Poor Patching, Passwords Plague Government Computers

A damning report on the security of government computers paints an unflattering picture of lax or non-existent patching efforts, poor password policies, configuration errors and a general lack of confidence that exposes critical services and systems to attack. The report, “The Federal Government’...

Metadata Program 'Not Uniquely Valuable'

In a mostly friendly and non-confrontational hearing on Tuesday, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent a couple of hours talking to members of the White House-appointed NSA review board about the extent of the agency’s surveillance and the panel’s recommendations for reform. The hearing...

NSA Director to Retain Cyber Command Role

Since its inception in 2009, the U.S. Cyber Command has been run by the director of the National Security Agency. The two organizations are intertwined and even share the same space in Maryland. The continuous leaks of NSA documents this year has led some politicians and critics to argue that the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Company Complaint Email Messages on November 26, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31905 First Published: 2013 November 26 18:16 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a notification regarding a company complaint for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to...

FBI Cyber Division put 'Syrian Electronic Army' Hackers in wanted list

The Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a pro-regime hacker group that emerged during Syrian anti-government protests in 2011, and involved in cyber attacks against western media organizations are now in the FBI's wanted list. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued an alert warning of cyber attac...

Petition Seeks Removal of Alexander as NSA Director

It has been a rough few months for the National Security Agency, and specifically for its director, Gen. Keith Alexander. The leaks of details of NSA surveillance programs by former contractor Edward Snowden have taken over the news cycle this summer and put the agency’s business out in the open...

LulzSec hacker sentenced to 1 year jail & ordered to pay $605,663 in restitution

A second member of hacking group LulzSec - Raynaldo Rivera, 21, of Tempe, Arizona, has been sentenced to 1 year in prison, 13 months of house arrest, and 1,000 hours of community service for hacking into the computers of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Raynaldo who went by Internet names ”neuron” wa...

Russia grants one year asylum to Edward Snowden, The Most wanted man on Earth

Edward Snowden, the former U.S. The intelligence contractor wanted for revealing the National Security Agency's secret program to collect American phone and internet records, left at Moscow airport after Russian authorities granted him temporary asylum for one year. Mr Snowden's lawyer Anatoly...

Congress Warns Section 215 May Not Be Renewed

Incensed at the way that the Department of Justice and the intelligence community have used the controversial section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, members of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday angrily questioned Justice and NSA officials about their surveillance of U.S. citizens and said that...

PlayStation hacker gets year of House Arrest for destroying evidence of Hack

23-year-old Todd Miller, suspected of hacking into Sony’s PlayStation Network, was due to be arrested, will spend a year on house arrest, but not for the hacking. Instead, he was sentenced yesterday in federal court for obstructing a federal investigation because he smashed his computers, halting...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Two Texas Bills Could Shape Mobile Privacy

Two bills introduced in Texas this week could refine mobile privacy in the state and tweak how law enforcement can request sensitive information from cell phones going forward. A press release from the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition TxEPC credits Bryan Hughes, a Republican from the town of...

White House Executive Order on Cyber Security

The tense standoff between an unresponsive Congress and a reluctant critical infrastructure industry has been broken. On February 13, 2013, the President issued an Executive Order that provides initial guidance for the country to confront escalating cyber threats. Finally, we have someone with th...

CISPA Returns back, Forget privacy reforms

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act CISPA will be reintroduced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers R-Mich. and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger D-Md. before the US House next week. CISPA would've allowed any company to give away all the data its collected on...

CISPA Returns back, Forget privacy reforms

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act CISPA will be reintroduced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers R-Mich. and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger D-Md. before the US House next week. CISPA would've allowed any company to give away all the data its collected on...

House Style 0.1.2 File Disclosure

File disclosure vulnerability in House Style Vulnerability Type: File Disclosure For the exploit source code contact DSquare Security sales team...

White House : No evidence of Espionage by Huawei

According to a White House-ordered review, a giant Chinese technology company "Huawei" is not a state-sponsored espionage tool. Huawei Technologies, the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications equipment. The largely classified investigation, which delved into the security risks pose...

Cyber Security Legislation

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: Get Informed and Get Involved on Cyber Legislation. Every October, the National Cyber Security Alliance sponsors National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and a growing number of businesses and institutions are joining the chorus. The White House got in o...

White House Cyberattack Likely Won't Change Anything

So now it’s the White House’s turn. Having taken a swing at just about every other piece of the U.S. government’s network infrastructure, attackers, reportedly based in China, recently targeted a machine on an unclassified network inside the White House Military Office and were able to compromise...