U.S. based Cloud Hosting providers contribute 44% of Malware distribution

U.S. has the top Security Agencies like NSA, FBI to tackle cyber crime and terrorism with their high profile surveillance technologies, but even after that U.S is proudly hosting 44% of the entire cloud based malware distribution. With the enhancement in Internet technology, Cloud computing has...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: python-libcloud-0.13.3-1.fc20

libcloud is a client library for interacting with many of the popular cloud server providers. It was created to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services that it supports...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: python-libcloud-0.13.3-1.fc18

libcloud is a client library for interacting with many of the popular cloud server providers. It was created to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services that it supports...

U.S. District Court Judge Rules NSA Metadata Collection Likely Violates Fourth Amendment

A United States District Court judge has ruled that the bulk metadata collection program maintained by the National Security Agency for years now likely is unconstitutional. The judge, ruling on a pair of law suits that claimed the NSA’s methods violated users’ privacy and civil rights, said that...

CVE-2013-1812

The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via 1 a large XRDS document or 2 an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack...

CVE-2013-1812

The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via 1 a large XRDS document or 2 an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack...

CVE-2013-1812

The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via 1 a large XRDS document or 2 an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: php-symfony2-Security-2.2.10-1.fc18

Security provides an infrastructure for sophisticated authorization systems, which makes it possible to easily separate the actual authorization logic f rom so called user providers that hold the users credentials. It is inspired by the Java Spring framework...

Twitter Implements Perfect Forward Secrecy

Twitter took another step toward not only securing the privacy of its users’ communication over the social network, but in warding off the prying eyes of government surveillance with the implementation of Perfect Forward Secrecy. The technology thwarts the efforts of anyone who may be collecting...

MIRcon 2013 – Day 2 Highlights

Thanks for another wonderful MIRcon®, everyone! It's been an honor to bring together so many leading minds in cybersecurity, and to foster conversations about what we can all do to safeguard the information and innovationson which so much of us rely on. The second and final day of MIRcon 2013...

Microsoft Windows AutoRuns LSA Providers

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Microsoft Windows AutoRuns Network Providers

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NSA's Alexander Appeals For Threat Information Sharing

WASHINGTON– While Congress and the technology community are still debating and discussing the intelligence gathering capabilities of NSA revealed in recent months, the agency’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, is not just defending the use of these existing tools, but is pitching the idea of shari...

Microsoft's Social network Yammer vulnerable to OAuth Bypass hack

Yammer, is the Enterprise Social Network service that was launched in 2008 and sold to Microsoft in 2012. Yammer is a secure, private social network for your company. Yammer is used for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups, making ...

FBI using malware to turn your Android into surveillance device for Spying

It's not the new facts that the FBI has used hacking methods in the past to spy on suspected criminals, including keyloggers and remotely turning on the microphones in mobile phones, in order to spy on suspected criminals. Computer viruses and spyware are an unavoidable part of life. You can...

IPMI Vulnerabilities on BMCs expose servers to attack

Baseboard management controllers, embedded computers present in most servers, are vulnerable to a half dozen critical vulnerabilities that could enable an attacker to gain remote control over the host machine. The vulnerabilities are in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI protocol...

Agencies to report progress with FedRAMP

The FedRAMP PMO recently conducted webinars on April 23 and 25 regarding Agencies requirement to report their progress on compliance with FedRAMP. The discussion covered the FedRAMP progress to date, the reporting requirements and process for moving services to FedRAMP authorized cloud service...

WordPress Sites Targeted by Mass Brute-force Botnet Attack

US-CERT is aware of an ongoing campaign targeting the content management software WordPress, a free and open source blogging tool and web publishing platform based on PHP and MySQL. All hosting providers offering WordPress for web content management are potentially targets. Hackers reportedly are...

U.S. and Russia–Not China–Lead List of Malicious Hosting Providers

China has become the go-to bogeyman behind every cyber attack or malware campaign, but if you’re looking for the most malicious hosting providers on the Web, you won’t find any of the top 10 in China. In fact, the United States and Russia have many more bad hosting providers in the top 20 than...

NSA Director Alexander: US Building Cyberattack Teams

More rhetoric is coming out of Washington regarding the use of malware as an auxiliary weapon to bombs and bullets. National Security Agency leader Gen. Keith Alexander told a House Armed Services Committee yesterday that his new Cyber Command will be ready to retaliate should the United States...