Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan

Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan Japan's legislature has approved a bill revising the nation's copyright law to add criminal penalties for downloading copyrighted material or backing up content from a DVD. The penalties will come into effect in...

Assange's Asylum In The Balance, Researcher Warns Ecuador's Deliberations Are Vulnerable To Online Snooping

With Wikileaks founder Julian Assange anxiously awaiting word from the government of Ecuador on his request for political asylum, a security researcher warns that the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is handling the Assange asylum request, is using a video conferencing system that is...

AutoCAD Worm Stealing Designs, Blueprints

Security researchers have come across a new worm that is meant specifically to steal blueprints, design documents and other files created with the AutoCAD software. The worm, known as ACAD/Medre.A, is spreading through infected AutoCAD templates and is sending tens of thousands of stolen document...

Syrian Dissidents Hit By Another Wave of Targeted Attacks

One of the attackers who has been targeting Syrian anti-government activists with malware and surveillance tools has returned and upped the ante with the use of the BlackShades RAT, a remote-access tool that gives him the ability to spy on victims machines through keylogging and screenshots. The...

Civil Liberties Groups Wary As Little Known UN Body Seeks Greater Role In Regulating Internet

A little known United Nations body, The International Telecommunications Union ITU, is quietly making moves that would give that U.N. and its 192 member-states increased control of the Internet according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. An internal ITU planning document leaked to the Web...

Phil Zimmermann Returns With Silent Circle Voice and Data Privacy

If you use encryption products to protect your data or communications, you owe a debt of gratitude to Phil Zimmermann. Now, Zimmermann is aiming to collect on that debt with his new company, Silent Circle, a startup that will provide secure phone, email and SMS communications. Zimmermann has been...

Chris Soghoian on Lessons from the Bin Laden Raid and Cyberwar

Chris Soghoian has made a name for himself as a security and privacy researcher and has been the bane of government agencies and organizations prone to being somewhat less than upfront about their security and privacy practices. In this video from the Personal Democracy Forum in New York this wee...

Pressure Mounts For Cybersecurity Bill As Negotiations Stall

A joint letter from some of Washington D.C.’s leading minds in the areas of defense and diplomacy is urging Congress to pass a cyber security bill in some form this year, saying that the U.S. is urgently in need of a new policy and ill-prepared for cyber attacks. The letter, dated June 6, was...

Anonabees 'SpexSecurity' Appear, Leak Data On Thousands, Disappear

A new Anonymous-styled hacktivist group, SpexSecurity, has surfaced and then vanished, but not before allegedly siphoning the personal information of over 100,000 residents of a Tennessee town, including individuals’ e-mail passwords, social security numbers and birth dates. Details of the hack...

Anonymous takes down MTNL website

Anonymous India takes down MTNL website The hacker-group Anonymous has struck again in India. This time the victim is the MTNL website. The group posted on their website, saying, "We are against Internet Cencorship. Instead of blocking few URLs the ISP blocked the whole domain of various file...

EZEIP3. 0 multi-page upload validation vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Modify the IE browser security settings, the modulation is the highest, however, prohibit the js execution. 2. Open the Modify upload Type page, add aspx type, click Save, and then open the upload page to upload There is a problem of the upload Type page: http://www.XXX.com/...

Financial Industry Needs Government Supoport with Security, Not Regulation

Regulation is not the answer. That’s what the CISO of Regions Bank, Michele B. Cantley repeatedly responded with when asked what the government can do to improve the financial sector’s current security climate in a hearing hosted by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and...

Flame Malware Raises Need for Open Talk on Use of Cyberweapons

The discovery of the Flame malware has raised a number of questions, some mundane, some interesting and many unanswerable at this point. But the point that’s most interesting also is the one that likely will go unaddressed for the foreseeable future, and that is, the need for a serious, open...

Keylogging Version of Anti-Censorship Software Simurgh Found

Citizen Lab found a compromised version of an anti-censorship tool that’s popular in Iran and Syria circulating with a backdoor installed. The software, Simurgh, is described by Citizen Lab as a stand-alone proxy software for Microsoft Windows users. It was used predominantly by Iranians in the...

House Hearing to Address Capital Market Threats

The House Committee on Financial Services is hosting a hearing tomorrow in which they will explore the various cyber threats targeting capital markets and government sponsored enterprises. Entitled “Cyber Threats to Capital Markets and Corporate Accounts,” the hearing in front of the Committee on...

Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing Source Code From Federal Reserve

A 33 year-old Chinese man pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal Court to stealing proprietary source code used by the U.S. Federal Reserve to help track billions of dollars in government transfers that occur daily, according to a report by Reuters. Bo a.k.a. “Bryan” Zhang was employed as a contract work...

Flame Malware: Boring, Bloated and Yet Still Effective

Let us stipulate that governments of all political affiliations are trying to steal information from one another. This is called espionage and it has been happening for thousands of years and the only things that have changed are the tactics and the technology. The discovery of the Flame...

Serco: 'Sophisticated' Attack On U.S. Govt. Pension Plan Nets Info On 123k

Serco Inc., a well-known contractor working with the U.S. government, announced that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that exposed data on 123,000 civil employees of the Federal government and their families, including names, addresses and social security numbers taken from the company...

What's the Meaning of This: Flame Malware

From all indications, it would appear that attackers are continuing to attack and malware authors are carrying on writing malware. The latest bit of evidence to support these conclusions is the discovery of the Flame malware, which, initial analyses show, is an advanced data-stealing tool that is...

Howard Schmidt Answered the Bell

There’s an old saying that all things end badly or else they wouldn’t end. It sounds nice, but it’s not necessarily true. Plenty of things simply end. The useful career of the Police, Man Vs. Food and highway A1A all ended without any catastrophic effects or gnashing of teeth. Now, with the end o...