RSA SecurIDs Get Cracked In 13 Minutes

RSA SecurIDs Get Cracked In 13 Minutes Major corporations, government agencies, and small businesses all hand out RSA SecurID fob keychains to employees so that they can log in to their systems for security reasons and If you're used to seeing a device like this on a daily basis, you probably...

NSA intercepting 1.7 billion American electronic communications daily

NSA intercepting 1.7 billion American electronic communications daily Since 9/11, the Agency has been able to "spy" on electronic communications without the need for court-approved warrants. The group has a large complex in Utah that cost $2 billion and holds the data. In 2006 the New York Times...

DHS Warns About Threat Of Mobile Devices In Healthcare

In a bulletin, the Department of Homeland Security DHS is warning healthcare organizations about the threat posed by insecure, network attached medical devices and the proliferation of smart phones, tablet PCs and other mobile devices in medical settings. DHS’s National Cybersecurity and...

UNC-Charlotte Data Breaches Expose 350,000 Social Security Numbers and Much More

Confidential data, including bank account and Social Security numbers for some 350,000 University of North Carolina-Charlotte students, staff and faculty, were accidentally exposed — some for almost 15 years — due to a system misconfiguration and incorrect access settings that made electronic dat...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: mozilla-https-everywhere-2.0.3-2.fc16

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to...

Half Of Massachusetts Residents Victims Of Data Breach In Last Four Years

Data from the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation OCABR shows that 3.2 million residents – almost half the population of the state- have been the victim of a data breach in the last four years. The report finds that 1,833 breaches have been reported to the State by a wi...

Anonymous Knocks CISPA Supporters Offline

The Anonymous Internet collective is claiming responsibility for DDoS attacks that reportedly knocked offline the websites of prominent defense contractor, Boeing, and two trade associations, TechAmerica and USTelecom. The website of TechAmerica remained down Wednesday afternoon. In a phone...

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 ...