A Sample Security Agenda for Obama's Second Term

When Barack Obama was sworn in four years ago for his first term, there was genuine optimism that he would make meaningful improvements to the security of the nation’s critical infrastructure as well as the policies that govern security and privacy in the private sector. After the Bush...

Report Details Coca-Cola Cyber Attack That Never was Disclosed

In an exclusive report, Bloomberg News outlines a month-long, systematic attack on Cola-Cola’s computer systems that may have influenced the failed $2.4 billion acquisition of a Chinese juice company. The FBI knew about it. Coca-Cola knew about it. But shareholders were kept in the dark. The Coke...

MIRcon 2012: Overall Themes for the Management Track

Mandiant will host its third annual MIRcon on October 17th and 18th in Washington, DC. I attended the previous two MIRcon conferences, first as Director of Incident Response for my previous employer, and last year as Mandiant's Chief Security Officer. Last year we decided to host both a technical...

Anonymous Retaliates for Arrests, Defaces Panda Labs

Hackers associated with the Anonymous and the Antisec movement claim to have compromised and defaced various Panda Labs’ websites earlier today. The hack comes one day after the news broke of the indictment of five core LulzSec hackers on various counts of hacking and other related charges. As...

Google Begins Security Review Process for Android Apps

After a couple of years of seeing headlines announcing a steady stream of pieces of malware and trojaned apps appearing the Android Market, Google finally has taken steps to find and remove malicious apps from the market automatically. The company has unveiled a service called Bouncer that scans...

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet?

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet ? Initially After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version o...

Call for Articles - The Hacker News Magazine | December Edition

Call for Articles - The Hacker News Magazine | December Edition THN Magazine is a free monthly magazine designed to spread awareness and knowledge about cyber security. Our goal is to provide the most up-to-date information on a wide variety of topics that relate to hackers and security experts...

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack !

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack ! In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an...

Cisco Nexus OS (NX-OS) Command Injection

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Cisco Nexus OS NX-OS - Command "injection" / sanitization issues. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Discovery by: 1 Peter Adkins Access: 1 Local; authenticated access is...

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases A student has been charged with involvement in cyber attacks by the hacking group Anonymous against companies that withdrew online payment services from WikiLeaks. Peter David Gibson, from Hartlepool, will appear before magistrate...

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered When the history of 2011 is written, it may well be remembered as the Year of the Hacks. McAfee publish a new report that it says is one of the most comprehensive analysis ever revealed of victim profiles from a five-year long...

#OpPayPal - Anonymous calls for boycott of PayPal for blocking Wikileaks

OpPayPal - Anonymous calls for boycott of PayPal for blocking Wikileaks The Latest Operation could be a major departure into legal direct action for Anonymous, LulzSec and AntiSec. If so, this is one to watch with great interest. The campaign marks something of a departure for LulzSec and...

Switzerland & Italian police arrest 15 suspected Anonymous members

Switzerland & Italian police arrest 15 suspected Anonymous members Switzerland & Italian police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested some members of the Legion group Anonymous following a series of raids. The arrests were made by the Polizia postale e delle comunicazioni, or Polizia Postale, which...

Lady Gaga's Twitter Account Hacked !

Lady Gaga's Twitter Account Hacked ! Oh snap! Lady Gaga's Twitter account was hacked on Wednesday and as a result, the Mother Monster has threatened to involve the authorities in the matter. Don't fuck with Gaga's digital rights. And come to think of it…to hack the Twitter account of the world's...

Is Anonnews (Anonymous News Portal) run with support of United States Govt. ?

Anonymous Internet users discovered Thursday that the United States Government plays a major role in the day-to-day operations of the most popular Internet news source used by internet activists, or "hacktivists." Anonnews.org claims to serve decentralized hacker group Anonymous as its central...

CBC Reports Canadian Government Hacked By Chinese

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is reporting that key government agencies in Canada were the targets of a sophisticated cyber attack aimed at stealing sensitive government information. The attack was first detected in January, 2011, and prompted Canada’s Finance Department and Treasury Board off...

Four arrested in 1st cyber fraud in J&K !

Srinagar: A Nigerian national is under the scanner of Jammu and Kashmir Police while four other persons have been arrested in the first case of cyber bank fraud in the Kashmir Valley. Four persons, including two residents of Mumbai, were arrested last week in connection with a case of bank fraud...

Alex Hutton on the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Hutton of the Verizon Business RISK team about the new Data Breach Investigations Report, the involvement of the Secret Service in this year’s report and the need for more and better data on attacks and successful defenses. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscrib...

TJX Hack Accomplice Now Broke, Awaiting Sentence

From Wired.com Kim Zetter Accused TJX hacker kingpin Albert Gonzalez called his credit card theft ring “Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin.” He spent $75,000 on a birthday party for himself and once complained that he had to manually count $340,000 in pilfered $20 bills because his counting machine...

Backup implementation

Backup implementation I. Intro II. Tools III. Strategy Well, now let's talk about how to live with all this correctly. The backup process consists of three stages: planning, implementation and support. We have already talked a little about support and implementation, but planning is the most...