Researcher Tries to Get Ahead of CFAA Changes, Dumps 10M Sanitized Passwords

The Obama administration’s proposed changes to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA have security researchers on edge. The amendments, spurred on by 2014’s seemingly never-ending stream of data breaches, contain vagaries in their language that threaten legitimate research done in the name of improvi...

FCC Warns Businesses WiFi Blocking is Illegal

In the wake of a recent enforcement action against Marriott for blocking guests’ WiFi hotspots in their hotels, the FCC is warning other hotel operators and business owners that such blocking is illegal and the commission’s Enforcement Bureau is taking note. Marriott last year paid a fine of...

Police Using High-Tech Device to See Through Walls Warrantlessly

We are all aware of the mass surveillance conducted by the government agencies on us. From our phone calls, emails to web activities, chats and social network activities, everything has been interrupted by the law enforcements. And now they have crossed every limits by using a new way to spy on...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2451-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Teen Arrested in UK for Xbox, PlayStation Attacks

Police in the UK, working in cooperation with the FBI, arrested an 18-year-old man Friday in connection with recent DDoS attacks on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live services. The authorities arrested the unnamed man in Southport, and he is being held on suspicion of computer crime and...

CVE-2014-1425

cmanager 0.32 does not properly enforce nesting when modifying cgroup properties, which allows local users to set cgroup values for all cgroups via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2014-1425

cmanager 0.32 does not properly enforce nesting when modifying cgroup properties, which allows local users to set cgroup values for all cgroups via unspecified vectors...

Morgan Stanley Insider Theft Wealth Management Client Data

The financial services giant Morgan Stanley announced yesterday that that an employee had stolen sensitive information pertaining to more than 900 of the firm’s wealth-management clients. According to a company press release, the wealth management employee in question “has been terminated.”...

CVE-2014-1425

cmanager 0.32 does not properly enforce nesting when modifying cgroup properties, which allows local users to set cgroup values for all cgroups via unspecified vectors...

Tor Project Warns of Possible Upcoming Attack on Network

The Tor Project is warning that an unnamed attacker is planning to try to cripple the network by seizing directory authorities, the servers that help Tor clients find Tor relays in the network. Tor officials said that the network right now is still safe to use, and also emphasized that they are...

DOJ Launches Cyber Unit, Claims Privacy is Mission Critical

WASHINGTON D.C. – Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice announced on Thursday the creation of a new team within its Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section CCIPS during a talk at a Georgetown Law conference titled, “Cybercrime...

Unreleased Sony Pictures Movies Leaked Online After Sony Hack Attack

Following the last week's massive hack attack on Sony Pictures' network by a group calling themselves "GOP," or Guardians of Peace, high-quality versions of several of the studio's newest films have hit piracy websites. It seems like matters for Sony Pictures is getting worse with time. Sony...

WhatsApp Messenger Adds End-to-End Encryption by Default

Good news for all Privacy Lovers!! Finally the wildly popular messaging app WhatsApp has made end-to-end encryption a default feature, stepping a way forward for the online privacy of its users around the world. WhatsApp, most popular messaging app with 600 Million users as of October 2014, has...

Design/Logic Flaw

Apple iOS before 8.1.1 does not properly enforce the failed-passcode limit, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock-screen protection mechanism via a series of guesses...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Cross-domain Information Disclosure (MS14-065: CVE-2014-6345)

An Information disclosure vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to improper enforcement of cross-domain policies. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a user to open a specially crafted web-page with an affected version of Interne...

Chinese Telecom Routes Russian Domestic Internet Traffic through China

Russian Internet traffic, including the domestic one, has continuously been re-routed outside the country due to routing errors by China Telecom, which could result in compromising the security of Russian communications. Internet monitoring service Dyn reported Thursday in a blog post that the...

More than 400 Underground Sites seized by FBI in 'Operation Onymous'

The joint operation by authorities of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and European law enforcement seized Silk Road 2.0, an alternative to the notorious online illegal-drug marketplace last week, and arrested 26-year-old operator Blake Benthall, but that wasn't the end. US and Europe...

The PCI Enforcement Hammer is Ready to Drop

The time for nervous anticipation for PCI breach response is over …. VISA has issued dramatic PCI Data Security Standard Compliance enforcement guidance for Level 1 and 2 merchants and all Service Providers. Effective January 1st, 2015, noncompliance costs will be applied sooner and will escalate...

AOL Releases Transparency Report Lobbies for USA FREEDOM Act

Noting that Saturday was the 13th anniversary of the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Web giant AOL this week released its latest transparency report, detailing estimations of how many Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA orders and National Security Letters NSLs it’s received in the las...

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...