Missouri Governor Doesn’t Understand Responsible Disclosure

The Missouri governor wants to prosecute the reporter who discovered a security vulnerability in a states website, and then reported it to the state. The newspaper agreed to hold off publishing any story while the department fixed the problem and protected the private information of teachers arou...

Knoxville Ransomware Attack Leads to IT Network Shutdown

The city of Knoxville, Tenn. is reeling from a ransomware attack that knocked the city’s network offline and prevented police officers from responding to non-life-threatening traffic crashes. The incident occurred Wednesday and shuttered systems until Thursday. Also impacted was the city’s intern...

California Needlessly Reduces Privacy During COVID-19 Pandemic

This one isn't even related to contact tracing: On March 17, 2020, the federal government relaxed a number of telehealth-related regulatory requirements due to COVID-19. On April 3, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-43-20 the Order, which relaxes various telehealth...

Akamai Attends The Massachusetts Clean Energy Preview with Governor Baker

On January 22 - the day after the 2020 Massachusetts State of the Commonwealth speech - Akamai's Sustainability team participated in a clean energy legislative preview with Governor Baker and Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Theoharides of Massachusetts, Ceres, and other key business...

iPhone FaceTime Vulnerability

This is kind of a crazy iPhone vulnerability: it's possible to call someone on FaceTime and listen on their microphone -- and see from their camera -- before they accept the call. This is definitely an embarrassment, and Apple was right to disable Group FaceTime until it's fixed. But it's hard to...

Apple Disables Group FaceTime Following Major Privacy Glitch

Apple has made Group FaceTime temporarily unavailable following a major flaw discovered on Monday evening. The bug allows anyone with iOS to FaceTime other iOS users and listen in on their private conversations – without the user on other end rejecting or accepting the call. The bug makes use of ...

Jon Kyl Will Take McCain's Senate Seat

The governor of Arizona announced Tuesday that Jon Kyl will replace the Senate seat vacated by the late John McCain. He may now further push to regulate tech giants like Facebook...

Georgia Governor Vetoes Controversial Hack-Back Bill

Recognizing the concerns of tech giants and security researchers alike, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has vetoed a controversial “hack-back” bill that would have allowed companies in the state to perform offensive cyber-actions in the face of an attack. “Certain components of the legislation have led ...

Pro-ISIS group hacks Ohio Governor’ site with anti-Trump message

By Waqas Team System DZ, a pro-ISIS Daesh hacking group from Algeria is back in the news. This time the group has targeted the government of United States and defaced several Ohio State websites including the official website of Governor John Kasich. The hackers left a deface page along with a...

Governor of Poker 2 - OFFLINE - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Governor of Poker 2 - OFFLINE published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

a flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Direct-IO implementation. This could have allowed a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. CVE-2007-6716, Important - when running ptrace in 31-bit mode on an IBM S/390 or IBM System z kernel, a local unprivileged user could cause a denial of...

NIST, Maryland Plan New Cybersecurity Center

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST announced plans Tuesday to break ground on a new center that will be committed to cybersecurity research. The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will be built near NIST’s Gaithersburg, Md., campus in hopes of strengthening the...

Minnesota Man Faces Prison for Hacking Neighbor's WiFi

Animosity between neighbors has landed a Minnesota man in serious legal trouble. Vincent Ardolf of Blaine, Minn., is facing decades in prison after pleading guilty to hacking his neighbor's WiFi, distributing child pornography, and threatening the Vice President of the United States. Ardolf halte...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0972 centos4 x86_64

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0972 centos4 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0972 centos4 i386

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0972 centos4 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2007:078)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : When SELinux hooks are enabled, the kernel could allow a local user to cause a DoS crash via a malformed file stream that triggers a NULL pointer derefernece CVE-2006-6056. Multiple buffer overflows in the 1 read and 2...