Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities

A team of computer science engineers from Princeton have released a paper that explains how an adversary with a passive presence on a network or Internet backbone could track individuals by observing HTTP cookies. The motivation for the project was news in December that the National Security Agen...

The Next Leap Forward in Cyber Defense: Taking Action to Help Defeat Adversaries

It is often said that attackers have an advantage, because the defenders have to protect every part of their systems all the time, while the attacker only has to find one way in. This argument oversimplifies the security landscape and the real strength that defenders can achieve if they work...

Google Encrypts All Gmail Connections

Perhaps no company has been as vocal with its feelings about the revelations about the NSA’s collection methods as Google has, and the company has been making a series of changes to its infrastructure in recent months to make it more difficult for adversaries to snoop on users’ sessions. The...

Gap Widens Between Attackers, BIOS Forensics, Research

Vendors have made important strides in locking down operating systems, patching memory-related vulnerabilities and other bugs that could lead to remote code execution or give hackers a stealthy presence on a machine. As the hurdles get higher for the bad guys, the better ones will certainly look...

NSA Officials Say Snowden Used Legitimate Access to Steal Data

It’s taken more than six months, but top officials at the National Security Agency are finally discussing some of the details of how former agency contractor Edward Snowden got access to all of the documents he stole and what kind of damage they believe the publication of the information they...

Alexander: 'FISA is the Key to Connecting the Dots'

WASHINGTON–Faced with trying to accomplish its mission in an environment that suddenly has become quite hostile and inquisitive about its methods, the National Security Agency is becoming more and more public about the challenges that lie ahead and how the agency plans to address them. One of the...

Microsoft becomes latest victim of Cyber attack

Microsoft has become the latest victim of to Cyber attack and confirm that small number of its computers, including some in its Mac software business unit, were infected with malware. Microsoft added, malicious software used in a cyber attack is very similar to those experienced by Facebook and...

What's the Meaning of This: Adobe Certificate Attack

The news yesterday that Adobe had been compromised and that the attackers were able to get valid Adobe signatures on a pair of malware utilities is one of the more worrisome and troubling stories in what has become a year of huge hacks and historic change in the security industry. Adobe was...

LeBron James, Advanced Attackers and the Best Man Theory

There is a line of thinking that pervades and pollutes the discussions of many sporting events, and it goes something like this: “You can’t let LeBron James/Derek Jeter/Lionel Messi beat you. You have to force someone else to beat you.” It’s a flawed strategy for a number of reasons, but it’s eve...

Researchers bypass Google Bouncer Android Security

Researchers bypass Google Bouncer Android Security Google's Android platform has become the most popular mobile operating system both among consumers and malware writers, and the company earlier this year introduced the Bouncer system to look for malicious apps in the Google Play market. Bouncer,...

The Lesson of Stuxnet and Aurora: Get Back to Basics or Get Owned

SAN FRANCISCO–It’s often said that after decades of work and technological advances, the security industry hasn’t actually solved any problems or made things any better. But that’s not entirely true. The industry has in fact perfected the art of exploiting the scare ’em and snare ’em,...

Jobs Fighting Cybercrime Are In Demand

Banks, military contractors and software companies, along with federal agencies, are looking for “cyber ninjas” to fend off a sophisticated array of hackers, from criminals stealing credit card numbers to potential military adversaries. Read the full article. NY Times...