iPad 3 jailbroken on Launch Day by 3 ways

iPad 3 jailbroken on Launch Day by 3 ways The new Apple iPad third iPad, iPad 3 has already been jailbroken in at least three different ways. On the same day that Apple started shipping the new iPad out to consumers, there were reports that at least one hacker had already jailbroken the latest...

Pro-Syrian Malware Targets, Impedes Activists

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF warned this week that political activists in Iran and Syria are being targeted in malware attacks disgised as Adobe Flash Player updates on Youtube. In a blog post by the EFF’s Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire on Thursday said the attacks occur after...

Feds Sidestep Controversy By Circumventing Device Encryption

A Colorado District Court Ruling to force the suspect in a fraud case to surrender the encryption key to her laptop was deemed unnecessary after federal authorities managed to circumvent the device’s encryption, Ars Technica reports. The development effectively ends what has been a controversial...

Cryptosystems Showing Signs of 'Wear and Tear'

SAN FRANCISCO– It’s been an interesting year in the cryptography world, with new attacks on several algorithms, continued problems with hash functions and the recent research on weak RSA keys. With all of that as a backdrop, some of the brightest minds in the field, gathered here for the RSA...

Court Ruling: Forced Decryption Violates the Fifth, Sometimes

The Eleventh Circuit of the US Court of Appeals recently handed down a landmark ruling, establishing a precedent under which the contents of an encrypted hard-drive are protected by the Fifth Amendment’s ban on self-incrimination. Briefly, the facts of the case are these: John Doe is suspected of...

Al Jazeera news network hacked by Syrian Hackers

Al Jazeera news network hacked by Syrian Hackers Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera's website was hacked last week by a Syrian hacktivist group in support of the government's actions in the country. Aljazeera is broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2334-1 (mahara)

The remote host is missing an update to mahara announced via advisory DSA 2334-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb23341.nasl 6612 2017-07-07 12:08:03Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2334-1 mahara Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc...

After Damaging Reports, Electronics Manufacturing Giant Foxconn Is Hacked

Members of an online hacking group that calls itself SwaggSec say they hacked systems belonging to Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn and made off with login credentials belonging to some of the company’s biggest clients. Foxconn has declined to comment. The incident comes in the wak...

Electronic Arts Cross Site Scripting

Title: ====== Electronic Arts - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability Date: ===== 2012-02-06 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=367 VL-ID: ===== 367 Introduction: ============= Electronic Arts, Inc. EA NASDAQ: EA is a major American developer, marketer,...

Electronic Arts - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Electronic Arts - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=367 Release Date: ============= 2012-02-05 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 367...

Electronic Arts - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Electronic Arts - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=367 Release Date: ============= 2012-02-05 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 367...

Slideshow: Ten Tips For Protecting Your Devices From Seizure By U.S. Customs

VIEW SLIDESHOW Ten Tips For Protecting Your Devices From Seizure By U.S. Customs Fourth amendment be damned. With U.S. Customs agents increasingly interested in the contents of digital devices like iPhones, iPads and laptops, The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued guidance for getting your...

New SEC Guidance May Impact Corporate Disclosure

As companies begin submitting their regulatory filings and financial reports from 2011, the SEC is pushing for more comprehensive data breach, cyber attack, and general risk-assessment disclosures. As it stands, companies not only downplay the severity of hacking and other Internet-borne threats ...

Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use: Protecting Electronic Health Information

Since 2009, healthcare providers and other companies providing services to the healthcare industry have been mobilizing to take advantage of government incentives to implement Electronic Health Records or EHRs. These incentives were established by federal law as a part of the HITECH Act of 2009,...

OpenEMR 4.1.0 SQL Injection

Information -------------------- Name : SQL Injection Vulnerability in OpenEMR Software : OpenEMR 4.1.0 and possibly below. Vendor Homepage : http://www.open-emr.org Vulnerability Type : SQL Injection Severity : Critical Researcher : Canberk Bolat Advisory Reference : NS-12-001 Description...

India orders Net firms to censor themselves

India orders Net firms to censor themselves Some of the world's top websites will have to purge themselves of all content that is offensive to Indians by February 6. The companies must update their progress on the effort within two weeks, a court in New Delhi ordered on Saturday, the reports say...

Oracle AutoVue AutoVueX ActiveX Control ExportEdaBom Arbitrary File Overwrite

Added: 11/07/2011 BID: 50332 OSVDB: 76539 Background Oracle AutoVue Enterprise Visualization is a suite of Oracle products designed to deliver a web-based capability to access, view, digitally annotate and collaborate on technical and business documents, without requiring specialized computer-aid...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2334-1] mahara security update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2334-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff November 04, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

German Engineer Arrested In Card Skimming Plot

A German engineer was sentenced to three years in jail on Friday after he was found transporting card skimming technology into Britain according to a report from Reuters UK. Thomas Beeckmann, 26, was stopped at London’s Victoria Coach Station in June with 17 electronic scamming circuits. The...

4.9 million Tricare patients data exposed in data breach

4.9 million Tricare patients data exposed in data breach About 4.9 million patients treated in San Antonio area military treatment facilities since 1992 have been affected by a health information breach involving the theft of backup tapes for electronic health records, federal officials say. Some...