Microsoft Exec Says Company Has Never Been Asked to Backdoor a Product

One of Microsoft’s top security executives said the company has never been asked by the United States government to build a backdoor into any of its products, and if the company was asked, it would fight the order in the courts. Since the Edward Snowden revelations began last summer, there have...

Shopizer 1.1.5 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Shopizer 1.1.5 Multiple Vulnerability

Shopizer version 1.1.5 suffers from remote command execution, cross site request forgery, cross site scripting, data manipulation , authorization bypass and hardcoded key vulnerabilities. title: Multiple critical vulnerabilities in Shopizer webshop product: Shopizer vulnerable version: 1.1.5 and...

IBM Storwize Authenticated Information Disclosure

The remote Storwize device is a model that is affected by an authenticated information disclosure vulnerability. In the event of a hardware fault, memory contents containing customer data may be written to a file that can be read by an authenticated user of the system who may not otherwise have...

Microsoft Calls for NSA Surveillance Reforms

On the anniversary of the first news reports on NSA surveillance, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith seized the opportunity to draw a line in the sand with the U.S. government. Smith challenged the government curtail surveillance because it’s hurting business and impaling privacy and civil...

Tech Giants Update Transparency Reports with FISA Requests

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn wasted little time in disclosing what they could about requests for customer data made under the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. One week after the Justice Department eased a gag order on reporting of FISA requests, the five tech giant...

eBay and PayPal UK website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

A pro-hacker group, aligned with president Bashar al-Assad, very well known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA has again gained the media attention by adding the popular sites, i.e. eBay UK and PayPal UK to its victim list. After targeting websites of various media agencies, government organizations a...

US retailer Neiman Marcus confirmed data breach after TARGET

The TARGET Hack was not the only massive Data breach that happened during the last Black Friday, but also other three major US Retailers were also hacked. Recently, Neiman Marcus also confirmed a data breach that involves Credit card theft from its customers during the holiday shopping season,...

Microsoft Expands Encryption Use in Cloud Services to Thwart Surveillance

In response to the growing set of revelations about the NSA’s surveillance methods and alleged compromise of some large technology vendors’ services, Microsoft is taking a number of steps to try and reassure customers about the integrity of the company’s offerings and to greatly expand the use of...

Major Companies Fall Victim to Social Engineering

The annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest held during DEF CON may seem on the surface to be just an opportunity for pen-testers and hackers to flex their pretexting muscles. But if you’re one of the 10 major technology, manufacturing and critical infrastructure organizations targeted...

Technologists Scrutinize Impact of Surveillance on Economy

If you’re looking for silver linings among the Snowden leaks and the breadth of the NSA’s surveillance activities, they could be found in two things: 1 the math upholding encryption technology is, as far as we know, solid; and 2 Tor apparently drives the U.S. spy agency batty. “I’m surprised,” sa...

Belgian Telco Belgacom Compromised

A Belgian telecom company that handles some of the undersea cables that carry international voice traffic said Monday that its internal network had been compromised sometime in the last few months and malware had planted on some of its systems. Belgacom said the attack only affected its own...

Vodafone Germany Hacked; Attackers accesses banking data of two million customers

Vodafone Germany has been hacked and Personal details of more than two million customers have been compromised, some including banking details. Stole data includes names, addresses, birth dates, and bank account information, but the hacker had no access to credit-card information, passwords, PIN...

Talking about my company for security emergency response-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0×0 0 hack to. Company for hack attacks emergency treatment is still very lacking, that there are security issues, is often the customers are also the victims because the customers found that their data be changed, and then complain to the company that the data what is the malicious changes. Then...

Streaming Video's Vudu Issues Systemwide Password Reset After Theft

The streaming video service Vudu on Tuesday began resetting its customers’ passwords after thieves broke into the company’s Santa Clara, Calif. headquarters and stole a number of items, including hard drives holding customer data. “Our investigation thus far indicates that these hard drives...

Microsoft becomes latest victim of Cyber attack

Microsoft has become the latest victim of to Cyber attack and confirm that small number of its computers, including some in its Mac software business unit, were infected with malware. Microsoft added, malicious software used in a cyber attack is very similar to those experienced by Facebook and...

Sony Fined £250,000 By UK Over Failures in PlayStation Network Breach

Nearly two years after attackers began what turned out to be a long series of intrusions at Sony, most notably with the PlayStation Network data breach, authorities in the U.K. have fined the company the equivalent of almost $400,000 for not being careful enough with customer data. The Sony PSN...

Blizzard Sued Over Data Breach, Authenticator Sales

UPDATED–A group of customers is suing gaming giant Blizzard Entertainment in connection with a data breach in August that resulted in user email addresses, hashed passwords and other information being stolen by attackers. The suit claims that the company did not do enough to secure users’ account...

Attorneys Warn of Increased Risk of Big Data Breach Lawsuits

Two attorneys for a prominent law firm warn that courts are starting to look more favorably on class-action lawsuits brought by data breach victims, who historically have had trouble proving actual damages from the thefts. “A recent survey of data breach litigation found that the average settleme...

HSBC Sites Knocked Offline in 'Large Scale' DoS Attack

Websites belonging to British bank and financial services company HSBC are back online today after reportedly experiencing a denial of service DoS attack. The attack, which lasted approximately 10 hours last night, was deemed a “large scale denial of service attack” by the company. “On 18 October...