U.S. Congress Websites Defaced

A number of Congressional websites were defaced with abuse aimed at President Obama following Wednesday’s State of the Union address. Read the full article. The Register...

kernel: r8169 issue reported at 26c3

drivers/net/r8169.c in the r8169 driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.32.3 and earlier does not properly check the size of an Ethernet frame that exceeds the MTU, which allows remote attackers to 1 cause a denial of service temporary network outage via a packet with a crafted size, in conjunction with...

Q&A: Eugene Spafford on Cybercrime, Security Research

Threatpost editor Dennis Fisher talks with Eugene Spafford of Purdue’s CERIAS center about cybercrime, funding for long-term security research projects and whether the federal cybersecurity coordinator position matters. Fisher: Do you see any indications that there will be more funding coming fro...

Congress Calls for Internal Security Review

After a former Congressional staffer exposed some sensitive data on a file-sharing network recently, some lawmakers are calling for the Congress to start an internal review of its own data security policies immediately. The situation, which is linked to an ethics investigation in the House of...

Senator Joe Lieberman Wants Head of Cyber Security to Reside in White House

Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Conneticut is set to propose a bill that would make the lead security post for the U.S. government a Presidential nominee approved by the Senate and accountable to Congress. This is in sharp contrast to the proposed hierarchy laid out by the ranking Republican...

DECT cordless telephone security test-use-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Disclaimer: This article tests the use of the DECT phone are has himself, strongly opposed any who used to be discord, or even break the law.! Just use the "hack DECT cordless phone" as keyword Google the following. Found this 2 articles: hack crack DECT cordless telephone security system...