The Problem of Issuing Certs For Unqualified Names

The recent attack on Comodo and several of its associated registration authorities has spurred quite a bit of re-examination of the way that the Web’s certificate authority infrastructure works–or doesn’t. One interesting result of this work is that the folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation...

Study: Three Of Four Energy Firms Had Data Breach In Last Year

Three quarters of global energy corporations have suffered one or more data breaches in the last 12 months, according to a new survey by The Ponemon Institute, which finds evidence of widespread shortcomings in the energy and utilities vertical. The report, “The State of IT Security: Study of...

Fedora Update for libcgroup FEDORA-2011-2631

Check for the Version of libcgroup OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libcgroup FEDORA-2011-2631 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...

Report: NSA Looks Into NASDAQ Hack

The National Security Agency has joined in a cyber forensic investigation off a major attack on NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. which operates the NASDAQ stock exchange, according to a report on Wednesday by Bloomberg. As reported by Threatpost, the tech-heavy stock exchange was discovered to be infiltrat...

Pentagon to Obama: icanhasbilliondollars plz?

Capitol Hill may be awash in tough talk on cuts to domestic programs, but that’s not stopping the Pentagon from seeking an additional billion dollars in funding for cyber security, according to a report from Nextgov.com. The Department of Defense is requesting $3.2 billion, almost $1 billion more...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libcgroup-0.37.1-1.fc15

Control groups infrastructure. The tools and library help manipulate, contr ol, administrate and monitor control groups and the associated controllers...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: libcgroup-0.36.2-6.fc14

Control groups infrastructure. The tools and library help manipulate, contr ol, administrate and monitor control groups and the associated controllers...

Forged Certificates: Five Steps To Secure Your Enterprise

The high profile compromise of Comodo, a Certificate Authority, has raised the spectre of a security compromise in one of the Internet’s few security pillars: SSL Secure Sockets Layer encryption that secures a dizzying array of Internet- and Web based transactions. With news that forged SSL...

Lessons From the Rustock Takedown

As a follow-up to the Rustock botnet news, Microsoft have identified themselves as the key instigators of the takedown. This is the second time Microsoft’s legal team has been actively involved in combating the botnet menace – and they obviously learned from their previous attempt at trying to...

IRS Security Holes Put Taxpayer Data At Risk

With the deadline for filing U.S. tax returns fast approaching, the U.S. Government’s watchdog agency warns that the Internal Revenue Service still hasn’t implemented steps to secure its IT infrastructure and protect taxpayers’ financial data. The U.S. Government Accountability Office GAO issued ...

WordPress DDoS Attacks Primarily From China !

After recovering from the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack in the service's history "multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second" yesterday morning, blog host WordPress.com was attacked again very early this morning, finally stabilizing its service at 11:15...

Extreme Exploits : Advanced Defenses Against Hardcore Hacks Ebook Download !

Extreme Exploits : Advanced Defenses Against Hardcore Hacks Ebook Download ! This cutting-edge volume takes network security professionals to the next level in protecting networks and web sites. Never-before-published advanced security techniques and concise explanations of core Internet...

U.S. Military's Cyber Chief Warns Of Eroding Technical Prowess

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Military’s top officer in charge of cyber security said that the country must invest more in so-called “STEM” programs – science, technology, engineering and math – to avoid being outflanked in a world where cyber offensive- and defensive operations are the keys to milita...

Progress Crawls in Securing Critical Infrastructure

The US government is progressing at a snail’s pace in securing critical American infrastructure according to a Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS commission on cybersecurity examining the first two years of the 44th presidency. Two years ago the CSIS published Securing Cyberspace...

OpenDNS 2010 Report : Web Content Filtering and Phishing !

OpenDNS 2010 Report : Web Content Filtering and Phishing Introduction OpenDNS® is the largest global DNS service for consumers, schools and businesses: • Resolves 30 billion DNS queries per day • Services 15 million requesting IP addresses per day. Many of these represent organizations with...

NASDAQ Hack Raises Critical Infrastructure Concerns

NASDAQ OMX, owners and operators of the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, reported this weekend that their systems had been infiltrated by unknown hackers. According to a report in the New York Times, NASDAQ OMX contacted federal law enforcement officials after discovering suspicious files in a part of thei...

DHS Investing $40 Million for Cybersecurity Research !

Insider threats, botnets and malware, and assay to abutment the Comprehensive Civic Cyber Initiative CNCI are amid areas of cybersecurity advance the Department of Homeland Aegis DHS will accomplish in budgetary year 2011. The DHS Science and Technology Homeland Aegis Advanced Assay Projects Bure...

Fedora Update for myproxy FEDORA-2011-0512

Check for the Version of myproxy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for myproxy FEDORA-2011-0512 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

DHS: $40m To Research Next Big Thing in Cyber Security

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a call for proposals this week in a $40m program to encourage research and development in a wide range of topics related to cyber security: from designing more resilient software, to alternatives to passwords and CAPTCHA technology to prevent...

Fedora Web Site Hacked, But the Servers Undamaged !

An attacker who had credentials and the use of taxpayer Fedora Fedora server, but the project leaders say the assailants apparently managed to compromise any software or servers. An attacker has attempted to compromise the servers for the Fedora Project, the community version of Red Hat Enterpris...