DARPA, FIDO Alliance Join Race to Replace Passwords

Nearly everyone agrees that passwords are the bane of Internet security. For years, industry thinkers have somewhat vaguely referenced the need for Internet fingerprints capable of reliably verifing identities online. Yet here we are, it’s 2013 and passwords remain the primary means of...

Wiper, the Destructive Malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu

Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have...

Senate Committee to Discuss Do Not Track at Key Hearing

The dram surrounding the Do Not Track specification and its implementation by browser manufacturers is set to continue on Thursday when the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to discuss whether the proposed specification is strong enough or has been weakened by the digital advertising...

REMnux: A Linux Distribution for Reverse-Engineering Malware

REMnux: A Linux Distribution for Reverse-Engineering Malware REMnux is a lightweight Linux distribution for assisting malware analysts in reverse-engineering malicious software. The distribution is based on Ubuntu and is maintained by Lenny Zeltser. REMnux is designed for running services that ar...

REMnux: A Linux Distribution for Reverse-Engineering Malware

REMnux: A Linux Distribution for Reverse-Engineering Malware REMnux is a lightweight Linux distribution for assisting malware analysts in reverse-engineering malicious software. The distribution is based on Ubuntu and is maintained by Lenny Zeltser. REMnux is designed for running services that ar...

How Facebook and Facial Recognition Are Creating a Minority Report-Style Privacy Meltdown

Researchers at the annual Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas have demonstrated how cloud computing, facial recognition technology, Facebook, a freely available personal information can be used to match faces in a crowd to detailed online profiles. The demonstration brings us closer to the brink of ...

UK Authorities Charge Suspected LulzSec Member for DDoS Attacks

A 19 year-old UK man was charged on Wednesday for the role he played in attacks on the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA as well as UK’s British Phonographic Industry BPI and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI, according to a statement released by the Metropolitan...

Carriers Enhance Mobile Security to Combat Attacks and Breaches

Carriers, developers, and phone makers are rolling out new services and features to protect mobile devices from malicious attacks and data breaches. As people increasingly use smartphones for email, banking, and document access, the wireless industry is addressing mobile device security. Accordin...

Ad Groups Try to Make Opting Out of Tracking Ads Easier

In the latest attempt to allay consumers’ rising fears about the massive amounts of data that online advertisers collect about them, an amalgamation of industry groups is planning to launch a new self-regulation effort meant to let users decide not to be tracked by advertisers. The program will...

MIT Kerberos V5 KAdminD klog_vsyslog Server Stack Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-0957)

Kerberos is a protocol suite which allows for the negotiation of authenticated, and optionally encrypted, communication between two points on a network. MIT Kerberos V5 is an implementation of this protocol suite. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in MIT Kerberos. The vulnerability is...