Obama wants Internet ID for Every American !!

Everyone in the UK will already be familiar with this story with the New Labour's plan for biometric identity cards. That plan, which costs billions of pounds and was later shelved by the new coalition government, will now probably never happen in the UK. Now US President Barak Obama wants to...

UConn Co-op website hacked !

Storrs : A computer hacker accessed the customer database of HuskyDirect.com, a website that sells sports paraphernalia from the UConn Co-op, prompting the store to order the vendor that manages the site to take it down. The Co-op announced Tuesday that it has notified law enforcement of the...

Kerala Computer Emergency Response Team launches operations !

The Kerala Government has announced the launch of the Computer Emergency Response Team, Kerala CERT-K as the nodal agency for monitoring various cyber security related incidents in the State. Chief Minister Shri V S Achuthanandan formally announced the launch of operations today. The agency will...

Kenya police site hacked, hacker thought about Mark Zuckerberg !

This kind of thing tends to happen from time to time, though this time it seems that Mark Zuckerberg's name has been dragged into it. A hacker out there managed to hack into Kenya's law enforcement body's website and post some graffiti there, which is some kind of tribute to Facebook's co-founder...

FBI Audit Finds Minor Security Gaps in Belfast Police Department

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI recently identified minor security gaps in the Internet security procedures of the Belfast Police Department during a fall audit. Local officials acknowledged the need to address these issues over the next few years. The department was chosen randomly for t...

Data Breach Could Test Massachusetts Law

UPDATE: The Massachusetts Attorney General has been notified that financial data on 1,800 residents were exposed in a database breach linked to CitySights NY, a sightseeing firm. The case could set the stage for enforcement of the State’s nine month-old data privacy law.Financial data on 1,850...

Law Enforcement Officers Witness Cyber Theft Demonstration at UNLV Conference

Nearly 100 law enforcement officers recently witnessed how easily an identity thief can steal electronic information. During a UNLV conference, a cybercrime expert used a $30 device to intercept data from their smartphones. Welcome to the dark side of the 21st century. As technology advances, so ...

DSA-2134-1 upcoming changes in advisory format

Traditionally Debian Security Advisories have included MD5 check sums of the updated packages. This was introduced at a time when apt didn't exist yet and BIND was at version 4. Since apt cryptographically enforces the integrity of the archive for quite some time now, we've decided to finally dro...

Hackers Steal Customer Data from McDonald's Partner Database

McDonald's is collaborating with law enforcement after malicious hackers infiltrated another company's database and stole information about an unknown number of the fast-food chain's customers. McDonald's has alerted potentially affected customers via email and through a message on its website. "...

Vigilant Hacker-Activist Allegedly Searched and Seized

It is being reported that the internet hacker-activist calling himself the Jester who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks Sunday has been the subject of a search and seizure by local law enforcement officials. The raid reportedly took place Monday according to a blog posted...

Vigilant Hacker-Activist Allegedly Searched and Seized

It is being reported that the internet hacker-activist calling himself the Jester who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks Sunday has been the subject of a search and seizure by local law enforcement officials. The raid reportedly took place Monday according to a blog posted...

EU, U.S., and NATO Approve New Plans to Combat Cybercrime

Over the past three days, the European Union, the U.S., and NATO have approved new plans to combat cybercrime. On Monday, the European Commission announced its proposals to develop three systems aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for citizens and businesses. First, the E.U. plans to establish a...

Report Alleges Bredolab-Spamit Connections

Law enforcement crackdowns in recent weeks have targeted two major contributors to worldwide spam: Spamit.com and the Bredolab botnet. Now a new report suggests that the two cases may be related. A report on Krebsonsecurity.com claims that the recent arrest of a 27 year-old man, identified as Geo...

Canada Aims to Strengthen Cyber Defense with $90 Million Security Plan

Canada released its Cybersecurity Strategy this month, emphasizing the immense challenge of protecting government and corporate computer systems. “There is no simple way to detect, identify, and recover from attackers who cannot be seen or heard, who leave no physical evidence behind them, and wh...

Feds Raid Home of Former Raytheon Employee

Federal agents on Monday raided the Melrose, Massachusetts home of a missile systems expert who formerly worked at U.S. defense contractor Raytheon. Several boxes of items were taken by FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the home, which is owned by Richard M. Lloyd. According...

New Malware Murofet Following Conficker's Lead

It’s been a blissful few months since Conficker last reared its over-hyped head, but now there’s a new piece of malware that is adopting some of the tactics that Conficker used. The malware, known as Murofet, is using Conficker’s technique of generating thousands of new domains for updates every...

Cryptome Outs Identities of Hackers Behind Breach

Less than a week after the Cryptome.org archive was hacked and defaced, the site has posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of two individuals it accuses of being involved in the attack. In an update on Friday, Cryptome founder John Young posted contact information for three individuals he...

USN-1002-1: PostgreSQL vulnerability

It was discovered that PostgreSQL did not properly enforce permissions within sessions when PL/Perl and PL/Tcl functions or operators were redefined. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with permissions of a different user, possibly leading to privilege...

Facebook's Future: More Koobfaces

VANCOUVER – Working as Facebook’s resident malware researcher is a lonely job, for now. But Nick Bilogorskiy doesn’t expect it to stay that way. In fact, Facebook’s biggest security challenge will be building up its capabilities to identify and tamp down malware infections like the 2009 Koobface...

FBI Wants to Mandate Surveillance Backdoors

Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Read the full article...