Microsoft: 88 Percent of Citadel Botnets Down

Nearly two months after the company was part of an operation to disrupt a large number of Citadel botnets, Microsoft said that 88 percent of the botnets spawned by that malware have been taken down. Citadel is a Trojan designed specifically to steal financial information from a variety of sources...

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager Installed (Linux)

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager DCNM is installed on the remote host. DCNM is used to manage virtualized data centers. TRUSTED...

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager Web Detection

The web interface for Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager DCNM was detected on the remote host. DCNM is used to manage virtualized data centers. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid67246; scriptversion"1.10";...

Are You 'Siri-less'? Security Firm Urges Closer Look at Popular Personal Assistant App

The Finland-based security firm F-Secure is warning companies to beware of Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant app that last month was banned by IBM for security purposes. The potential for Siri-based data disclosures was cited at a Helsinki press conference, in which F-Secure’s vice...

Iran will Develop their own security Software, No more foreign Solution

Iran will Develop their own security Software, No more foreign Solution According to latest report, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister announce that - Iran has prohibited import of foreign computer security software. Because International sanctions stopped Iran from obtaini...

Barracuda Backup 2.0 Cookie Manipulation

Title: ====== Barracuda Backup v2.0 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2011-09-28 References: =========== Barracuda Backup Application v2.0 VL-ID: ===== 31 Introduction: ============= Barracuda Networks - Worldwide leader in email and Web security. Barracuda Backup Service is a complete a...

Massachusetts Inaugurates New Cyber Security Center

Hundreds of business leaders and academics joined Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley to launch the state’s Advanced Cyber Security Center ACSC, one of the first of its kind in the nation. Speaking at the local headquarters of the MITRE Corporation, Patrick an...

HIPAA Compliance and Call Centers

In a previous post titled Is It Safe to Speak? Protection for Telephone-Based Payment Card Data, I commented on the PCI SSC new requirements for call center operations and recording systems. Call center security has been a hot topic for a long time. How safe is the information that is given over...

Qakbot Virus Causes Possible Data Breach at Mass. Agencies

An untold number of computers at the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and Department of Career Services were compromised in April, leading state officials to warn hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information may have been stolen as part of the attack. However...

Malaysiakini - Malaysia's Most Popular News Website Shutdown's after cyber attack !

Malaysiakini - Malaysia's Most Popular News Website Shutdown's after cyber attack ! It has been reported that Malaysia's most popular news website Malaysiakini https://www.malaysiakini.com has been hit by cyber attack from 11 AM afternoon shutting the website down. The attack created a stir when...

Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets

The take-down of the Rustock botnet in March gave Microsoft another head for its mantle: two in just the last year. That’s an impressive take for any private firm, and one of a string of actions against bot networks in recent years. But security experts say that the company’s success in building ...

Egypt Shut Down Net With Big Switch, Not Phone Calls !

The Egyptian government shut down most of its country's internet not by phoning ISPs one at a time, but by simply throwing a switch in a crucial data center in Cairo. That according to a February presentation to the Department of Homeland Security's Infosec Technology Transition Council. The...

Civil Liberties Grade Drops for Obama Administration in Latest Privacy Report

The Electronic Privacy Information Center EPIC has released its annual Privacy Report Card for the Obama Administration. Compared to last year's results, the administration has retained its good grade in only one privacy subject: cybersecurity. "One of the most difficult subjects for any...

vdsm: missing VM post-zeroing after removal

Previously, the ISO image domain could not be shared with multiple Data Centers. The user had to define an independent ISO domain for each Data Center. With this update, the ISO image domain can be shared between multiple Data Centers...

vdsm: missing VM post-zeroing after removal

Previously, the ISO image domain could not be shared with multiple Data Centers. The user had to define an independent ISO domain for each Data Center. With this update, the ISO image domain can be shared between multiple Data Centers...

Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the...

Obama Nominates DHS Intelligence Chief

President Barack Obama has nominated Caryn Wagner to be the Homeland Security Department s intelligence chief, a position that oversees information technology systems designed to share information with federal, state and local officials. If confirmed by the Senate, Wagner would direct DHS Office ...

FTC pulls plug on spam, child porn ISP

A rogue Internet Service Provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content has been shut down by a district court judge at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. The ISP’s upstream provider...

RSA Cryptographer's Panel: Cloud Computing Takes Center Stage

Not so surprising, the state elders of cryptography had a few things to say about the security of cloud computing — but with little agreement. Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, kicked off the cloud security discussion, stating that while securing the cloud computing...

Supported SmartDefense and Web Intelligence Protections for VPN-1 VSX NGX Gateways

VPN-1 VSX provides a set of virtual components acting as real network devices such as Firewall gateways, routers, switches, and network cables. Using these virtual components, network topologies are created that are functionally equivalent to networks built with physical devices. Each Virtual...