Staples Investigating Payment Data Card Breach

The office supply chain Staples Inc. is reportedly looking into a payment card breach, potentially making it the latest in a long line of retail establishments to suffer a compromise over the last year. “Staples is in the process of investigating a potential issue involving credit card data and h...

CVE-2014-4446

Mail Service in Apple OS X Server before 4.0 does not enforce SACL changes until after a service restart, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging a change made by an administrator...

Mobile Device Encryption Could Lead to a 'Very, Very Dark Place', FBI Director Says

FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that the recent movement toward default encryption of smartphones and other devices could “lead us to a very, very dark place.” Echoing comments made by law enforcement officials for the last several decades, Comey said that the advanced cryptosystems...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : GnuTLS vulnerability (SOL15637)

The gnutlsciphertext2compressed function in lib/gnutlscipher.c in GnuTLS 2.12.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer over-read and crash via a crafted padding length. NOTE: this might be due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-0169. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Tyupkin Malware Hacking ATM Machines Worldwide

Money is always a perfect motivation for cyber criminals who tries different tricks to solely target users with card skimmers that steal debit card numbers, but now the criminals are using specialized malware that targets ATM Automated Teller Machine systems to withdraw cash even without the need...

Forward Incremental – Animation of Method and Retention

Purpose This article is intended to document how Forward Incremental works, and how its retention is enforced. Solution There are two distinct methods of Forward Incremental: Forever Forward Incremental Forward Incremental with Periodic Fulls Forever Forward Incremental For more information...

Reverse Incremental – Animation of Method and Retention

Purpose This article is intended to document how Reversed Incremental works, and how its retention is enforced. Reverse Incremental Backup Method For information regarding this Backup Method please review the user guide. Reverse Incremental Restore Point Creation The following is an animation...

FBI to Open Up Malware Investigator Portal to External Researchers

SEATTLE–The FBI has developed an internal malware-analysis tool, somewhat akin to the systems used by antimalware companies, and plans to open the system up to external security researchers, academics and others. The system is known as Malware Investigator and is designed to allow FBI agents and...

FBI Not Happy With Apple & Google's Encryption Policy

Users might have praised the technology companies for efforts to encrypt their latest devices that would prevent law enforcement agencies’ hands on users’ private data, but the FBI is not at all happy with Apple and Google right now. The Federal Bureau of Investigation director, James Comey, said...

Users in Dark about Permissions Granted to Mobile Apps

It’s no secret that mobile applications are a greedy bunch, often grasping for many more permissions than necessary. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office ICO this week released the results of a study conducted by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network GPEN that quantified just how bad the...

Home Depot Urges Credit Monitoring Vigilance

Home Depot told its customers today to monitor their bank and credit card accounts for fraud as it continues to investigate the “unusual activity” on its networks that could turn out to be one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. history. “We’re looking into some unusual activity that might...

Home Depot Investigating Massive Data Breach

Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a costly data breach, and if early indications are correct, the hackers may have been on the home giant’s network longer than hackers were on Target’s systems, and a greater number of consumers may be at risk. A Home Depot representative confirmed...

Data Breach Exposes Customer Payment Card Information

Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU announced yesterday that a data breach may have exposed the credit and debit card information of an unknown number of its customers at various grocery store locations in more than 18 states. Behind Kroger’s, Albertsons is the second largest grocery store...

Digital Forensics Toolkit: DEFT

DEFT acronym for Digital Evidence & Forensics Toolkit is a distribution made for Computer Forensics, with the purpose of running live on systems without tampering or corrupting devices hard disks, pendrives, etc… connected to the PC where the boot process takes place. The system is based on GNU...

Fedora 19 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.6-1.fc19 (2014-8577)

phpMyAdmin 4.2.6.0 2014-07-17 =============================== - Undefined index warning with referenced column. - $cfg'MaxExactCount' is ignored when BROWSING is back - Multi Column sorting improved user experience - Server validation does not work while in setup/mysqli - Undefined variable when...

CryptoLocker Infections Continue as New Rasomware Evolves

U.S. and European law enforcement officials last month, performed a coordinated takedown of the GameOver Zeus botnet. At the time, they claimed that the operation also neutralized the infamous CryptoLocker ransomware, which criminals had distributed using GameOver’s infrastructure. However, Tyler...

International Authorities Take Down Shylock Banking Malware

Like most profitable criminal enterprises, the Shylock banking malware thrived because it was supported by a nimble infrastructure that allowed it to stay one step ahead of network and security monitoring capabilities, and the authorities. That race ended this week. Europol announced today that i...

New Verizon Transparency Report Shows Large Government Appetite for Location, Content Data

Verizon said in a new transparency report that though the number of some kinds of orders dropped–including wiretap orders and warrants–others rose, including general orders and pen register and trap and trace orders, and the company received nearly 150,000 total orders in the first half of 2014...

miniLock - Open Source File Encryption Tool from CryptoCat Developer

It’s the age of surveillance what made the Use of Encryption so widely that it has become a need of law enforcement agencies, cyber criminals as well as every individual. But, encryption is not so easy. To solve this problem, a 23-year old Cryptocat developer Nadim Kobeissi is ready to release a...

Researchers Uncover Spying Tool Used by Governments to Hijack all Types of Smartphones

Purchasing malware to victimize people is illegal by laws but if the same thing any government official do, then its not!! Yes, the police forces around the World are following the footsteps of U.S. National Security Agency NSA and FBI. Researchers from the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Globa...