Did Apple, RIM and Nokia Help The Indian Government Spy On The U.S.?

Documents purportedly lifted from Indian government servers contain explosive allegations: that leading Western firms including Apple Corp., Research in Motion and Nokia provided the government with secret access to mobile devices their mobile operating systems- access that the Indian government...

Anonymous expose email addresses of British military staff & Nato officials

Anonymous expose email addresses of British military staff & Nato officials Anonymous Hackers expose email addresses of 221 British military staff with encrypted passwords, including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well as politicians and 242 Nato advisers. "Civil servants...

Hackers leak the Source Code for Symantec Product

Hackers leak the Source Code for Symantec Product A group calling itself the Lords of Dharmaraja posted an Adobe document online Wednesday that it claimed was a glimpse of the source code for the internet security software. But Symantec spokesman Cris Paden said "no source code was disclosed" in...

Coviello: '2012 Will Be the Year of Resiliency'

I just came back from a five-week trip of meeting with customers around the world and never in my entire career have CEOs and corporate boards been as interested in security as they are now. The common theme throughout these conversations was that we are facing a new reality – one of persistent,...

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America's top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members. The hackers may have broken into the...

CheckPoint Firewall-1 SecuRemote Topology Service Hostname Disclosure

This module sends a query to the port 264/TCP on CheckPoint Firewall-1 firewalls to obtain the firewall name and management station such as SmartCenter name via a pre-authentication request. The string returned is the CheckPoint Internal CA CN for SmartCenter and the firewall host. Whilst...

Report: Iran Claims To Have Hacked, Then Hijacked Stealth Drone

A report on the Web site of the Christian Science Monitor claims that Iran exploited a long-known vulnerability in the GPS navigation system of the U.S.’s RQ-170 Sentinel drone to force it into landing safely within Iran. The report, Thursday, cites an Iranian engineer that is part of a team that...

Breach confirmed in GlobalSign, SSL certificates not compromised

Breach confirmed in GlobalSign, SSL certificates not compromised GlobalSign said on Tuesday that the SSL certificate and key for www.globalsign.com may have been exposed after a hack on an external server in September. However, the company said that after investigating the breach it has found no...

Social network poisoning - They are Following you Everywhere !

Note : This Article is taken from Most Comprehensive and Informative IT Security Magazine by The Hacker News - December Edition Download Here "Be Social" is the imperative of the last years. We live alternative lives, weave dense networks of relationships; we feel the irrepressible urge to be par...

Combination of Eyes and Algorithms Wins $50K Prize In DARPA's Shredder Challenge

Scientists for the Pentagon’s far-out research branch, DARPA, weren’t sure that anyone would be able to collect the $50,000 prize when they announced their Shredder Challenge to find ways to reassemble shredded documents just over a month ago. This week – just 33 days later – they had a winner...

The Spy Files: Wikileaks expose Mobile Phone, Email Hacking capability

The Spy Files: Wikileaks expose Mobile Phone, Email Hacking capability Wikileaks has released dozens of new documents highlighting the state of the once covert, but now lucrative private sector global surveillance industry. According to Assange, over 150 private sector organisations in 25 countri...

Microsoft Now Using IP Address to Map Malware Infections

Microsoft has a new way of determining the geolocation of systems infected with malware, and it had subtle but relevant effects on the 11th volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. It’s a novel concept, instead of relying on an administrator-specified setting that anyone with hands a...

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program A Report by Kaspersky Lab Expert, Ryan Naraine says that the DUQU malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program. IrCERT Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team Duqu is an upgraded version of "Stars". Back in April this year, The...

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program A Report by Kaspersky Lab Expert, Ryan Naraine says that the DUQU malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program. IrCERT Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team Duqu is an upgraded version of "Stars". Back in April this year, The...

CIA Admits It Monitors, Analyzes Facebook, Twitter

The Associated Press published a report today detailing, for the first time, a unit within the CIA, referring to itself as the ‘vengeful librarians,’ that is responsible for monitoring the vast and various social networks, local and international news, radio, and television, Internet chat rooms,...

The Changing Threat Landscape

Join Dennis Fisher, Threatpost editor-in-chief, and his guests, Josh Corman, Director Security Intelligence Akamai, and Gene Kim, Founder / Former CTO Tripwire, and Author, “Visible Ops,” as they discuss the changing threat landscape and how technology plays a pivotal role in the security...

CVE-2011-3510

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.3.0 and 11.1.1.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and integrity via unknown vectors related to BI Platform Security...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.3.0 and 11.1.1.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and integrity via unknown vectors related to BI Platform Security...

Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet

Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet The Stuxnet cyberworm could soon be modified to attack vital industrial facilities in the US and abroad, cybersecurity experts warned Wednesday at a Senate hearing. Computer security companies agree that these virus is unprecedented and it means the daw...

Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet

Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet The Stuxnet cyberworm could soon be modified to attack vital industrial facilities in the US and abroad, cybersecurity experts warned Wednesday at a Senate hearing. Computer security companies agree that these virus is unprecedented and it means the daw...