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...

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...

Public-Private Partnerships Form at Cybercrime Summit

A who’s who confab of government, corporate and civic leaders from the around the world has convened in Dallas this week at the East West Institute’s Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit to discuss the need for wider public-private partnerships to make the Internet safer. Read the full article. The Las...

Private sector relations should be job one for cyber security czar

Whoever is brave enough to fill the soon-to-be-created cybersecurity czar position will find a rather large pile of challenges waiting. Among them will be dealing with a confused and argumentative Congress, doing a full-scale assessment of the country’s critical infrastructure and reaching out to...

The cybersecurity mess on the White House front steps

If President Obama thinks fixing the broken U.S. economy is a challenge, and ending the ground wars in the Middle East a conundrum, wait until he gets around to tackling cybersecurity. Obama must reverse the abject lack of any sort of meaningful coordinated defense against intensifying and...