U.S. Backs Research Into What Makes Cyber Criminals Tick

The following is an exclusive Threatpost interview with Samuel Weber, Program Director for the National Science Foundation’s Trustworthy Computing Program. The interview took place on Monday, June 27, 2011 at the RFIDSec 11 Conference on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The...

Attackers Using Amazon Cloud to Host Malware

Attackers are beginning to host their malicious domains and drive-by download sites, and most recently researchers have discovered a number of domains on Amazon’s cloud platform that are being used to install malware as part of a spam and phishing campaign designed to steal banking credentials an...

USN-1137-1: Eucalyptus vulnerability

Juraj Somorovsky, Jorg Schwenk, Meiko Jensen and Xiaofeng Lou discovered that Eucalyptus did not properly validate SOAP requests. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this to submit arbitrary commands to the Eucalyptus SOAP interface in the context of an authenticated user...

Three Questions for Billy Brumley on the OpenSSL Timing Attack

Timing attacks have been a problem for designers of cryptosystems–as well as for people implementing those systems–for a long time. They’ve plagued just about every popular system, and although practical attacks have been demonstrated many times, the problem and what can be done to defend against...

PlayStation Network hack launched from Amazon EC2 !

PlayStation Network hack launched from Amazon EC2 ! The hackers who breached the security of Sony's PlayStation network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon's web services cloud to launch the attack, Bloomberg News reported. The attackers rented a sever from...

White House Unveils Cybersecurity Legislative Agenda

The White House proposed Thursday reforming the Federal Information Security Management Act by formalizing the Department of Homeland Security role in managing cybersecurity for the federal government's civilian computers and networks. What the Obama administration does not propose is the...

Mobile Application Security – The New Frontier

The power and popularity of consumer mobile computing is changing faster then you can say iFart the 1 downloaded app worldwide. Commercial entities are rapidly adopting mobile-based applications for retail sales floors, restaurants and dining rooms, distributed mobile banking, and more...

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download !

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download ! HES aims at anticipating the challenges of the security world and gathers together underground or amateur security researchers together with professional security expert researchers and technical decision makers. During three days, HES will...

GNOME 3.0 Released , Available for Download !

GNOME 3.0 Released , Available for Download ! GNOME 3.0 is a major milestone in the history of the GNOME Project. The release introduces an exciting new desktop which has been designed for today's users and which is suited to a range of modern computing devices. GNOME's developer technologies hav...

Security Threats Increasing in Sophistication and Precision

IBM’s X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk report showed that as vulnerability disclosures hit their highest level ever in 2010, security threats continued to increase in sophistication and precision. Like the term or not, 2010 may well have been the year of the APT, the term has become familiar to nearly...

Microsoft Cites Progress in SDL Report, Advocates More Adoption of ASLR, DEP

In the more than nine years since Bill Gates’s Trustworthy Computing email kicked off Microsoft’s comprehensive, company-wide security initiative, the company has not only committed a tremendous amount of money and resources to the project but also has been quite open and public about the process...

Mc.Graw Hill – Hacking Exposed 3rd Edition 2011

The latest Web app attacks and countermeasures from world-renowned practitioners. Protect your Web applications from malicious attacks by mastering the weapons and thought processes of today's hacker. Written by recognized security practitioners and thought leaders, Hacking Exposed Web...

Katie Moussouris on Microsoft, Trustworthy Computing and the Evolution of the Security Community

Dennis Fisher talks with Microsoft’s Katie Moussouris about the way that the Trustworthy Computing effort at Microsoft has changed, how the security community has evolved since she got involved in the 1990s and the challenges–and fun–of being a woman in security. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy6...

Compliance and the Cloud

"The Cloud" is a hot topic right now. Yet most people cant even define what "the cloud" really is. As I talk to more companies, who are considering the move, they all have two main concerns: security and compliance. Of course, security and compliance are key when it comes to cloud computing, but...

Ethical hacker (CEH) training now in syllabus of Riphah International University,Pakistan !

Islamabad: The first-ever 'Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures CEH' training course organised by the Riphah International University, in collaboration with internationally renowned information security certification body, EC-Council, concluded here on Wednesday. Riphah International University is...

Microsoft accuses former manager of stealing 600 MB of confidential docs !

Microsoft yesterday accused a former manager of taking hundreds of megabytes of confidential company material when he left the firm for a new position at CRM rival Salesforce.com. In a motion filed with a Washington State Superior Court Thursday, Microsoft alleged that Matt Miszewski, formerly a...

Cloud Computing Used to Hack Wireless Passwords ?

German security researcher Thomas Roth has found an innovative use for cloud computing: cracking wireless networks that rely on pre-shared key passphrases, such as those found in homes and smaller businesses. Roth has created a program that runs on Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing EC2 system. It...

Dell buys data security company !

Deal with undisclosed terms part of computer maker's ongoing effort to expand, improve information technology, cloud computing offerings. Dell Inc. was hunting for the right computer security company to buy, and on Tuesday, it announced its choice. Dell will buy Atlanta-based SecureWorks Inc. ,...

Kerala cyber police closing in on software theft culprits !

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5 IANS The cyber wing of the Kerala Police Wednesday claimed it had got vital clues about the theft of software source codes and intellectual property data from a Kochi-based IT company. The investigation is progressing on the right track, V.K. Ajith Mohan of the police...

Threatpost's List of the Top 10 Security Top 10 Lists

Ever since the traditional print industry collapsed in on itself like a decommissioned ‘Vegas casino, replaced with blogs, micro blogs, social networking and other forms of Web based publishing, the end of the year has brought with it a blizzard of retrospective and prospective Top 10 lists from...