FBI used Anonymous and Lulzsec Hackers to attack foreign governments

Sentencing for former LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as "Sabu" , has again been delayed. Monsegur pleaded guilty to a dozen criminal counts two years prior and stands to face more a maximum sentence of more than 124 years. Another Lulzsec Hacker Jeremy Hammond has claimed tha...

Julian Assange's Book 'Cypherpunks' - Freedom and the Future of the Internet

Julian Assange publish a book based on his interview "Cypherpunks" on "The World Tomorrow", his controversial talk show, with the people he believes know the solution to the problems of privacy and freedom. The book called 'Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet,' was written by...

Massachusetts Hospital Agrees to Pay $1.5m After Stolen Laptop HIPAA Violation

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Boston-based hospital, agreed to pay $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HSS earlier this week, settling a HIPAA violation stemming from a 2010 incident. The agreement acknowledges that the hospital failed to comply with...

Temenos T24 R07.03 Authentication Bypass

TEMENOS T24 R07.03 authentication bypass Class: Access Validation Error Remote: Yes Local: No Published: 26/06/2012 Credit: Raymond Rizk of Dionach Limited [email protected] Vulnerable: TEMENOS T24 R07.03 TEMENOS T24 is prone to an authentication bypass vulnerability as it fails to properly enfor...

GAO Calls out the FDIC

It’s not always malicious hackers and purported state actors that expose weaknesses in government systems. Sometime it’s other government agencies as well. This was the case when federal watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, audited and subsequently called out the Federal Deposit...

Accountability – Not Code Quality- Makes iOS Safer Than Android

BOSTON—Accountability, not superior technology, has kept Apple’s iOS ecosystem free of viruses, even as the competing Android platform strains under the weight of repeated malicious code outbreaks, say researchers Dan Guido of the firm Trail of Bits and Michael Arpaia of iSEC Partners. The two...

White House Lays Out Privacy Agenda

The Obama administration today unveiled a new consumer-privacy plan designed to help better protect users’ rights online, including a privacy “bill of rights” that spells out exactly what consumers should expect from the companies they work with online. In conjunction with this new initiative,...

GAO: Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Intiatives Lack Focus

According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, federal cybersecurity workforce initiatives are in need of better planning and coordination, particularly with regards to human capital. A study by the government’s watchdog of the seven federal agencies with the largest IT...

Insulin Pump Hack Garners Federal Attention

The hack of a commercially available insulin pump earlier this month at the DEFCON hacker conference has attracted the attention of members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which is now calling for a formal review of wireless medical devices like the pump. Senior Committee members Anna G...

GAO: The DoD's Plan To Unify Cyber Defenses Looks Like Swiss Cheese

A new report out from the Government Accountability Office GAO warns that the U.S. Department of Defense’s efforts to unify its cyber security operations has serious gaps and that the Department is “unprepared to meet the current threat” of cyber attack. The report, issued on Monday, is an...

Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize !

Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize ! WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was Wednesday awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation's top honor for "exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights," joining the likes of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Assange, an Australian former computer...

Dept. of Commerce Unveils the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a press conference this morning to unveil details surrounding a National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC as they are calling it. While the press conference was somewhat vague in terms of specifics, the initiative appears to be designed to...

DB Audit v4.2.29 all-in-one database security and auditing solution !

DB Audit v4.2.29 all-in-one database security and auditing solution ! .DB Audit Expert is a professional all-in-one database security and auditing solution for Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. DB Audit Expert enables database and system administrators, security administrators,...

Opinion: Google's DroidDream Patch Pushes The Envelope

Google announced plans yesterday to fortify the Android Market in response to the appearance of the DroidDream Trojan, but do the company’s plans cross the line from innovative to intrusive? In a blog post, Kaspersky Labs researcher Timothy Armstrong warns that the search giant’s plans to repair...

Squashing Ants: The Dynamics of XSS Remediation

Is anyone else getting tired of hearing excuses from customers — and worse yet, the security community itself — about how hard it is to fix cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities? Oh, come on. Fixing XSS is like squashing ants, but some would have you believe it’s more like slaying dragons. I...

GAO Names Areas of Threat to U.S.

It’s not a very good day when a security report concludes: Disruptive cyber activities expected to become the norm in future political and military conflicts. But such was the case as the Government Accountability Office took yet another critical look at the US federal security systems and found...

Senator Joe Lieberman Wants Head of Cyber Security to Reside in White House

Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Conneticut is set to propose a bill that would make the lead security post for the U.S. government a Presidential nominee approved by the Senate and accountable to Congress. This is in sharp contrast to the proposed hierarchy laid out by the ranking Republican...

Cybersecurity should return to the White House

A bill introduced in the Senate on Wednesday would make major changes to the way that cybersecurity is handled both within the government and in the private sector, including giving the federal government more control over private networks. But the provision that is getting the most attention, an...

What is security transparency?

Transparency is a common theme in politics and Wall Street these days. The 2008 elections, dealings of TARP, financial institutions run a-muck are all places where we hear the word transparency bandied about on a daily basis. While many security professionals speak about transparency when it come...

The CGI script of the invasion to get started quickly+script method of use-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Preface: The following explanation is directed to Europe and the United States Japan website When we are doing penetration analysis of the time there are many ways to We all know the foreign servers are mostly linux platform So there are many website programs have 6 Chengdu will use a cgi script ...