EU, U.S., and NATO Approve New Plans to Combat Cybercrime

Over the past three days, the European Union, the U.S., and NATO have approved new plans to combat cybercrime. On Monday, the European Commission announced its proposals to develop three systems aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for citizens and businesses. First, the E.U. plans to establish a...

Image Of the Day: The Internet Hijack That Wasn't?

Reports surfaced last week about an incident dating back to April, 2010 that involved the suspicious rerouting of Internet traffic through infrastructure belonging to a telecommunications carrier in China. Originally reported within technical circles in April, the incident simmered within the sma...

New Bill Would Give DHS New Power Over Private Networks

The latest in what has become a long line of legislation introduced in the House and the Senate in 2010 that attempts to address the country’s computer security shortcomings is a new measure brought forward by Rep. Bennie Thompson that would, among other things, allow the to force certain private...

Google Launches Phishing Alert Service

In late September, Google announced Google Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators -- a tool that enables Autonomous System AS owners to receive notifications for malicious content found on their networks. For example, ISPs that host thousands of sites but don't directly control what's...

HP Systems Insight Control Detection

HP Systems Insight Control implements infrastructure management and has the ability to deploy, migrate, monitor, control, and optimize IT infrastructure through a management console. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid50539; scriptversion"1.7";...

HP Systems Insight Dynamics Detection

HP Systems Insight Dynamics is a infrastructure life cycle management suite that allows you to adjust, provision, and modify many different aspects of infrastructure. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid50540; scriptversion"1.9"; scriptcvsdate"Date:...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhpki security and enhancement update

Updated rhpki-ca, rhpki-common, and rhpki-util packages that fix three security issues and add several enhancements are now available for Red Hat Certificate System 7.3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste...

Europe tests cyber defences against hackers

BRUSSELS AFP – European computer guards battled Thursday against a simulated attempt by hackers to bring down critical Internet services in the first pan-continental test of cyber defences. All 27 of the European Union's member nations as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland took part in the...

Search Engine Finds Vulnerable SCADA Systems

UPDATED: ICS-CERT, the emergency response team for industrial control systems, has warned companies that run SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software that the systems running it may be easily discovered using a free Web based search engine dubbed Shodan. The warning came in the for...

FBI Arrest Over 100, Uncovers Cyber Crime Ring

The FBI announced last week that it had busted a major international cyber crime network after arresting more than 90 suspected members of the ring in the US alone. The FBI said that the suspects worked as so-called mules for hackers, who were based in Eastern Europe and used malware to hack US...

Canada Aims to Strengthen Cyber Defense with $90 Million Security Plan

Canada released its Cybersecurity Strategy this month, emphasizing the immense challenge of protecting government and corporate computer systems. “There is no simple way to detect, identify, and recover from attackers who cannot be seen or heard, who leave no physical evidence behind them, and wh...

Overlooked Old Vulnerabilities Lead to Major Data Breaches, Says TrustWave

A recent report suggests that focusing too much on new security threats might make companies overlook older, more commonly exploited vulnerabilities. The report by TrustWave is based on data from over 1,900 penetration tests and more than 200 data breach investigations for clients like American...

ToorCon: New Apps, Old Infrastructure Make Toxic Brew

In a variety of ways, experts at this weekend’s ToorCon Conference warned that the tidal wave of new devices and Web based services is straining an already aging Internet infrastructure, with privacy and security as the first victims. Call it the ‘schizophrenia of now’: a tidal wave of new...

Behind Facebook 'Breach': New Apps, Old Infrastructure

A report of a massive ‘privacy breach’ at Facebook reveals, instead, the rickety underpinnings of the modern Internet straining at the demands of new applications. When the Wall Street Journal broke a story on Monday about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook, all the elements were in place for a...

Security Firms Scramble For SCADA Talent After Stuxnet

Three months after the world first learned of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, insiders say that there’s a scramble to find and hire engineers with knowledge of both security and the industrial control systems that were Stuxnet’s intended target. Anti virus companies admit their research teams wer...

Day-Con

Dayton, Ohio When I say “Dayton,Ohio,” what image comes to mind? Hacking, right? If not, then you’ve never been to Day-Con, the annual Ohio-based hacker con now in its fourth year. This year’s Day-Con is scheduled for October 22nd and 23rd, with three days of training preceding the main conferenc...

U.S. Wants "Cyber Shield" for NATO

The U.S. and its NATO allies should build a ‘cyber shield’ to protect against future attacks, the Pentagon’s 2 man said in a speech in Brussels. A senior official at the Department of Defense urged the U.S.’s European allies to erect a “Cyber Shield” to protect NATO members against Internet based...

Cisco IOS MPLS Forwarding Infrastructure Denial of Service Vulnerability - Cisco Systems

Cisco IOS Software Multi Protocol Label Switching MPLS Forwarding Infrastructure MFI is vulnerable to a denial of service DoS attack from specially crafted packets. Only the MFI is affected by this vulnerability. Older Label Forwarding Information Base LFIB implementation, which is replaced by MF...

Fedora Update for zabbix FEDORA-2010-12752

Check for the Version of zabbix OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for zabbix FEDORA-2010-12752 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Thumb Drive Attack in 2008 Compromised Classified U.S. Networks

A senior official at the Department of Defense is talking publicly about a 2008 security breach that he claims compromised classified intelligence networks used by the U.S. military. Classified networks used by the U.S. military were the target of a successful attack by a foreign nation in 2008,...