DNS Flood DDoS Attack Hit Video Gaming Industry with 90 Million Requests per Second

Hackers are leveraging large number of compromised machines a botnet network to carry out massive DNS Flood DDoS attack against a large Video Gaming Industry website, peaking above 110 Gbps. A US based security solutions provider Incapsula, is protecting a famous Video Gaming website from this hi...

FBI, NYPD Form Financial Cybercrime Task Force

The FBI has formed a new cybercrime task force with the New York Police Department and the Metropolitan Transit Authority whose job will be to go after high-level financial cyber crimes, employing a model of interagency cooperation that the bureau and other federal law enforcement agencies have...

Google, Microsoft to Implement Mobile 'Kill Switch'

Google and Microsoft will incorporate remote kill switch features into the default builds of their respective mobile operating systems for the first time. Oddly enough, the announcement comes in a joint press release issued by New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, and San Francisco Distri...

[Onapsis Security Advisories] Multiple Hard-coded Usernames in SAP Components

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Onapsis Security Advisories:Multiple Hard-coded Usernames CWE-798 have been found and patched in a variety of SAP components. Summaries of the advisories with links to full versions follow: 1. ONAPSIS-2014-011-SAP Project System Structures and...

Microsoft Privacy Policy Promises No Targeted Advertisements

In a series of revisions to its services agreement, Microsoft says it will not scan the contents of its users’ files nor will it monitor their communications in order to target advertising based on perceived customer interests. The move is a dramatic one when contrasted with many of the Redmond,...

Retailers Form ISAC to Share Threat Data

From the beginning of the cybercrime epidemic, retailers have been among the most frequent targets, and the last year has seen some of the larger compromises in history. The Target data breach is at the top of that list, involving more than 100 million customers, and after years of increasingly...

FedRAMP deadline- Industry and Agency Days

The FedRAMP PMO sent out a notification that they are holding a FedRAMP Industry Day on June 4, 2014 and an Agency Day on June 10, 2014. Items to discuss include the June 5, 2014 deadline, NIST SP 800-53 rev 4 transitions and the 3PAO privitization progress to name a few. We wanted to republish t...

Iranian Ajax Security Team targets US Defense Industry

The Iranian hacking group, which calls itself the “Ajax Security Team”, was quite famous from last few years for websites defacement attacks, and then suddenly they went into dark since past few months. But that doesn't mean that the group was inactive, rather defacing the websites, the group was...

Yahoo Drops Support for Do Not Track

Yahoo, one of the first large Web companies to recognize the Do Not Track header from browsers on its properties, has now backtracked and said it will no longer support DNT. Officials said the lack of an industry standard for DNT that’s effective led to the decision. DNT is an option in the major...

The OpenSSL high-risk vulnerabilities Heartbleed emotion, analysis and recommendations-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

4 May 7, The exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability number CVE-2 0 1 4-0 1 6 0 has been in the IT field especially in the field of information security caused by the great storm. In security circles mixed more than ten years, don't write something some say however go to. So today on this topic,...

SSL Certificate Chain Contains RSA Keys Less Than 2048 bits (PCI DSS)

At least one of the X.509 certificates sent by the remote host has a key that is shorter than 2048 bits. According to industry standards set by the Certification Authority/Browser CA/B Forum, certificates issued after January 1, 2014 must be at least 2048 bits. Some browser SSL implementations ma...

Full Disclosure List Rises From the Ashes For Fresh Start

When the Full Disclosure mailing list closed down last week, many in the security community wondered what, if anything, would fill the void. As it turns out, Full Disclosure will fill that void. John Cartwright, one of the creators of the list, announced on March 19 that he was shutting it down...

Cisco Offers $300,000 Prize For 'Internet of Things' Security Apps

In the last few years, this emerging domain for the Internet of Things has been attracting the significant interest, and will continue for the years to come. It would be a $20 Trillion Market over the next several years, but Security and privacy are the key issues for such applications, and still...

After a Turbulent Year, Still Some Optimism in the Security World

SAN FRANCISCO–Despite all of the revelations and accusations and recriminations in the security industry in the last year, Microsoft’s Scott Charney said he is still optimistic about the industry’s ability to defend users. However, that optimism is tempered by concern about the threats those user...

Ransomware Scam Plagued by Weak Crypto

A new piece of ransomware that emerged earlier this month is encrypting its victim’s files with an easily breakable cryptographic algorithm. BitCrypt, as it is known, purports to lock down files with 1024-bit RSA encryption but actually only deploys a much weaker 426-bit key. According to...

Healthcare IT Security Practices Poor, Systems Compromised

A new report from the SANS Institute warns that the push to digitize all health care records along with the emergence of HealthCare.gov and the general proliferation of electronic protected health information ePHI online will only exacerbate the security problems faced by those that store sensiti...

Swiss Firm Digs Up 300,000+ Usernames/Passwords on Pastebin

More than 300,000 credentials, usernames and passwords, were posted on the clipboard website Pastebin.com in the year 2013 alone according to a recent analysis by a Swiss security firm. As part of an experiment to determine how big the hacking industry is, High-Tech Bridge, a company until now...

Jeremiah Grossman on His New Role as CEO of WhiteHat Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Jeremiah Grossman, the new interim CEO of WhiteHat Security, about taking on the new role, how things have changed since he was CEO 10 years ago and what the biggest challenges will be. Image via @biatch0‘s Flickr photostream, Creative Commons...

RAM Scrapers and the Target Data Breach

The retail and hospitality industries have a painful history with wonky point-of-sale systems and malware known as RAM scrapers. These attacks, which date back as many as six years, are designed to be injected into running processes and steal payment card data before it’s encrypted by a...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Target Data Breach and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the news of the weird in the security industry since the holidays, including the latest revelations about the Target data breach and the decision by some speakers to boycott the RSA Conference because of the NSA revelations. Target image via imprint777‘s Flic...