Company Offers Tool To Break iPhone Encryption

ElcomSoft, a Russian security firm, claims that a new encryption cracking tool can decode data encrypted on mobile devices running Apple’s iOS operating system. Elcomsoft says it has developed the first ever commercially available password and encryption cracking tool. The company has made a phon...

ISI (Pakistan) hack email account of Indian Army Major !

ISI Pakistan hack email account of Indian Army Major ! A serving Inter-Services Intelligence ISI officer Major Sameer Ali hacked an Indian Army major's e-mail account in 2010 and extracted many sensitive documents, intelligence sources said. Ali has been named by India in the list of 50 'most...

Exclusive Report : Is Department of Defense (DoD), Pentagon, NASA, NSA is Secure ?

Exclusive Report : Is Department of Defense DoD, Pentagon, NASA, NSA is Secure ? Over the past couple of weeks there has been a series of discussions around why the U.S defense and Intelligence agencies are moving so quickly to adopt cloud computing. Are there any Security Holes in their Security...

Microsoft Release Security Intelligence Report !

Microsoft Release Security Intelligence Report ! The Security Intelligence Report SIR is an investigation of the current threat landscape. It analyzes exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware based on data from over 600 million systems worldwide, as well as internet services, and three Microsoft...

You got owned, Exposure about privacy on facebook !

You got owned, Exposure about privacy on facebook ! If you had any doubts regarding privacy on facebook, here is a list containing hundreds of user and password, how can this be ? Easy, any application that asks for permission can get your credentials! And then do not say that we had not warned :...

Assange says Facebook is spying tool for US intelligence !

Assange says Facebook is spying tool for US intelligence ! WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has branded Facebook an "appalling spying machine". According to Assange, whose WikiLeaks whistle-blowing site has propelled him into the media limelight, US intelligence services have direct acces...

Netherlands-based Rabobank down under DDoS attack !

Netherlands-based Rabobank down under DDoS attack ! The internet and mobile banking services of Netherlands-based Rabobank were crippled by a distributed denial of service attack yesterday. The attack sent the banking services offline but did not affect Australian operations, according to the ban...

Audit Finds FBI Doing a Poor Job with Cyber Investigations

A U.S. Department of Justice audit of the FBI’s ability to investigate cyber intrusions concluded that the agency is not doing an adequate job. The audit, which reviewed 36 field agents in 10 FBI offices across the country found that the agency’s cyber investigations are hampered by difficulties...

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download !

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download ! HES aims at anticipating the challenges of the security world and gathers together underground or amateur security researchers together with professional security expert researchers and technical decision makers. During three days, HES will...

Report Describes Far-Flung Chinese Cyber Espionage Against U.S. Government

The massive campaign of cyber intrusions of U.S. government Web sites by China’s People’s Liberation Army PLA now has a name: “Byzantine Hades,” according to a report Thursday by Reuters. The report says that China has gained the upper hand over the U.S. in the arena of cyberwarfare, developing a...

Report: NSA Looks Into NASDAQ Hack

The National Security Agency has joined in a cyber forensic investigation off a major attack on NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. which operates the NASDAQ stock exchange, according to a report on Wednesday by Bloomberg. As reported by Threatpost, the tech-heavy stock exchange was discovered to be infiltrat...

HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack

Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary, admits that lackluster security at his company played a central role in the breach that led to the release of some 50,000 company emails, but also disputes common understanding and reported details of the hack and the group behind it, going so far as to say there was...

Chief Spy Says U.S. Too Secret About Cyber Threats

A former CIA Director says the U.S. Government is being too secretive about cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Retired four-star General and former CIA Director, Michael Hayden writes in a recent article that Uncle Sam is too quick to classify intelligence about software security holes, preventing th...

VUPEN Security Research - Apple Safari WebKit Iframe Event Handling Remote Use-after-free

VUPEN Security Research - Apple Safari WebKit Iframe Event Handling Remote Use-after-free http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Apple Safari is a web browser developed by Apple. As of February 2010, Safari was the fourth most widely used browser, with 4.45...

VUPEN Security Research - Apple Safari WebKit Block Dimensions Handling Integer Overflow

VUPEN Security Research - Apple Safari WebKit Block Dimensions Handling Integer Overflow http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Apple Safari is a web browser developed by Apple. As of February 2010, Safari was the fourth most widely used browser, with 4.45 ...

Pentagon tightens computer security in wake of WikiLeaks breach !

Top defense and intelligence officials reiterated their commitment to information-sharing at a Senate hearing Thursday, even as they outlined new safeguards to prevent a repeat of the WikiLeaks breach that has led to the release of thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables. T...

SAP Crystal Reports 2008 Directory Traversal

SAP Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application which is used to design and generate reports from various data sources. These sources include databases, spreadsheets, text files, XML files, etc. SAP Crystal Reports installation includes Tomcat Web server and various servlet components ...

U.S. Military's Cyber Chief Warns Of Eroding Technical Prowess

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Military’s top officer in charge of cyber security said that the country must invest more in so-called “STEM” programs – science, technology, engineering and math – to avoid being outflanked in a world where cyber offensive- and defensive operations are the keys to milita...

Nokia under scanner of Indian Intelligence Agency for its Push Email service and SMS !

Department of Telecommunication DOT has been asked by The Intelligence Bureau IB0 to stop the messaging services of Nokia in India until they can be monitored. Once again security concerns have clouded Intelligence department's mind and the incident is not first of its kind. Earlier too similar...

HOLD — HBGary Federal News…

HBGary Federal, the beleagured security startup that has been the target of the online mischief making group Anonymous for the last week said on Monday that it was ceasing operations | its CEO Aaron Barr was stepping down. The consulting firm, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBGary Inc., had been...