May 2012 – Mythic/Kickstarter

‘Mythic: Stories of Gods and Men’ was yanked from the increasingly popular crowd-funding website, Kickstarter, earlier this year after it became apparent that the game was, in actuality, a sham. Mythic touted itself as an action/strategy based role playing game and managed to raise $4,739 from 83...

White House Security Czar Howard Schmidt Retiring

Howard Schmidt, the top White House information security adviser, is retiring after more than two years on the job and several decades in security both in government and private industry. Schmidt is in his second stint as the White House security chief and he’s leaving at a time when cybersecurit...

Brad Arkin

In a keynote on Thursday, Brad Arkin, Adobe’s Senior Director of Product Security and Privacy spoke on driving up the cost of exploits in products like Reader and Flash Player in an attempt to thwart would-be attackers. Fixing every security bug is often impossible, so instead of writing flawless...

Driving Up the Cost of Exploit Development Becomes a Key Defensive Strategy

CANCUN–The skill of attackers, combined with the difficulty and cost of finding and fixing vulnerabilities in software–especially after deployment–has reached the point that it’s now more effective and efficient for vendors to concentrate on making life more difficult for those attackers looking ...

voldemort-info NSE Script

Retrieves cluster and store information from the Voldemort distributed key-value store using the Voldemort Native Protocol. Example Usage nmap -p 6666 --script voldemort-info Script Output PORT STATE SERVICE 6666/tcp open irc | voldemort-info: | Cluster | Name: mycluster | Id: 0 | Host: localhost...

From the In-Security Land to Security in the Cloud

From the In-Security Land to Security in the Cloud "This article aims to share with you some thoughts and concepts associated with Cloud Computing and the risks involved for those who want to venture into the benefits it offers" -- Mariano M. Río "From the In-Security Land to Security in the Clou...

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet?

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet ? Initially After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version o...

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites Several Israeli government websites crashed on Sunday in what appeared to be a cyber-attack by Anonymous hackers. The websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were among the sites that went down, as well as...

Cisco 10000 Series Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Cisco 10000 Series Router is affected by a denial of service DoS vulnerability where an attacker could cause a device reload by sending a series of ICMP packets. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability are also availabl...

DOD Launches New Cyber Strategy Website

DOD Launches New Cyber Strategy Website The Department of Defense today launched a new website to highlight DoD's first unified strategy for cyberspace announced on July 14. The website is a tool to help explain and consolidate DoD's cybersecurity accomplishments and new way forward for military,...

DOD Launches New Cyber Strategy Website

DOD Launches New Cyber Strategy Website The Department of Defense today launched a new website to highlight DoD's first unified strategy for cyberspace announced on July 14. The website is a tool to help explain and consolidate DoD's cybersecurity accomplishments and new way forward for military,...

Pentagon Discloses Massive Data Theft, Lays Out New Security Strategy

A targeted attack on a defense contractor in March of this year resulted in the theft of 24,000 files by an unknown attacker, according to Defense Department officials. The attack, which officials say was the work of a foreign government, would represent one of the more serious known attacks on t...

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism Today President Obama's release National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which was presented by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in a speech at SAIS named "Ensuring al-Qa'ida's Demise...

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism Today President Obama's release National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which was presented by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in a speech at SAIS named "Ensuring al-Qa'ida's Demise...

Obama Cybersecurity Chief: Other Nations Key To Securing Cyberspace

This is the first part of a two-part Threatpost interview with Howard Schmidt, White House cybersecurity coordinator, about the challenges of international cooperation, the proliferation of cybercrime and what can be done to address those issues. Look for part two tomorrow. The Obama administrati...

While U.S. Plots Cyber Strategy, Experts See Obstacles Ahead

The release of the International Strategy for Cyberspace late last month marked a major shift in the way that United States officials think about and treat information security, which now seems as if it will have a place at the table during diplomatic discussions. However, experts and U.S...

Pentagon Adds Cyber-Weapons to List of Arms

The Pentagon is compiling a list of offensive cyber-weapons capable of deliberately crippling or destroying an adversary’s critical infrastructure according to a recent report in the Washington Post. This collection of cyber weapons is part of a broader list of weapons approved by the Pentagon fo...

Dennis Fisher and Paul Roberts on the Sony Data Breach and National Cybersecurity

Dennis Fisher and Paul Roberts talk about the data breach of the Sony PlayStation Network, Sony’s response to the attack and whether the recent legislation proposed by the White House and its new cyberspace strategy will have any effect. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

DHS Cybersecurity Chief Reitinger Stepping Down

Philip Reitinger, the top information security official at the Department of Homeland Security, is going to step down from his post at the beginning of June, just a couple of weeks after the Obama administration laid out the details of its latest strategy to improve the country’s online defenses...

Obama Administration Lays Out New U.S. Cyberspace Strategy

The Obama administration has unveiled a sweeping strategy for the way that it plans to conduct the country’s business and political dealings online in the coming years, and much of the plan centers on improving the security and reliability of the Internet. The International Strategy for Cyberspac...