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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...

'Six Strikes' System Flags P2P Piracy and Throttles Broadband Connections

The entertainment industry is teaming with five major Internet service providers to this week launch a new Copyright Alert System that will first warn online pirates and then start to strangle bandwidth of repeat offenders. Dubbed “Six Strikes,” the new system began roll out Monday, putting...

Regulator Warns Banks About DDoS Attacks, Encourages Information Sharing

In an alert issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC, Deputy Comptroller for Operational Risk Carolyn G. DuChene warned financial and other critical institutions about the wave of ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting their networks. DuChene is urging the...

Researchers Exploit Cloud Browsers to do Anonymous, Large-Scale Computing

Researchers from two U.S. universities have created a way to anonymously use cloud-based Web browsers to perform large-scale computing tasks – a feat that also demonstrates how hackers might secretly harness massive computing power to launch attacks. Using the MapReduce technique developed by...

Security flaw in 3G could allow anyone to track your smartphone

New privacy threats have been uncovered by security researchers that could allow every device operating on 3G networks to be tracked, according to research from the University of Birmingham with collaboration from the Technical University of Berlin. Researchers said that standard off-the-shelf...

Fedora Update for php-ZendFramework FEDORA-2012-9979

Check for the Version of php-ZendFramework OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for php-ZendFramework FEDORA-2012-9979 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

Cisco Scientific Atlanta D20 and D30 Based Cable Modem Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Cisco Scientific Atlanta cable modems D20 and D30 based products contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input to the web wizard setup web page. An...

Anonymous takes down MTNL website

Anonymous India takes down MTNL website The hacker-group Anonymous has struck again in India. This time the victim is the MTNL website. The group posted on their website, saying, "We are against Internet Cencorship. Instead of blocking few URLs the ISP blocked the whole domain of various file...

P2P Encryption Program now available from PCI Council

The PCI council has updated the Point-to-Point encryption P2PE program requirements PDF. The update impacts merchants, payment applications, point of sale vendors and service providers. As a participating organization of the PCI P2PE task force, providing input into the standard, I wanted to...

Senator Seeks More Info On DOJ Location Tracking Practices

Senator Al Franken D-MN is demanding answers to questions about the U.S. Department of Justice DOJ practice of gathering data from wireless providers in order to monitor individuals’ movements using mobile phone location data. Franken released a copy of a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on...

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Zeus Variant Targeting Cloud-Based Payroll Service

There is a new Zeus Trojan variant that is targeting the Canadian human resources and payroll service provider, Ceridian. The attack mixes malware infection with social engineering. Trusteer’s Amit Klein explains that Zeus takes a screenshot of Ceridian’s log-in, then, when a user with an infecte...