Department of Education Lambasted Over Database Vulnerabilities

Like the Office of Personnel Management before it, the Department of Education has failed to heed repeated warnings that its systems contain multiple weaknesses. In a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing held this week, Congressman and committee chair Jason Chaffetz R-Utah...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the MySQL bug, OpenSSL and the House Crypto Hearing

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the post-RSA news, including the MySQL bug, the progress of the OpenSSL overhaul and the wildly entertaining House hearing on crypto backdoors. Download: digitalunderground200.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

FBI Pleads For Crypto Subversion in Congressional Budget Hearing

In a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing this morning on the FBI budget for the upcoming fiscal year, FBI Director James Comey was again critical of new encryption features from Apple and Google that he claims would make it impossible for law enforcement to access the contents of mobile...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: pairs-4.14.1-1.fc20

Pairs is a collection of games aimed to help the development of preschool children. With these games the child can improve memory, logic, hearing and even reading skills. Each game can have different themes so the child is stimulated with different and new challenges...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Court Hearing Documents Email Messages on January 2, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32312 First Published: 2014 January 3 18:40 GMT Last Updated: 2014 January 7 13:33 GMT Version: 3 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a court appearance notice. The text in the email message attempts to...

Google, Facebook, Yahoo File NSL Transparency Motions

Google, Yahoo and Facebook filed amended requests today with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court FISC reiterating their desire to publish numbers on requests for user data related to national security. Google, meanwhile, went a step further asking for an open, public hearing with the...

Fedora Update for pairs FEDORA-2013-10182

Check for the Version of pairs OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pairs FEDORA-2013-10182 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: pairs-4.10.4-1.fc17

Pairs is a collection of games aimed to help the development of preschool children. With these games the child can improve memory, logic, hearing and even reading skills. Each game can have different themes so the child is stimulated with different and new challenges...

Fedora Update for pairs FEDORA-2013-10130

Check for the Version of pairs OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pairs FEDORA-2013-10130 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: pairs-4.10.4-1.fc19

Pairs is a collection of games aimed to help the development of preschool children. With these games the child can improve memory, logic, hearing and even reading skills. Each game can have different themes so the child is stimulated with different and new challenges...

Thinksns microblogging system injection vulnerability a gold-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Author: Liuker Blog: www.2bhack.net I recently nothing to do Don't ask me how the audit of the color of the pen don't know what is audit? Visually it is a few friends have seen me audit the code time to give them a screenshot Just get some. In a few days and then engage in several section of the...

Critics Continue Pushing for Bigger Probe into Google Street View Practices

Privacy advocates continue urging for a wider federal investigation into Google Street View practices following Google’s $25,000 fine for stonewalling federal officials during an earlier probe of Wi-Fi snooping allegations. The Federal Communications Commission late last week gave the Internet...

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail Kim Dotcom, the millionaire founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, was released on bail Wednesday after a judge said he didn't appear to have enough money to flee. Authorities in the U.S. allege founder Kim Dotcom facilitated millions of...

Apple, Google to Testify at Smart Phone Tracking Hearing

After a bruising series of revelations about location tracking features on mobile devices running their operating systems, Apple and Google will send executives to Capitol Hill to talk to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law about cell phone privacy. Guy L. “Bud”...

Users File Suit Against Apple Over iPhone Tracking

A pair of Apple customers has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that Apple is invading their privacy by collecting location data about iPhone and iPad users without their knowledge. The suit follows the revelation last week by security researchers that Apple is collecting and storing...

Julian Assange's hacking offences revealed in Australian court documents !!

IN 1991, using just a "simple, basic computer" from his home in suburban Melbourne, a young Julian Assange created a program that allowed him to access about 11,000 computers belonging to the giant Canadian telecommunications company Northern Telecom. New details of the WikiLeaks founder's early...

Adelaide Hacker Infects 2,370 Computers in Global Cyber Attack

An Adelaide hacker infected over 2,000 computers in Australia and overseas with a program designed to capture banking details, a court has heard. Anthony Scott Harrison, 20, learned hacking and programming skills online and launched his attack in 2009. He was caught when suspicious web activity w...

Experts call for White House lead on cybersecurity

In case you’ve missed it, there’s been a lot of talking in Washington lately about the need for major changes to the way that information security is handled in the federal government as well as the private sector. So far that talk hasn’t led to much in the way of action, but that may be on the...