Malware And Hacking Forum Seized, Dozens Arrested

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 70 people suspected of carrying out cyber criminal activities associated with one of the most active underground web forums known as Darkode. Darkode, also used by notorious Lizard Squad, was an online bazaar for cyber criminals...

[SECURITY] [DLA-252-1] postgresql-8.4 update

Package : postgresql-8.4 Version : 8.4.22lts4-0+deb6u1 Several bugs were discovered in PostgreSQL, a relational database server system. The 8.4 branch is EOLed upstream, but still present in Debian squeeze. This new LTS minor version contains the fixes that were applied upstream to the 9.0.22...

CA20141001-01: Security Notice for Bash Shellshock Vulnerability

CA20141001-01: Security Notice for Bash Shellshock Vulnerability Issued: October 01, 2014 Updated: October 03, 2014 CA Technologies is investigating multiple GNU Bash vulnerabilities, referred to as the "Shellshock" vulnerabilities, which were publicly disclosed on September 24-27, 2014. CVE...

Gary McGraw on the IEEE Center for Secure Design

Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the IEEE’s new Center for Secure Design program, the difficulty of defeating large classes of bugs and the collaborative effort it will take to solve the software security problem. Music by Chris Gonsalves Download: digitalunderground164.mp3...

Experts Worry About Future of Critical Infrastructure Security

SAN FRANCISCO–The problem of critical infrastructure security has become a key issue in the last few years, as high-profile attacks such as Stuxnet and others have grabbed headlines and alerted politicians and others to the weaknesses facing these vital systems. It’s an issue that Eugene Kaspersk...

Attackers Target Yahoo Mail Accounts in 'Coordinated Effort' to Own Users

After years of focusing their attention on Gmail, it seems that attackers have finally gotten around to expending some effort hacking Yahoo mail accounts. Yahoo officials said Thursday that they have reset the passwords on an unspecified number of mail accounts after detecting what they call a...

Google to Pay Rewards For Patches to Open Source Projects

Google, one of the first companies to offer a significant bug bounty program, is extending its rewards to researchers and developers who contribute patches to a variety of open source projects and have an effect on the security of the project. The new rewards will range from $500 to $3,133.70, an...

Stuxnet 0.5 : Symantec study reveals Stuxnet was dated 2005

Today social media are spreading a shocking news, authors of Stuxnet virus that hit Iranian nuclear program in 2010 according a new research proposed by Symantec security company started in 2005 and contrary to successive instance of the malware he was designed to manipulate the nuclear facility'...

Experts Say Better Security Rests on Cooperation, More Data

LAS VEGAS–Reflecting on the successes and failures in the industry in the last 15 years, a panel of security experts at Black Hat said that while defenses have gotten better, attackers have as well and there is a long way to go before defenders have the upper hand. If that ever happens, they said...

CVE-2012-0217

The x86-64 kernel system-call functionality in Xen 4.1.2 and earlier, as used in Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier and other products; Oracle Solaris 11 and earlier; illumos before r13724; Joyent SmartOS before 20120614T184600Z; FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p3; NetBSD 6.0 Beta and earlier; Microso...

Pentagon boosts contractor cybersecurity program

Pentagon boosts contractor cybersecurity program The US Defense Department invited all of its eligible contractors on Friday to join a previously restricted information-sharing pact aimed at guarding sensitive Pentagon program data stored on private computer networks. The Pentagon predicts that a...

Troubling Cracks Showing in Internet's Security Foundation

The revelation last week that researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo had developed a new attack on SSL that gives them the ability to decrypt some protected sessions on the fly sparked a lot of discussions about the inherent problems of the protocol and whether it has outlived its usefulness. B...

Reports: Rustock Born in the USA

U.S. hosting firms accounted for the bulk of the command and control centers for the Rustock botnet, with many firms claiming that they had no idea they were harboring an illegal criminal network on their infrastructure, according to a story in Krebsonsecurity.com. Threatpost reported last week...

Facebook Awarded More Than $ 360 Million In Damages Against Spammer

Facebook's security team have reason to celebrate as they have claimed another scalp in the ongoing fight against spammers on the social network. A post on Facebook's Security page announced that this week a federal court has awarded the firm a whopping $360,500,000 in statutory damages and issue...

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. ,...

nSense-2010-003: Cisco Unified Communications Manager

nSense Vulnerability Research Security Advisory NSENSE-2010-003 --------------------------------------------------------------- Affected Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc Affected Product: Cisco Unified Communications Manager Platform: All Impact: Privilege Escalation Vendor response: Patch. IntelliShie...

The Economics of Targeted Attacks

CAMBRIDGE–Researchers and security vendors have been telling us for years now that attackers have developed sophisticated, targeted attacks designed to separate victims from their money as quickly and cleanly as possible. If that’s so, why aren’t all of us being compromised on a regular basis? A...

Taking a Page From Singapore's Cybersecurity Playbook

We could all learn a thing or two about developing an effective cyber security strategy from the government of Singapore. I was recently in Singapore to do a keynote for Singapore GovWare on the Changing State of the Endpoint and, while I was out there, I witnessed something interesting the...

Patch Counting: Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

Like the old saying goes, “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” I’ve developed a corollary this week, “The ‘number of flaws’ only matters to vulnerability assessment scanners and journalists.” I’ve read many news stories this week talking about the record number of...

Twitter needs a top-down security rethink

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the company “takes security very seriously” but the details behind the micro-blogging site’s recent hack shows that Twitter is light years away from having the most basic security controls in place. French hacker gains access to Twitter’s admin panel Here’s the...