US Navy's Nuclear Reactor System Administrator Arrested on Hacking Charges

The United States charged two men for their involvement in a conspiracy to hack into the computer systems of dozens of government and commercial organizations, including the U.S. Navy and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency NGA, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tulsa. On Monday, the...

Congress to Consider Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill

The National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013 would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to better protect the country against potentially destructive cyber attacks targeting national utilities and other critical infrastructure systems. The House Subcommittee on...

DHS Warns of Schneider Electric ClearSCADA Vulnerability

The Department of Homeland Security is warning the maintainers of industrial control systems ICS about a remotely exploitable uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s ClearSCADA software. Schneider Electric says that it has developed a new version of ClearSCADA that...

[Suricata 1.4.7] Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine

The Suricata Engine is an Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine. This engine is not intended to just replace or emulate the existing tools in the industry, but will bring new ideas and technologies to the field. OISF is part of and funded by the Department of...

IG Report Shows DHS Making Progress, But Still Has Room to Improve on Information Security

Although there are still a number of issues that need to be addressed with the Department of Homeland Security’s information security efforts, the department is improving in many areas and making strong progress toward implementing better security controls, a new report from the Inspector General...

Department of Energy Susceptible to Attack

An audit of the Department of Energy has shown that 29 new weaknesses emerged on the agency’s networks this year in addition to 10 existing that the DoE failed to fix after a 2012 audit. The audit, undertaken by the Office of Inspector General and the Office of Audits and Inspections, revealed...

DHS and FBI Warn About Android Security Threats

The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are warning police and fire departments as well as emergency medical service providers and other security personnel that out-of-date Android devices pose a serious security risk to those organizations. The warning came via an unclassified memo...

Norwich University Receives $9.9 M for Cybersecurity Research

Norwich University, a small military college nestled in the Green Mountains of Vermont, secured another round of funding for cybersecurity research this week. The grant, $9.9 million in federal funds, will feed into a project that ensures groups in the private and public sector can better plan fo...

[Suricata v1.4.4] Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine

The Suricata Engine is an Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine. This engine is not intended to just replace or emulate the existing tools in the industry, but will bring new ideas and technologies to the field. OISF is part of and funded by the Department of...

Anonymous hackers exposes details of U.S FEMA contractors

Anonymous hackers claimed yesterday that they have broken into a server used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA and leaked the database password : fema includes - names, addresses and other information of FEMA contractors, private defense contractors, federal agents and local...

Anonymous hackers exposes details of U.S FEMA contractors

Anonymous hackers claimed yesterday that they have broken into a server used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA and leaked the database password : fema includes - names, addresses and other information of FEMA contractors, private defense contractors, federal agents and local...

ICS, SCADA Attacks Targeted and Disruptive

Honeypots and honeynets have long been used as enticements to lure hackers into a false network in order to study attacks. While long a favorite of many high-end enterprises and security researchers studying attacks against traditional IT infrastructures, a number of industrial control system...

[Suricata 1.4.2] Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine

TheSuricata Engine is an Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine. This engine is not intended to just replace or emulate the existing tools in the industry, but will bring new ideas and technologies to the field. OISF is part of and funded by the Department of Homela...

Obama Expands Surveillance to Critical Infrastructure

A little-known policy through which the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security offered prosecutorial immunity to companies that helped the U.S. military monitor Internet traffic on the private networks of defense contractors has reportedly been expanded by Executive Order to inclu...

Java enabled browsers are highly vulnerable

Oracle has released emergency patches multiple of times in recent months for Java for one after another set of vulnerabilities. About 100 million computers reported to be vulnerable to unauthorized access via different flaw in Java software. Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT already warne...

HP LaserJet Security flaw allows remote data access

A critical vulnerability discovered in certain LaserJet Pro printers that could give remote attackers access to sensitive data. Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Response Team recently issued a vulnerability note warning that HP LaserJet Professional printers contain a telnet debug shell whi...

HP LaserJet Security flaw allows remote data access

A critical vulnerability discovered in certain LaserJet Pro printers that could give remote attackers access to sensitive data. Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Response Team recently issued a vulnerability note warning that HP LaserJet Professional printers contain a telnet debug shell whi...

HP, CERT Warn of Critical Hole in LaserJet Printers

Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Response Team is warning today that some printers manufactured by Hewlett-Packard, including 10 of its LaserJet Professional printers, have a security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely access data. According to CERT, the problem stems fr...

FBI Memo Shows Hackers Accessed Commercial HVAC Systems

An FBI memo says cyber intruders took advantage of weak credentialing in an industrial control system to gain control of a New Jersey air conditioning company’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning units. The cyber alert was issued July 23, 2012 but did not come to light until being posted...

Team Ghostshell Allegedly Dumps 1.6 M Aerospace, Nanotechnology Records

Hacktivist collective Team Ghostshell is claiming this morning to have spilled 1.6 million accounts from a handful of companies in the aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education and government realm, a hack the group deems Project White Fox. The group claims White Fox is its “final stand”...