HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack

Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary, admits that lackluster security at his company played a central role in the breach that led to the release of some 50,000 company emails, but also disputes common understanding and reported details of the hack and the group behind it, going so far as to say there was...

RSA Hack Yields SecurID Secrets

RSA Security, a division of EMC Corp. has admitted that it was the victim of a sophisticated attack that resulted in the theft of secrets related to its SecurID two-factor authentication product. The disclosure came in a blog post by RSA chief Art Coviello on Thursday. Coviello said that the...

Sophisticated Attackers Now Using Social Net For Command and Control

Spammers aren’t the only ones who have figured out that social networks like Twitter and Facebook are good for business. Sophisticated hackers conducting targeted attacks are also using the networks as a tool to manage malware installations on victims’ networks, according to a new report from...

Report : Top Hacker Targets Include Mobile Devices and Mac !

McAfee is making security predictions for 2011. The firm outlines its top threats for next year in the 2011 Threat Predictions report -- and Android, iPhone, Foursquare, Google TV, and Mac OS X are listed as major cybercrime targets. Politically motivated attacks are also expected to increase, a ...

Chinese National Stole Ford Secrets Worth More Than $50 Million

A ten year veteran of the U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company pleaded guilty in federal court on November 17 to charges that he stole company secrets, including design documents, worth more than $50 million and sharing them with his new employer: the Chinese division of a U.S. rival of Ford’s. Xian...

Warning About IDS Evasion Greeted by Chorus of 'Meh'

‘All your IDS are belong to us,’ was the message on Monday, after researchers at networking security equipment vendor Stonesoft announced the discovery of evasion techniques that could be used by sophisticated attackers to bypass network based IDS and IPS. The disclosure raises questions about th...

Researchers: Google Aurora Attackers Back in Business?

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in your e-mail…Researchers say a new round of targeted attacks appear to come from the same group responsible for attacks against Google and other top U.S. firms. Writing on the Symantec Security blog...

RSA 2010: Securosis Previews the Key Themes and Topics

Securosis analysts Rich Mogull, Adrian Lane and Mike Rothman tackle the key themes for this year’s RSA 2010 conference — virtualization/cloud security, advanced persistent threats/cybersecurity and compliance...

Google Attack Was Tip of the Iceberg

The recent disclosure by Google, Adobe and other companies that their networks had been thoroughly compromised by attackers who may have been after their source code has prompted a tremendous amount of discourse both in the security community and in the general public about the political and...

It's The Adversaries Who Are Advanced And Persistent

There has been much talk recently about the “Advanced Persistent Threat.” According to Richard Bejtlich 1 and others, the term originated with the US Air Force around 2006, which explains why Bejtlich and others with an Air Force pedigree, such as Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia, have made much of...

Tom Kellermann on Google and Howard Schmidt's Priorities

Dennis Fisher talks with Tom Kellermann of Core Security about the Google attack, the priorities for new cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt and the economic and political realities of advanced persistent threats. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...