At FBI's Cyber Crime Conference: Chest Thumping And Head Scratching In Equal Measure

Long content to talk about the “what” behind cyber crime, the nation’s top computer security cops descended on New York City this week for the FBI’s International Conference on Cyber Crime ready to talk about “who.” But while discussions of tools and techniques for identifying criminal actors...

International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World

International Conference on Cyber Security ICCS 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World The FBI is teaming up with Fordham University for the International Conference on Cyber Security. It's an effort to identify emerging cyber threats and develop ways to mitigate those threats. The ZeuS Trojan has...

Facebook Jumps The Shark With IPO, Privacy Backlash

User backlash against Facebook’s ever-evolving but always overreaching data privacy plans is almost as old as the site itself. But there’s good reason to believe that 2012 will mark a turning point for the fast growing social network. For one thing, Facebook is on track for an IPO initial public...

Internet Pioneers, Security Experts Send Letter to Congress Blasting SOPA

A group of engineers, networking specialists, security experts and other specialists deeply involved with the Internet’s development and growth have sent a letter to lawmakers criticizing the highly controversial SOPA and PIPA bills and imploring them not to pass the legislation, which they say...

Facebook Scam Claims Justin Bieber Stabbed

Teen pop sensation and Rachel Maddow look-alike, Justin Bieber, was not stabbed outside a Los Angeles nightclub, nor was he stabbed outside a nightclub in New York, as two current Facebook spam campaigns allege. Reports claiming that the 17 year-old Canadian megastar had been stabbed by a crazed...

National program for Cyber army to be launched in India

National program for Cyber army to be launched inIndia Increasing attacks on cyberspace in India has brought several professionals and experts from the Industry, in support with the Government of India to jointly form a national level program to identify credible and valuable information security...

CVE-2010-4944

SQL injection vulnerability in the Elite Experts comeliteexperts component for Mambo and Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in a showExpertProfileDetailed action to index.php...

CVE-2010-4944

SQL injection vulnerability in the Elite Experts comeliteexperts component for Mambo and Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in a showExpertProfileDetailed action to index.php...

Sql injection

SQL injection vulnerability in the Elite Experts comeliteexperts component for Mambo and Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in a showExpertProfileDetailed action to index.php...

CVE-2010-4944

CVE-2010-4944 describes a SQL injection in the Elite Experts component (com_elite_experts) for Mambo/Joomla! that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL via the id parameter in a showExpertProfileDetailed action to index.php. The issue affects the Joomla!/Mambo integration and is trigge...

CVE-2010-4944

SQL injection vulnerability in the Elite Experts comeliteexperts component for Mambo and Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in a showExpertProfileDetailed action to index.php...

GPU cracks 6 character password in 4 seconds

GPU cracks 6 character password in 4 seconds An nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card, which costs about £30, is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours. Security experts were able to crack a 6 character password in 4 seconds, a 7 character password in less than 5 minutes, and 8...

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Hurry Up Hacker Halted 2011 Special Offer For The Hacker News Readers Special for all The Hacker News subscribers Offer ends Sep 30, 2011 Attend EC-Council's signature event in Miami - Hacker Halted USA - and Get an iPad 2 + 2 nights hotel + an additional 10% discount, when signing up for the...

Linux Foundation Shuts More Web Sites After Discovering Compromise

The ripple effects of an August attack on the website kernel.org washed up on the Linux Foundation last week, forcing the group to take down its Web site and warn users that their account information may have been compromised. A message posted on the Foundation’s Web site, linux.com, over the...

Securing Education Networks: Lessons Learned

Join Paul Roberts, Threatpost editor, and our panel of experts as they discuss security regulations, concerns and challenges within the Education market. Along with Paul, Steve Mazzola of Belmont Public Schools, David Escalante of Boston College and Josh Corman of the 451 Group provide hands-on...

Colbert: U.S. Should 'Unleash' Kevin Mitnick As A Secret Weapon

We all know that the fake news shows like The Daily Show and Colbert Report are a lot smarter and more informative than the nightly “GlobalCarWreckStrangerAbductionSportsHighlight” montage that passes for the local news. Last night’s interview of famed hacker and security consultant Kevin Mitnick...

Microsoft to Pay $200,000 for Innovative Defense Technology in Blue Hat Prize Program

LAS VEGAS–In the face of mounting external pressure to begin paying bug bounties, Microsoft is instead launching a new program that will pay a $200,000 top prize to a security researcher who develops the most innovative defensive security technology. The program is designed to “inspire researcher...

90000 web pages infected by mass iFrame attack

90000 web pages infected by mass iFrame attack Security Experts Wayne Huang, Chris Hsiao, NightCola Lin discovered that more than 90000 web pages are infected by mass iFrame attack. There's been a mass scale injection ongoing recently, with the injected iframe pointing to willysy.com . Just Try a...

New iOS Jail Break Stokes Fears of Drive By Attacks

The clock is ticking for Apple to issue a patch for the iOS operating system that powers iPhones, iPods and iPads following the release of a remote exploit that uses specially crafted PDF files to defeat iOS’s content protection mechanisms and “jailbreak” mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad...

While U.S. Plots Cyber Strategy, Experts See Obstacles Ahead

The release of the International Strategy for Cyberspace late last month marked a major shift in the way that United States officials think about and treat information security, which now seems as if it will have a place at the table during diplomatic discussions. However, experts and U.S...