NSA Director Says Agency Should Not Monitor Private Networks

The hysteria in Washington regarding the comprehensive infiltration of U.S. government and civilian networks by China has gotten to the point now that the director of the National Security Agency is saying in open Congressional hearings that his agency, the U.S. Cyber Command and others should be...

Customer Credit Reports for Resale in Black market

Customer Credit Reports for Resale in Black market Internet security concerns grew the most, Approximately half of respondents said they were seriously concerned about viruses, spam, and the safety of online shopping. 70% of respondents said they were seriously concerned about identity theft, and...

Hacktivism Breached 174 Million Records in 2011

Hacktivism Breached 174 Million Records in 2011 According to the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report released on Thursday, Hacktivists stole more data from large corporations than cybercriminals in 2011, according to a study of significant security incidents. The report surveyed 855 da...

Russian Agencies Take Down Carberp Gang

A collaborative effort between a Russian security company and two Russian federal agencies has yielded the arrest of eight men allegedly involved in the Carberp Trojan scam, it was announced today. Officials from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD and Federal Security Service FSB, along wi...

Vacation Packages Listing SQL Injection

Exploit Title: VACATION PACKAGES LISTING Sql Injection Date: 19/03/2012 Author: r45c4l Script url: http://www.classifiedsgeek.com/vacation-packages/ Version: N/A CVE : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::...

Iran Defense Forum users logins compromised and Leaked

Iran Defense Forum users logins compromised and Leaked Hacker with name "Le0n B3lm0nt" claimed to hack into the Iran Defense Forum website irandefence.net and leak user details of all 3,212 members including their usernames, Emails and Passwords. Iran Defense Forum is an independent forum that is...

Debate Over Active Defense and Hacking Back Crops Up at RSA

SAN FRANCISCO–The growing stream of attacks in recent years against government agencies, critical infrastructure, utilities and other vital networks has led to an increasingly heated debate around the concept of active defense and targeting the people and groups behind those attacks. That debate...

#WikiLeaks publishes millions of Hacked Stratfor E-mails #gifiles

WikiLeaks publishes millions of Hacked Stratfor E-mails gifiles WikiLeaks today began publishing more than five million confidential e-mails from US-based Intelligence firm Stratfor. About 5.5m emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a US-based intelligence gathering firm with about 300,000...

UPDATE: Wikileaks Dumps First of 5 Million Stratfor E-Mails

The whistle-blower Web site Wikileaks has published what it claims are the first of millions of internal e-mails taken from the Texas based strategic intelligence firm Stratfor. In a statement on the Web site of Wikileaks, the organization published links to 167 email messages – a first installme...

India demands Real time monitoring on Indian Gmail & Yahoo Emails

India demands Real time monitoring on Indian Gmail & Yahoo Emails Looks like the Government Of India is really after the digital communication in India. Internet content providers Yahoo, Gmail and others would be asked to route all emails accesed in India through the country even if the mail...

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files "Give me liberty or give me death" is a statement made famous by Patrick Henry but could easily have been stated by the new patriot of justice, Julian Assange. Julian Assange is a journalist and activist best known as the founder and public face of WikiLeaks,...

Offensive Research Continuing to Advance

MIAMI BEACH–It’s the accepted wisdom these days that many of the traditional security defenses organizations depend on just aren’t effective at deterring attackers. But this glosses over the fact that the last few years have included some major advances in defensive technologies, including the...

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed Microsoft is to offer a real-time intelligence feed of botnet and e-crime data to public and private sector subscribers, according to security company Kaspersky. Currently, Microsoft is testing a real-time feed to distribute informatio...

New Zealand agencies can be next target after US host was hacked

New Zealand agencies can be next target after US host was hacked Sensitive information about the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and other New Zealand agencies can be the next target after US host was hacked. US intelligence firm Stratfor had its website hacked by activist group Anonymou...

Feds to Focus R&D Efforts on Designing Security in to Applications

The federal government is planning to focus some of its research and development efforts on developing methods for building security into software and hardware systems used in federal agencies. This a major change for the government, which has historically focused its energies on defenses such as...

More Details of Sykipot Exploits Of Adobe Reader Flaw Surface

More evidence is beginning to emerge that the Adobe Reader zero-day bug revealed recently is being used in targeted attacks against companies and federal agencies. Researchers recently have come across fresh samples of malware exploiting the vulnerability by using files crafted to draw in employe...

OSTP Announces New Cybersecurity R&D Plan

The Office of Science and Technology Policy OSTP released a new report yesterday that details plans to complement the nation’s existing cybersecurity policy, according to a blog entry on the office’s site co-authored by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Cybersecurity Coordinator...

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...

Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack

Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it could eventually catch fire? Or use a hijacked printer as a copy machine for criminals, making it easy to commit identity theft or...

Like Enterprises, Government Agencies Are Struggling With Security

WASHINGTON–The U.S. government has a lot of money. Not as much as it used to have, of course, but still, it has a lot. It also has a lot of computers and servers and routers and other things that move and store data. In fact, they have so many that they don’t really know what all of them are doin...