Week in Security: More Wikileaks Fallout, Cybersecurity Buzz and Browser Updates

The words “cyber war” were in the headlines this week, as controversy and debate about the leak of confidential diplomatic cables by Wikileaks reached a fever pitch. As speculation turned to the fallout from the ongoing publication of documents, the U.S. government laid the groundwork to prevent...

Audit: NASA Fails To Properly Wipe Data From Discarded Drives

A recent internal audit at NASA, the U.S. space agency, found significant weakness in the way the agency disposes of IT equipment, including evidence that used hard drives containing sensitive NASA data may have been sold to the public on the secondhand market. The audit focused on the Johnson an...

Wikleaks struggles back online at new Domain/ Web-address !

Wikileaks is struggling to return at a new web address, wikileaks.ch, after hoster EveryDNS.net threw in the towel in the face of a sustained distributed denial of service DDoS attack. This too appears to have gone down intermittently, whether from service overload or a new DDoS. A ping to the...

Pakistan Cyber Army Super Moderator Adil got arrested by FIA, Next may be Indishell !

PCA Pakistan Cyber Army Super Moderator Adil got arrested for hacking into president of pakistan website. Also govt of Pakistan to contact interpol to arrest indian hackers Especially ICA/Indishell who attacked pakistani govt websites. The Federal Investigation Agency's FIA Lahore Cyber Crime Win...

Experts Warn of Growing Data Theft as Government Lags in Cybersecurity

It will take several more years for the government to fully install high-tech systems to block computer intrusions. This prolonged timeline enables criminals to become more adept at stealing sensitive data, experts say. As the Department of Homeland Security DHS methodically works to secure the...

PayPal Drops Wikileaks, Denies DDoS Attack

Paypal confirmed on Monday that it “permanently restricted” the account used by Wikileaks, citing a violation of its Acceptable Use Policy. The action was just the latest by government and private sector organizations in response to the recent publication of leaked diplomatic cables from the U.S...

Indishell.in Locked By Domain Provider on complaint of Government Authorities !

Indishell.in Locked By Domain Provider on complaint of Government Authorities ! Email Send Via Domain Provider to Indishell Owner : On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, [email protected] [email protected] wrote: Hello, Dear Customer . We have Received a Complaint From The Government...

CBI Website Hacked by Pakistani Cyber Army, NIC Security Questioned

The recent hacking of the Central Bureau of Investigation's CBI website by a group called the 'Pakistani Cyber Army' has raised concerns about the security measures of servers maintained by the National Informatics Centre NIC. The NIC is responsible for government server maintenance. While the NI...

Pakistan.gov.pk is downed by max11

Pakistan.gov.pk is downed by Max11 Website link: We Got this news By a Email from MAX11 Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post...

Cambodian Govt Website Hacked By Indishell

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CBI Website Hacked by Pakistani Cyber Army

In a major embarrassment, the website of India's premier investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI, was hacked tonight by a group identifying themselves as the "Pakistani Cyber Army." The CBI homepage displayed a message from the Pakistani Cyber Army, warning the Indian Cyber...

Wikileaks: Uncle Sam Was Warned

The Pentagon says the leak of diplomatic cables was an unforeseen consequence of its policy to encourage information sharing. That’s nonsense. When it comes to its failure to protect classified data, Uncle Sam’s been warned before. U.S. politicians, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,...

Stuxnet Code Now Available to Hackers, Posing Major Threat to Infrastructure

According to a report from Sky News, the Stuxnet worm has already been traded on the black market. The report does not specify whether this refers to the source code or binary samples. British security specialists now fear that terrorists could use the worm to attack critical infrastructure. The...

Gary McGraw on Cyber War, Cyber FUD and Rhetoric

Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the current climate of FUD and rhetoric surrounding cyber war and cyber espionage, the state of software security in the government and military and the potential need for a software Cash for Clunkers program. Show notes: Cyberwarmongering and...

Infected Web sites double in 2010 : A Report

The number of Web sites infected with malware has doubled from a year ago to more than 1.2 million, according to a study released today by Internet security company Dasient. Not only are social-media sites getting targeted, but sites of larger government agencies increasingly are hit, including t...

CVE-2010-3916

Unspecified vulnerability in JustSystems Ichitaro and Ichitaro Government allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3915...

CVE-2010-3915

Unspecified vulnerability in JustSystems Ichitaro and Ichitaro Government allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3916...

Code injection

Unspecified vulnerability in JustSystems Ichitaro and Ichitaro Government allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3915...

Code injection

Unspecified vulnerability in JustSystems Ichitaro and Ichitaro Government allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3916...

CVE-2010-3916

Consolidated data from the connected docs show JustSystems Ichitaro (including Ichitaro Government) is affected by multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2010-3915 and CVE-2010-3916) that can be triggered by opening a crafted document. The OpenVAS entries describe these as remote cod...