Cybersecurity Executive Order Short on Action, Long on Voluntary Initiatives

The executive order that President Barack Obama signed yesterday in advance of his State of the Union Address contains a lot of provisions for information sharing on attacks and threats on critical infrastructure, and also calls for the development of a framework to reduce cybersecurity risks in...

Obama Cybersecurity Executive Order Expected Tomorrow

This week figures to be a high-profile time for cybersecurity on Capitol Hill. Reports say President Barack Obama will issue a long-awaited executive order shortly after tonight’s State of the Union address, while another stab at getting the controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill signed into law...

DHS Secretary Warns of Potential Cyber Attacks

There is no shortage of problems for President Obama and the new Congress to tackle as they settle into their offices in Washington, D.C., this week, and one of the topics that’s at the top of that list is cybersecurity. Earlier this week a group of Democratic senators introduced a new...

Senate Introduces Cybersecurity Bill that Prioritizes Information Sharing

The United States Senate says it will prioritize the passage of a comprehensive cybersecurity bill designed to fortify the nation’s public and private IT systems in this session of Congress. Senators John D. Rockefeller IV D-WV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation...

Regulator Warns Banks About DDoS Attacks, Encourages Information Sharing

In an alert issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC, Deputy Comptroller for Operational Risk Carolyn G. DuChene warned financial and other critical institutions about the wave of ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting their networks. DuChene is urging the...

National Strategy Could Nudge Security Information Sharing Forward

In the early days of the Obama administration, the president declared cyberspace a critical asset. Since then, little more than lip service has been paid on a policy level to the security of the country’s critical infrastructure, despite increasing public awareness of the problem and high-profile...

[TOR v0.2.3.25] Virtual Network Tunneling Tool

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. It provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow...

Adequate Attack Data and Threat Information Sharing No Longer a Luxury

BOSTON – While some industry groups such as the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center FS-ISAC and cross-industry groups such as the Advanced Cyber Security Center ACSC facilitate the exchange of threat information, for the most part organizations are still hamstrung by legal...

New FERC Cybersecurity Office Has Lofty Oversight and Outreach Goals

When it comes to cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, there are generally more questions than answers. And for the last 10 months or so, the volume of concern and uncertainty has ramped up, largely because there’s little in the way of productive information sharing on threats, a serious lac...

Feds Show Up at DEF CON and Black Hat, But This Time to Talk, Not Snoop

LAS VEGAS–The Black Hat conference is now officially an adolescent, and like most in that age group, it has gone through some growing pains in its life. Once criticized for giving too much of a platform for offensive research, and then, after its sale a few years ago to a media conglomerate, ding...

Pressure Mounts For Cybersecurity Bill As Negotiations Stall

A joint letter from some of Washington D.C.’s leading minds in the areas of defense and diplomacy is urging Congress to pass a cyber security bill in some form this year, saying that the U.S. is urgently in need of a new policy and ill-prepared for cyber attacks. The letter, dated June 6, was...

Financial Industry Needs Government Supoport with Security, Not Regulation

Regulation is not the answer. That’s what the CISO of Regions Bank, Michele B. Cantley repeatedly responded with when asked what the government can do to improve the financial sector’s current security climate in a hearing hosted by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

DoD Program Expanded, Designed to Share Threat Information

The Pentagon on Friday invited a slew of government contractors to meet and share classified information on cyber threats going forward, part of an initiative that the department hopes will reduce the risk of intrusions to government systems. The information sharing model that the Department of...

Pentagon boosts contractor cybersecurity program

Pentagon boosts contractor cybersecurity program The US Defense Department invited all of its eligible contractors on Friday to join a previously restricted information-sharing pact aimed at guarding sensitive Pentagon program data stored on private computer networks. The Pentagon predicts that a...

Security Experts, Internet Engineers Urge Lawmakers to Drop CISPA

A long list of security, networking and computer science experts have signed a letter sent to lawmakers on Monday, asking them to drop support for CISPA and other proposed cybersecurity bills because they consider the measures overly broad and say they would infringe on users’ privacy and civil...

The Security Game Needs to Change

SAN FRANCISCO–You don’t need to look too hard or talk to too many people at the RSA Conference here this week to realize that there is one subtle but persistent signal amid all of the noise: security is failing.It’s not news that things are broken. They’ve been broken for a while now, and not jus...

Open-Source Collaboration Framework: Dradis

Collaboration and reporting framework for InfoSec teams Some of the features: Platform independent Markup support for the notes: text styles, code blocks, images, links, etc. Integration with existing systems and tools: Brakeman Burp Suite MediaWiki Metasploit Nessus NeXpose Nikto Nmap OpenVAS...

Banks Coming Together To Fight Hackers, Prevent Attacks

Major banks like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group and Bank of America are putting together plans to help identify new security threats before they happen, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal this week. The financial services firms will team up with the Polytechnic Institute of N...

CVE-2011-5046

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2011-12-18 00:00:00+00:00| confirmed| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18275 2025-08-31 03:13:13+00:00| seen| MISP/d17bd6ef-d68b-317b-ac33-cdbc44c5fc57 2026-06-28 12:37:06+00:00| seen| https://bsky.app/profile/cyberhub.blog/post/3mpdygrhsds2y...