Researchers, FBI Warn of Nepal Earthquake Scams

The earthquake that hit Nepal late last month has caused untold damage in the region and kicked off a massive relief and aid effort. Attackers are loathe to let a chance like that go by, and they have concocted a number of schemes to deprive victims of their money and hope for relief funds. Aid...

COSO Framework for Service Organizations and SOC Reporting (Part 1 of 3)

One of the most important reference tools that companies use to establish and evaluate their internal controls is the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations COSO Internal Control - Integrated Framework. Initially published in 1992 the 1992 Framework, the COSO framework has been the most widely use...

NSA Planted Stuxnet-Type Malware Deep Within Hard Drive Firmware

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA may be hiding highly-sophisticated hacking payloads in the firmware of consumer hard drives over the last 15 to 20 years in a campaign, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on thousands of targets’ computers, according to an analysis by Kaspersky labs and...

​Facebook launches ThreatExchange for Sharing Cyber Security Threats

Social Networking giant Facebook has just launched a new platform called ThreatExchange, which is designed to mount a coordinated defense against cybercrime. Many security professionals rely largely on manual methods for collecting, analyzing, and consuming information about latest cyber security...

EC3 Head Paints Bleak Cybercrime Picture

WASHINGTON D.C. – Everyone has the right to privacy, said Troels Oerting, head of the Europol’s European Cybercrime Center EC3, at Georgetown Law’s Cybercrime2020 conference yesterday. However, he went on, if you break your contract with society, that right can be taken away. Oerting noted that i...

Cybercrime Group Preys on Wall Street Insider Information

A criminal hacking group with an innate understanding of how Wall Street moves and what influences stock prices has found a soft spot in more than 100 publicly traded companies and is stealing, among other data, mergers and acquisitions intelligence. The group is homed in on healthcare and...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks UK based Media Websites

Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a pro-hacker group supposed to be aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has again gain media attention by compromising a number of popular news websites and displayed a Thanksgiving popups informing people that they've been hacked. The Forbes, The Independent,...

APT28 — State Sponsored Russian Hacker Group

Nearly a decade-long cyber espionage group that targeted a variety of Eastern European governments and security-related organizations including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO has been exposed by a security research firm. The US intelligence firm FireEye released its latest Advanced...

Russian APT28 Group Linked to NATO, Political Attacks

A Russian APT group tied to ongoing attacks against military and political targets in Eastern Europe and against NATO could also have ties to the MiniDuke espionage campaign uncovered more than a year ago. Dubbed APT28 by FireEye in a report published last night, the Russian hackers have targeted...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: torque-3.0.4-5.fc19

TORQUE Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. TORQUE is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U....

Zero-Day in Bugzilla Exposes Zero-Day Vulnerabilities to Hackers

A critical zero-day vulnerability discovered in Mozilla’s popular Bugzilla bug-tracking software used by hundreds of prominent software organizations, both private and open-source, could expose sensitive information and vulnerabilities of the software projects to the hackers. The critical flaw...

Second jQuery Hack of Week Reported

Update A day after a compromise of the jQuery website was disclosed, the open source JavaScript library is dealing with a second attack. JQuery Foundation board member Ralph Whitbeck confirmed via email to Threatpost that a new compromise was under way and the organization was taking steps to...

Bitcoin Phishing Scam Takes Aim at 400 Organizations

More than 400 organizations were recently targeted by a Bitcoin phishing campaign that intended to con users into disclosing their wallet passwords. According to Proofpoint, a California-based email security firm that recapped the campaign Wednesday, 12,000 messages were recently sent in two wave...

Keeping your restaurant & hospitality Cardholder Data Environment safe

Reports of new credit card data breaches seem to be in the news daily. Recent high profile breaches within major retailers this year should serve as a wake-up call to the restaurant and hospitality industries. As a result of having high volumes of credit card transactions and decentralized securi...

Miniduke APT Campaigh Returns with New Targets, Hacking Tools

The Miniduke advanced persistent threat APT campaign uncovered by researchers at Kaspersky Lab and CrySys Lab in February 2013 is back after a year-long hiatus in which attacks abated almost entirely. While the initial Miniduke operations primarily targeted government organizations in Europe, thi...

Terrorist Group Al-Qaeda Uses New Encryption Softwares After NSA Revelations

Last year, Just after Snowden leaks, the U.S Government warned that NSA surveillance revelations will make harder to track bad guys trying to harm the United States, as disclosures can be helpful to terrorist groups. In response to the NSA revelations, the terrorists at Al-Qaeda have started usin...

Points of Sale Poorly Secured, Facing Sophisticated Attacks

The point-of-sale PoS systems on which financial transactions are conducted at nearly every physical retail location in the U.S. and and beyond are fast becoming a favorite target for sophisticated criminal organizations as well as standalone attackers. The emergence of this trend is unsurprising...

PCI DSS 3.0 ROC Reporting Template Released

Heads up for our PCI customers: the PCI SSC released the "ROC Reporting Template for v3.0" this last weekend and it is available here. This document supports the PCI DSS 3.0 standard and must be used by all QSA organizations to create and submit a Report on Compliance ROC. What does this mean?...

Samsung Knox Vulnerable to Data Intercept

An Israeli security researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Labs claims to have uncovered a serious security flaw in Samsung Knox. Knox is a security- and privacy-centric platform built into certain Samsung devices running Android. The Knox architecture, tailored f...

Gary McGraw on BSIMM-V and Software Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the progress of the BSIMM software security measurement model and how development organizations are addressing the challenges of securing their software. Download: digitalunderground131.mp3...