FBI Director James B. Comey RSA Conference Keynote

SAN FRANCISCO – Outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller predicted to his successor James B. Comey that cybersecurity would dominate his 10-year tenure much the same way terrorism did Mueller’s. “After five months, he’s right,” Comey said today during his keynote address at RSA Conference 2014. Comey...

Congress to Consider Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill

The National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013 would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to better protect the country against potentially destructive cyber attacks targeting national utilities and other critical infrastructure systems. The House Subcommittee on...

NSA Officials Say Snowden Used Legitimate Access to Steal Data

It’s taken more than six months, but top officials at the National Security Agency are finally discussing some of the details of how former agency contractor Edward Snowden got access to all of the documents he stole and what kind of damage they believe the publication of the information they...

Automated Attack, Threat Intelligence Sharing Sought

BOSTON – If you’re looking for tangible information sharing success stories around attack intelligence, some might point to the prompt publishing of indicators of compromise IOC as an example. Security and forensics companies will publish MD5 hashes of malware, IP addresses involved in attacks,...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Information Sharing Notification Email Messages on November 10, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31699 First Published: 2013 November 11 20:38 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain information for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the recipient to follow a...

China: 'We are ready for International cooperation to deal with cyber security Challenges'

Yesterday at Stanford University in the United States, Cyber Security Experts and Leaders from more than 40 countries gathered to talk about the cyberspace security problems and cooperation among countries. The need for international cooperation in cybersecurity is evident, due to the nature of...

Experian Sells Data to Identity theives

The credit bureau Experian appears to have sold an unknown amount of highly sensitive personal information to a Vietnamese national who maintained an online identity theft service, according to a long-running investigative report published by Krebs on Security reporter Brian Krebs. Experian, whic...

Alexander: 'FISA is the Key to Connecting the Dots'

WASHINGTON–Faced with trying to accomplish its mission in an environment that suddenly has become quite hostile and inquisitive about its methods, the National Security Agency is becoming more and more public about the challenges that lie ahead and how the agency plans to address them. One of the...

NSA's Alexander Appeals For Threat Information Sharing

WASHINGTON– While Congress and the technology community are still debating and discussing the intelligence gathering capabilities of NSA revealed in recent months, the agency’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, is not just defending the use of these existing tools, but is pitching the idea of shari...

New Jigsaw Hacking Tool Spotted in Attacks

If you’ve run an internal phishing exercise, chances are you may have used Jigsaw, an open source penetration testing tool that enables security teams to automatically generate email address combinations from a minimal amount of public information. As with other open source security and networkin...

[MISP v2.1] Malware Information Sharing Platform

The problem that we experienced in the past was the difficulty to exchange information about targeted malwares and attacks within a group of trusted partners, or a bilateral agreement. Even today much of the information exchange happens in unstructured reports where you have to copy-paste the...

NIST Seeks Guidance on Incident Response and Forensics

The federal government is looking for some help in figuring out how to respond to security incidents. As attacks continue to escalate against both government agencies and private enterprises, NIST is developing a set of standards for best practices in incident response and computer forensics. The...

General Talks Security at Brookings Institution

General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear yesterday in a speech to the Brookings Institution that the military, government, and private sector each has a role to play in hardening the U.S. against cyberattacks. General Dempsey also called out the maintainers of...

[Dradis Pro v1.7] Framework to enable effective information sharing

Dradis Pro is framework to enable effective information sharing, specially during security assessments. Dradis is a self-contained web application that provides a centralised repository of information to keep track of what has been done so far, and what is still ahead. Changelog v1.7 This is the...

Threat, Attack Data Intelligence Sharing Efforts Fall Short

DENVER – When it comes to information sharing, are companies too scared or too selfish to trade attack data? A number of information security officers from high-profile companies debated the topic this week at the NG Security Summit and came to the conclusion that it’s a little bit of both. Shari...

Carna Botnet Analysis Enumerates Vulnerable Network Devices

The Carna botnet, more formally known as the Internet Census 2012, stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy when it was unveiled in March to a number of popular security mailing lists. An unidentified researcher had found more than 420,000 embedded devices that were accessible online with defaul...

Russian Police, Cybersecurity Company Arrest Cybercriminal

If you’ve ever sat in on a cybersecurity hearing on Capitol Hill or attended a security conference , then you’re no doubt familiar with the oft-preached need for information sharing and private-public partnerships. So frequently repeated are these refrains that they’re almost as meaningless as th...

The Controversial CISPA Is Back in Congress

Updated 4/10/13: The U.S. House Intelligence Committee voted 18-2 for the new version of CISPA, with the two dissents coming from Democrat members of the committee. “This is clearly not a theoretical threat – the recent spike in advanced cyber attacks against the banks and newspapers makes that...

Seven-Year Facebook Study Warns of 'Silent Listeners'

Facebook users are sharing less information publicly, yet continue to share countless bits of information with what one group of researchers has dubbed “silent listeners.” The researchers, from Carnegie Mellon University, recently wrapped up the world’s first multiyear, longitudinal privacy study...

Google Play privacy issue, sends app buyers personal details to developers

Google is again under attack for its apparent mishandling of its users’ personal information. An Australian software developer 'Dan Nolan' revealed that the search giant was sending him the full names, email and post codes of everyone who purchased his app on Google's Play. In a blog post, Nolan...