botnets, attacks on the Domain Name System DNS and Internet routing attacks. AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Sprint, Ti...

Yet Another Google Chrome Sandbox Critical Exploit by Turkish security experts

Yet Another Google Chrome Sandbox Critical Exploit by Turkish security experts Turkish security experts from Arf Iskenderun Technologies, finds the new vulnerability open in Google Chrome 17.0.963.78 , same risk working on new update 17.0.963.79 and bypass Chrome SandBox. Last week, Vupen Securit...

PyPAM Python bindings for PAM - Double-Free Corruption

PyPAM Python bindings for PAM - Double-Free Corruption === LSE Leading Security Experts - Security Advisory 2012-03-01 === PyPAM -- Python bindings for PAM - Double Free Corruption --------------------------------------------------------- Affected Versions ================= PyPAM = 0.4.2 Red Hat...

Despite Intrusions, Chances Of U.S.-China Cyber War Are Small

SAN FRANCISCO – A panel of security and policy experts said that, despite dire warnings about the information warfare capabilities of China and other developing nations, the risk of an all-out cyber war is remote, and that the U.S. still holds many of the cards. Despite widespread portrayals of...

Abbott Web Experts SQL Injection

Exploit Title : abbottwebexperts Sql Injection Vulnerabilitiy Author : IrIsT.Ir Discovered By : Am!r Home : http://IrIsT.Ir Software Link : http://abbottwebexperts.com/ Security Risk : High Version : All Version Tested on : GNU/Linux Ubuntu - Windows Server - win7 Dork : "Powered by Abbott Web...

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Google

Cross Site Scripting XSS Vulnerability in Google Ucha Gobejishvili Hacker with codename "longrifle0x" discovered another Cross Site Scripting XSS Vulnerability in Google's Website. He already reported about the Vulnerability to Google Security Experts. Proof of Concept: Open and Click Find Domain...

Data Breach Affects Two Million NY Customers, State Commission to Investigate

The New York State Public Service Commission announced yesterday they’ll be looking into a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of almost two million customers to unknown attackers. An employee from a software consulting firm contracted by New York State Electric & Gas NYSEG...

Coalfire in the News

Its been quite a season in the world of IT security as we move into 2012. As experts in our field, we are often asked to comment on current trends and recent stories. Take some time to check out what we have had to say recently:...

At FBI's Cyber Crime Conference: Chest Thumping And Head Scratching In Equal Measure

Long content to talk about the “what” behind cyber crime, the nation’s top computer security cops descended on New York City this week for the FBI’s International Conference on Cyber Crime ready to talk about “who.” But while discussions of tools and techniques for identifying criminal actors...

International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World

International Conference on Cyber Security ICCS 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World The FBI is teaming up with Fordham University for the International Conference on Cyber Security. It's an effort to identify emerging cyber threats and develop ways to mitigate those threats. The ZeuS Trojan has...

Facebook Jumps The Shark With IPO, Privacy Backlash

User backlash against Facebook’s ever-evolving but always overreaching data privacy plans is almost as old as the site itself. But there’s good reason to believe that 2012 will mark a turning point for the fast growing social network. For one thing, Facebook is on track for an IPO initial public...

Internet Pioneers, Security Experts Send Letter to Congress Blasting SOPA

A group of engineers, networking specialists, security experts and other specialists deeply involved with the Internet’s development and growth have sent a letter to lawmakers criticizing the highly controversial SOPA and PIPA bills and imploring them not to pass the legislation, which they say...

Facebook Scam Claims Justin Bieber Stabbed

Teen pop sensation and Rachel Maddow look-alike, Justin Bieber, was not stabbed outside a Los Angeles nightclub, nor was he stabbed outside a nightclub in New York, as two current Facebook spam campaigns allege. Reports claiming that the 17 year-old Canadian megastar had been stabbed by a crazed...

National program for Cyber army to be launched in India

National program for Cyber army to be launched inIndia Increasing attacks on cyberspace in India has brought several professionals and experts from the Industry, in support with the Government of India to jointly form a national level program to identify credible and valuable information security...

CVE-2010-4944

SQL injection vulnerability in the Elite Experts comeliteexperts component for Mambo and Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in a showExpertProfileDetailed action to index.php...