DHS Investing $40 Million for Cybersecurity Research !

Insider threats, botnets and malware, and assay to abutment the Comprehensive Civic Cyber Initiative CNCI are amid areas of cybersecurity advance the Department of Homeland Aegis DHS will accomplish in budgetary year 2011. The DHS Science and Technology Homeland Aegis Advanced Assay Projects Bure...

Fedora Update for myproxy FEDORA-2011-0512

Check for the Version of myproxy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for myproxy FEDORA-2011-0512 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

DHS: $40m To Research Next Big Thing in Cyber Security

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a call for proposals this week in a $40m program to encourage research and development in a wide range of topics related to cyber security: from designing more resilient software, to alternatives to passwords and CAPTCHA technology to prevent...

Fedora Web Site Hacked, But the Servers Undamaged !

An attacker who had credentials and the use of taxpayer Fedora Fedora server, but the project leaders say the assailants apparently managed to compromise any software or servers. An attacker has attempted to compromise the servers for the Fedora Project, the community version of Red Hat Enterpris...

NATO networks vulnerable to cyber threat !

BRUSSELS AFP - NATO's military networks are not fully protected against cyber threats and the alliance must make good on a promise to erect a virtual wall in 2012, a defense official U.S. says Tuesday top. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn warned after a two-day visit to Brussels that...

Apple Hires New Security Chief

Apple has hired a software security expert to head up its growing internal security group. The company has hired David Rice, a former National Security Agency analyst and consultant on security issues, according to reports. Rice is currently the director of policy reform at the U.S. Cyber...

CIO said - London Olympics Will Be 'ready' For Cyber-attacks !!

London Olympics will be well prepared for attempted cyber attack, according to CIO Gerry Pennell London 2012. Speaking in London to start in 2012, and Atos Origin IT testing organization, Technology Lab, Pennell said the attacks at the Olympics - is also trying to overthrow the Games, to influenc...

CVE-2010-4432

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Transportation Manager component in Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite 5.5.06, 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to UI Infrastructure...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Transportation Manager component in Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite 5.5.06, 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to UI Infrastructure...

CVE-2010-4432

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Transportation Manager component in Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite 5.5.06, 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to UI Infrastructure...

Hackers will not be deterred by UK cyber defences !

Military "cyber weaponry" will become commonplace this century, but it will be unlikely to deter attacks by "hacktivists" and criminal gangs, and could easily be used for state-sponsored cyber attacks instead, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns. The British authors o...

New York Times: Stuxnet A Joint US-Israeli Operation

Details of the Stuxnet worm’s origins and functioning have been seeping into the media, tidbit by intriguing tidbit, since last Summer, when news of the worm went mainstream. But a new exclusive from the New York Times breaks the Stuxnet story wide open, confirming oft-cited theories that it was ...

Cyber criminals to be more aggressive in 2011 !

New Delhi: With the growing diversity of operating systems among companies, and the increasing use of mobile devices, cyber criminals will put a new spin on social engineering by 'malware campaign' under which they will bombard recipients with email that drop virus downloaders. According to an...

Experts Discuss Stuxnet's Long-Term Impact on Cybersecurity

Stuxnet has both fascinated and horrified the cybersecurity community throughout 2010. Its multiple zero-day exploits, stealth capabilities, and precise control over industrial machinery mark it as a prime example of advanced cyber threats. Stuxnet represents both a nightmare and a dream for...

Understanding the Dangers of Stuxnet in Industrial Control Systems

Stuxnet is a sophisticated virus specifically designed to attack supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA systems manufactured by Siemens, a German industrial giant. These systems are commonly used to manage water supplies, power plants, and other industrial facilities, making the worm...

VMware Tools Update OS Command Injection

VMware Tools update OS Command Injection ======================================== 1. Advisory Information Advisory ID: BONSAI-2010-0110 Date published: Thu Dec 9, 2010 Vendors contacted: VMware Release mode: Coordinated release 2. Vulnerability Information Class: Injection Remotely Exploitable: Y...

Stuxnet Virus Could Threaten U.S. Infrastructure, Warns DHS Official

The computer virus Stuxnet, which some experts believe was created specifically to target Iran's nuclear facilities, could also threaten U.S. infrastructure, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official. "That virus focused on specific software implementations, and those softwar...

Stuxnet Code Now Available to Hackers, Posing Major Threat to Infrastructure

According to a report from Sky News, the Stuxnet worm has already been traded on the black market. The report does not specify whether this refers to the source code or binary samples. British security specialists now fear that terrorists could use the worm to attack critical infrastructure. The...

Wikileaks, Dodging DDoS, Bounces Back to Amazon

The Web site of Wikileaks was moving quickly to stay out of the way of large scale denial of service attacks on Sunday and Monday, following the release of a trove of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables. The controversial site, which has spent months trying to find a home secure from government...

Remotely Access Devices Behind Firewalls, NAT or Mobile Gateways using YALER

Sometimes you got to access devices that are behind a firewall or protected networks. You could do that via VPNs etc. You can also use Yaler, that requires minmal setup! All it takes is a few lines of code make your embedded system or mobile device accessible behind a firewall, a NAT or a mobile...