Microsoft's Bing And Facebook's Like Button Team Up Against Google !

Microsoft's Bing And Facebook's Like Button Team Up Against Google ! Microsoft has deepened its ties with Facebook by integrating the platform's social network data with the Bing search engine. Under the new partnership, users will be able to view 'likes' and recommendations made by their friends...

Reports: Rustock Born in the USA

U.S. hosting firms accounted for the bulk of the command and control centers for the Rustock botnet, with many firms claiming that they had no idea they were harboring an illegal criminal network on their infrastructure, according to a story in Krebsonsecurity.com. Threatpost reported last week...

Federal Officials Call For Better Privacy, Security Protections Online

SAN FRANCISCO–The Obama administration’s top information security officials hit the stage at the RSA Conference Tuesday, looking to drum up support for several of the president’s key security and privacy initiatives, including a still-nebulous plan for protecting users’ freedom and privacy on the...

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...

Conficker Working Group: Efforts To Fight Botnet A Mixed Bag

A new report from the Conficker Working Group concludes that coordinated efforts to stomp out the botnet were a mixed bag: helping to thwart the worm’s efforts to register Web domains that it used to spread, but failing to remove the worm from infected Windows computers. The report released this...

Mandriva Update for dhcp MDVSA-2011:001 (dhcp)

Check for the Version of dhcp OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for dhcp MDVSA-2011:001 dhcp 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...

Nepal Imposes New Rules on Cyber Cafes to Curb Cyber Crimes

Some 300 internet cafes in Nepal are now under police surveillance following a new government regulation aimed at curbing cyber crimes. According to SSP Rana Bahadur Chand, chief of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division MPCD, cyber cafe users must now present ID cards and register their names,...

CVE-2010-3616

ISC DHCP server 4.2 before 4.2.0-P2, when configured to use failover partnerships, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service communications-interrupted state and DHCP client service loss by connecting to a port that is only intended for a failover peer, as demonstrated by a Nagios...

Design/Logic Flaw

ISC DHCP server 4.2 before 4.2.0-P2, when configured to use failover partnerships, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service communications-interrupted state and DHCP client service loss by connecting to a port that is only intended for a failover peer, as demonstrated by a Nagios...

DHS, NIST, Financial Services Group Form Security Research Partnership

As the finger-pointing and name-calling surrounding the WikiLeaks issue continue in Washington, the White House this week facilitated a cooperative agreement among several key public and private organizations designed to spur joint information security research projects. On Tuesday, the Obama...

Active! mail 6 vulnerable to HTTP header injection

Overview Active! mail 6 from TransWARE Co. contains a HTTP header injection vulnerability. Active! mail 6 from TransWARE Co. is a web-based email software. Active! mail 6 contains a HTTP header injection vulnerability. Taketo Ikeuchi of Hitachi Solutions, Ltd. reported this vulnerability to IPA...

Anti-Phishing Group Targeting Fax-Based Scams

The heyday of faxing may have passed twenty years ago, but scam artists haven’t given up on the old technology, especially when it comes to wheedling personally identifiable information out of unsuspecting office workers. Now a leading anti-phishing group is tackling the problem of fax based...

HP Snags Application Testing Firm Fortify

The drumbeat for more secure application development picked up pace on Tuesday, with news that software giant HP had acquired privately funded Fortify Software, a maker of static code analysis tools, for an undisclosed amount. HP said that Fortify’s static analysis tools will complement its dynam...

Caleb Sima and Andy Chou on Software Security, Quality and Testing

Dennis Fisher talks with Caleb Sima of Armorize and Andy Chou of Coverity about the companies’ new partnership designed to make security and quality code testing simpler and more efficient and the state of software security in general. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

IEEE and Cloud Security Alliance Form Partnership

The Cloud Security Alliance CSA and IEEE are joining forces to ensure that best practices and standards are developed and available to provide security assurance for cloud computing. As a result of this collaboration, CSA and IEEE have been conducting a survey to identify and define the most...

Can Howard Schmidt Make a Difference?

At first glance, the selection of Howard A. Schmidt as the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator looks like little more than a safe and easy choice designed to quiet the critics who for seven months have been howling for action from the Obama administration. But a closer look shows that Schmidt’s...

Redmine vulnerable to cross-site scripting

Overview Redmine contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Redmine is a project management software. Redmine contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Yoshinari Fukumoto of Rakuten, Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information...

Defense Industrial Base information-sharing program a good start

The recent flood of stories on attacks against the electrical grid, various government agencies and other portions of the critical infrastructure has renewed the calls for improvements in federal cybersecurity and, especially, information sharing between the government and the private sector on...

U.S. Should Play Larger Role in Securing Internet, Hathaway Says

In her much anticipated talk, acting senior director for cyberspace by President Obama, Melissa Hathaway generally reviewed what we already knew, and what has been previously reported when it comes to federal cyber security: The White House should coordinate IT security efforts; private sector...

Can social networks foster security?

It’s a departure from the stance that most people are taking these days when it comes to issues of social networking and security, but some industry players are pitching the idea eweek.com that the ever-more-popular communications applications could someday replace more traditional messaging...