DigiNotar Voluntarily Files Bankruptcy

DigiNotar, the embattled Dutch certificate authority at the center of a global scandal after issuing hundreds of forged digital certificates has filed for voluntary bankruptcy today, according to a press release from parent company VASCO. DigiNotar will cease business operations and will be manag...

Apple Seeking Professional To Fill New 'Keep Employees From Losing Priceless Mobile Prototypes In Local Pubs' Position

In the latest edition of “open positions that should have been filled three years ago,” Apple Computer is looking to hire a Product Security Manager, the New York Times is reporting. The company advertised the new “Manager, Product Security” position on its Web site, saying that the candidate wil...

Study: Operation Shady Rat Revealed

Global 2000 companies can be split into two categories, according to the author of a new white paper from McAfee PDF; those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t yet know. “The only organizations that are exempt from this threat,” writes the paper’s author, Dmitri Alperovitch,...

Microsoft to Pay $200,000 for Innovative Defense Technology in Blue Hat Prize Program

LAS VEGAS–In the face of mounting external pressure to begin paying bug bounties, Microsoft is instead launching a new program that will pay a $200,000 top prize to a security researcher who develops the most innovative defensive security technology. The program is designed to “inspire researcher...

Lessons from Chicago: Bad Policy, Not Geopolitics, Enables IP Theft

One thing that CME Group, the company that runs the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, wants to make perfectly clear is that it places a “high value on protecting its intellectual property and trade secrets.” That was the clear message from CME following the arrest of an employee for stealing company...

Pirated Content Sites Hacked Attract Billions Of Years !

Web sites hawking pirated software and other digital goods will attract about 53 million visits per year. This is according to a report PDF released yesterday by MarkMonitor, a company that protects online brands to its corporate clients. The hacking scene of the majority of the 53 billion hits,...

Kerala cyber police closing in on software theft culprits !

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5 IANS The cyber wing of the Kerala Police Wednesday claimed it had got vital clues about the theft of software source codes and intellectual property data from a Kochi-based IT company. The investigation is progressing on the right track, V.K. Ajith Mohan of the police...

Texas Man Indicted for Hacking Eden Prairie Business, Stealing $274,000

A federal indictment unsealed earlier today alleges that a 35-year-old Texas man hacked into the computer network of an Eden Prairie business, stealing approximately $274,000. The indictment, filed in Minneapolis on October 13, 2010, charges Jeremy Parker of Houston, Texas, with one count of...

Top 5 best criminal computer hackers of all time

These hackers are the ones that you've seen in shackles arrested for cybercrimes when they were just getting out of puberty. Some have done it for financial gain others just for fun. 1. Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick is perhaps synonymous with Hacker. The Department of Justice still refers to him as "the...

Microsoft Targets Android with Patent Infringement Allegations

The mobile phone wars became more interesting late on Tuesday when Microsoft publicly claimed for the first time that Google's Android operating system infringes on its intellectual property. According to sources close to the company, Microsoft believes that Android infringes on its patented...

Expert Warns: Cyber Crime Now Operates Like Legitimate Businesses

Today's cybercrime has far-reaching implications for security professionals. Corporate environments are increasingly targeted, with intellectual property becoming a primary focus for criminal activity. According to Uri Rivner, head of new technologies, identity protection, and verification at RSA...

Survey: Information Theft A Bigger Problem than Physical Theft

Anyone who has received “notification” of funky activity on their credit card, or an urgent e-mail plea from the widow of Mobutu Sese Seko won’t be surprised to learn that information theft is a big problem. But a new survey out from Kroll Consulting finds that its also the biggest problem facing...

CVE-2010-1721: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

SQL injection vulnerability in the Intellectual Property aka IProperty or comiproperty component 1.5.3 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in an agentproperties action to index.php...

Joomla iProperty 1.5.3 SQL Injection

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Joomla! Component Intellectual Property 1.5.3 - 'id' SQL Injection

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Joomla! Component Intellectual Property 1.5.3 - id SQL Injection

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Joomla Component com_iproperty 1.5.3 (id) SQL Injection Vulnerability

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Joomla Component com_iproperty 1.5.3 (id) SQL Injection Vulnerability

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Security Programs Focusing Too Much on Compliance, Study Finds

Enterprises are spending huge amounts of money on compliance programs related to PCI-DSS, HIPAA and other regulations, but those funds may be misdirected in light of the priorities of most information security programs, a new study has found. A paper by Forrester Research, commissioned by Microso...

Anatomy of a Targeted, Persistent Attack

A new report published today sheds light on the steps ultra-sophisticated attackers take to gain a foothold inside governments and company networks and remain entrenched in order to steal intellectual property and other data. The bad news is these attacks — including the recent ones on Google,...