How I Got Here: Kelly Jackson Higgins

Dennis Fisher talks with Kelly Jackson Higgins of DarkReading about her childhood days creating her own newspapers, her ambitions to be a sportswriter, getting into technology journalism and the fun and craziness of covering the security industry. Download: 14jacksonhiggins.mp3 Music by Chris...

Expanding Use of PKI in Variety of Devices Holds Challenges

LAS VEGAS–One of the longest running jokes in the security industry is that each coming year finally will be The Year of PKI. While that one huge year never materialized, the use of PKI and digital certificates has become an integral part of how the Internet works today. But there are some...

Cyberattacks Most Imminent Threat to U.S., Economy

ALEXANDRIA, Va – In a panel discussion Monday morning, a crowded table of top-level security experts from industry, military and government agreed that the threat posed by cyberattacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure and private industry now outweighs any other national security threat...

Effects full version Windows: iSIGHT surveillance espionage found Windows latest 0day vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

the iSIGHT in Russian cyber-espionage discovered to affect all versions of Windows System with the latest 0day vulnerabilities, vulnerability number CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4, At present, Microsoft is the emergency of the vulnerability of making the patch. ! Yesterday, Microsoft partners iSIGHT Partner...

Wiretapping storm: the Android platform https sniffing hijacking vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0x0 Preface Last year 1 0 mid-May, Tencent Security Center in the daily terminal Safety audits found that, in the Android platform used in https communication of app the vast majority of are not safe to use the google API, a direct result of https communication of sensitive information leakage ev...

Hackers publish the BadUSB fix patch only applies to the latest version of the group with the USB 3.0 firmware-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Last week, two hackers announced they had the BadUSB code reverse engineering, and on GitHub published. As for the reason for this, is to give the industry the pressure is applied, in order to quickly come up with a solution--although doing so will also make the user more vulnerable to face...

BlueHat v14 is almost here

It’s that time of year and BlueHat v14 is almost upon us. As always, BlueHat is an opportunity for us to bring the brightest minds in security together, both internal and external, to discuss and tackle some of the hardest problems facing the industry today. Through this conference, our engineeri...

Bash vulnerability again evolution: a buffer overflow resulting in remote arbitrary command execution-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In recent days, the“Shellshock”Bash vulnerability appeared it is to the security industry Put a heavy bomb, more and more manufacturers and black and white hats have added to the analysis of the camp which, at the same time also one after another burst more for the Bash vulnerability, the apparen...

Information Sharing on Threats Seen as a Key for Auto Makers

A small segment of the security research community has been spending a lot of time tearing apart the innards of various vehicles and looking at ways that the computers and local networks that reside in modern cars can be hacked. There has been some remarkable success on this front, and while auto...

Google 'Sunsetting' Weak SHA-1 Crypto Algorithm

Google announced Friday it will begin the process of phasing out the obsolete SHA-1 cryptographic hash algorithm with the upcoming release of version 39 of the company’s Chrome browser in November. After the November release, Chrome will no longer fully trust sites whose certificate chains trust...

CVE-2014-5560

The Popscene Music Industry Sim aka air.Popscene application 1.04 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5560

The Popscene Music Industry Sim aka air.Popscene application 1.04 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5560

The CVE-2014-5560 entry concerns the Android app Popscene (Music Industry Sim) / air.Popscene version 1.04 that fails to verify SSL X.509 certificates. Root cause: missing certificate validation in SSL/TLS connections, which can allow MITM attackers to spoof servers and capture/reveal sensitive i...

Stop Hitting the Snooze Button

In the aftermath of the most damaging retail breach in history, a CEO in the financial industry explained his companys position on the issue:...

U-Mail Mail Service system arbitrary file upload+execution vulnerabilities runtime defects and authentication bypass）-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Brief description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONtaken from website U-Mail focus on email field 1 to 5 years, for enterprises to easily build the most secure and stable e-mail system software. Keywords: 1 5 years the safest most stable 1 5 year the safest and most stable , woxaole,so wonderful code, so...

Keeping your restaurant & hospitality Cardholder Data Environment safe

Reports of new credit card data breaches seem to be in the news daily. Recent high profile breaches within major retailers this year should serve as a wake-up call to the restaurant and hospitality industries. As a result of having high volumes of credit card transactions and decentralized securi...

Leahy Introduces Bill to End Bulk Call Record Collection

Sen. Patrick Leahy has introduced an updated, tougher version of the USA FREEDOM Act that would end the bulk collection of data under Section 215 of FISA and also would require the appointment of a panel of special legal advocates who would represent the interests of individual privacy and civil...

Secret Services Issues Warning to Hospitality Industry, Now What?

The U.S. Secret Service has issued an advisory to the hospitality industry to be on alert for keyloggers on the computers in the business center. Whether your hotel received this advice or not, this is something that will undoubtedly affect your business in the near future. Weve put together this...

Response work is not in place the Heartbleed vulnerability still exist-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In the high-profile Heartbleed vulnerability is exposure of more than a month after the investigation found that this serious OpenSSL vulnerability still exists in the hundreds of thousands of servers and some SSL port, this is mainly because the entire industry response to the work is not in...

Crowdsourcing a Tool for Application Vulnerability Research

Pulling in security help on a project has traditionally meant either hiring more full-time help, or bringing in an outside consultant. Enterprises and vendors alike, however, are starting to really go outside the perimeter these days and are taking advantage of crowdsourcing. Given the paranoia i...