Desktop Viruses Coming to Your TV and Connected Home Appliances

Smart Devices are growing at an exponential rate and so are the threats to them. After your Computers, Servers, Routers, Mobiles and Tablets, now hackers are targeting your Smart TVs, warns Eugene Kaspersky the co-founder and chief executive of Kaspersky Lab. As the increase in the manufactures o...

Hacker's Dome - Gamification the Information Security

When it comes to Information Security, there's a great way to learn, train and keep sharp your skills. This can be done using gamification mechanics to speed up the learning curve and improve retention rate. Capture The Flag competitions use gamification mechanics and represent one of the best wa...

Is It Time for Certified ICS Security Specialists?

The information security field is full of certifications – CompTIA, GIAC, CHE, ISC2 CISSP, CISM, with a vast number of areas and directions within these families. In the industrial space, the most “unsecured” enterprise sector compared to well-established information security practice in most...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Purchase Order Request Email Messages on February 24, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33024 First Published: 2014 February 25 14:09 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a purchase order request for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient ...

Google adds its Chrome apps and extensions to Bug Bounty Program

Google's Vulnerability Reward Program which started in November 2010, offers a hefty reward to the one who find a good vulnerability in its products. Now Google is getting a little more serious about the security of its Chrome Browser and has expanded its Bug Bounty Program to include all Chrome...

'The Hacker News' Magazine - Relaunching New Editions

Dear Readers, After publishing 15 informative editions of 'The Hacker News' magazine in past 2 years; we at THN are again planning to relaunch the new Chapters of 'The Hacker News Magazine'. The Hacker News THN Monthly Magazine is the most comprehensive and informative collection of IT Security,...

NeoBill v0.9-alpha eCommerce <= (RCE/SQLi/LFI) Vulnerabilities

NeoBill v0.9-alpha is suffer from multiple vulnerabilities Usage Info Bllind Exploitation via cURL exploits or HTTP Headers Exploit database separated by exploit 0 0 // type local, remote, DoS, etc. 1 1 1 0 + Site : 1337day.com 0 1 + Support e-mail : submitat1337day.com 1 0 0 1 1 0 I'm KedAns-Dz...

CTF365 Capture The Flag - The Next Generation IT Security Training Platform

For years, the Capture the Flag platform has been a common and very popular part of the hacker convention scene. Teams come from all over the world to show their skill and technique in various competitions. The CTF365 team took that interest, passion and excitement and went to a new level in thei...

CTF365 Capture The Flag - The Next Generation IT Security Training Platform

For years, the Capture the Flag platform has been a common and very popular part of the hacker convention scene. Teams come from all over the world to show their skill and technique in various competitions. The CTF365 team took that interest, passion and excitement and went to a new level in thei...

IT Security Horror Story #2: A Tale of Spooky Hosted Images

Image manipulation madness causes a near disaster for a popular web site. READ MORE…IF YOU DARE -...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $2M to Winners

The bug bounty continues to be turned on its ear. Microsoft began the wave of paying premium money for mitigation technologies via its Blue Hat prizes, and now DARPA has gone all-in to the tune of $2 million for the development of an automated network defense system that not only scans for and...

NIST Publishes Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework

Following an Executive Order issued by U.S. President Barack Obama in February of this year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST yesterday made public a provisional copy of the government’s cybersecurity framework and says it will accept public comment on the draft for the nex...

DDoS Attacks : A Serious unstoppable menace for IT security communities

It should be the busiest day of the year for your business, but your website has just disappeared off the Internet and orders have dried up. If this happens to you, then you likely just become yet another victim of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. By now, everyone who uses the Interne...

DDoS Attacks : A Serious unstoppable menace for IT security communities

It should be the busiest day of the year for your business, but your website has just disappeared off the Internet and orders have dried up. If this happens to you, then you likely just become yet another victim of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. By now, everyone who uses the Interne...

Importance of Logs and Log Management for IT Security

IT Security is the name of the game and no matter how big or small the size of your organization, you will always invest enough on securing certain aspects of your IT network. In many organizations, it starts with monitoring your network for vulnerabilities that may enter the network to access...

Importance of Logs and Log Management for IT Security

IT Security is the name of the game and no matter how big or small the size of your organization, you will always invest enough on securing certain aspects of your IT network. In many organizations, it starts with monitoring your network for vulnerabilities that may enter the network to access...

EHACK : The Largest Information Security Awareness Marathon Globally

More than 9000+ participants enter the Guinness book of World Records for the largest congregation for information Security. E-Hack, world largest Ethical Hacking workshop was organized by InfySEC at SRM University on July 27 and 28,2013 . The expected participant count was 4500+ but on the day o...

[The Burp SessionAuth] Extension for Detection of Possible Privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Normally a web application should identify a logged in user by data which is stored on the server side in some kind of session storage. However, in web application audits someone can often observe that internal user identifiers are transmitted in HTTP requests as parameters or cookies. Applicatio...

What to Look For in a SIEM Solution

Security Information & Event Management SIEM has evolved over the years to become one of the most trusted and reliable solutions for log management, security, and compliance. The demand for SIEM tools is constantly increasing within network and IT security teams. This is due particularly to the...

FBI raided Anonymous Hacker house, who exposed Steubenville Rapists

Another member of the hacker collective Anonymous has been unmasked this week. FBI raided the home of Deric Lostutter in April. Two laptops, flash drives, CD's, an external hard-drive, cell phones and an Xbox were reportedly seized during the raid. Deric Lostutter, a 26-year-old from Winchester, ...