Design/Logic Flaw

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: The CNA or individual who requested this candidate did not associate it with any vulnerability during 2016. Notes: none...

Bruce Schneier on IoT Regulation

Mike Mimoso talks to Bruce Schneier, CTO of IBM Resilient, at RSA 2017 about the early days of the conference, his campaign for IoT regulation, and how the technical community needs to get involved with policy. Music by Chris Gonsalves...

ShadowBrokers Dump Came from Internal Code Repository, Insider

Update An analysis of the latest ShadowBrokers dump of alleged NSA spy tools points to an insider with access to a code repository belonging to the intelligence agency, experts said. Researchers at security company Flashpoint said today that its investigation of the leaked data points away from a...

SWIFT Warns of Second Bank Attack via PDF Malware

News of yet another attack involving a bank and SWIFT, the financial network used by thousands of banks to transfer funds, came to light Thursday as investigators continue to probe a separate $81 million heist in February involving the network and the central bank of Bangladesh. The Brussels-base...

MIT Launches Experimental Bug Bounty Program

The effectiveness of bug bounty programs is difficult to deny, especially after adoption of one at Uber, which announced last month it would begin paying $10,000 for critical bugs, and the Department of Defense, whose Hack the Pentagon illustrates the government’s softening stance on hackers. The...

R.I.P Ian Murdock, Founder of Debian Linux, Dies at 42

Ian Murdock, the founder the Debian Linux operating system and the creator of apt-get, has passed away. Yes, it is very sad to announce that Ian Murdock is not between us. His death has touched the entire software community. He was just 42. The announcement of Murdock death came out via a blog po...

Government Asks for Security Community's Help on Technical Issues

LAS VEGAS–Washington is looking for a few good hackers. Politicians and policymakers in the United States generally are not thought of as being the most technically savvy lot. It’s a reputation that’s well-earned in some cases, with some politicians boasting about their inability to use email and...

Wendy Nather on the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center

Dennis Fisher talks with Wendy Nather about her new role as the research director at R-CISC, the challenges of getting companies to share threat intelligence, how smaller retails can deal with breaches and threats, and how the government can play a role in information sharing. Download:...

D-Link / TRENDnet ncc2 CSRF / Unauthenticated Access

D-Link and TRENDnet 'ncc2' service - multiple vulnerabilities Discovered by: ---- Peter Adkins Access: ---- Local network; unauthenticated access. Remote network; unauthenticated access. Remote network; 'drive-by' via CSRF. Tracking and identifiers: ---- CVE - Mitre contacted; not yet allocated...

The Pirate Bay relaunch is FBI's Honeypot? Pirate Bay Team Responds,'NO WAY'

After almost two months of untimely and unexpected outage, The Pirate Bay TPB finally came back this weekend. But the re-launch of the infamous torrent-indexing website raised a question among those suspicious about this new setup — Is it really The Pirate Bay? A few days back we reported that Th...

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

Antivirus Interference Antivirus software can cause access issues similar to those documented in this article. Such interference often occurs when security software detects a Veeam process attempting to access a file and simultaneously locks the file for inspection, coinciding with the Veeam...

Announcing Project Zero

Posted by Chris Evans, Researcher Herder Security is a top priority for Google. We’ve invested a lot in making our products secure, including strong SSL encryption by default for Search, Gmail and Drive, as well as encrypting data moving between our data centers. Beyond securing our own products,...

OpenICS ICS Protocol Decoder Builds Data Dictionaries

Industrial control system security has been called archaic, laughable and even non-existent. Most ICS and SCADA systems weren’t built with the Internet in mind, much less security, but yet they are at the forefront of manufacturing, building automation and critical infrastructure operations...

Satoshi Nakamoto - The Mysterious Bitcoin Creator finally identified in California

'Satoshi Nakamoto', the mysterious founder and creator of the biggest digital cryptocurrency 'Bitcoin' has reportedly been unmasked as a 64-year-old father of six living in Temple City, Southern California. Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the world in 2008, but his identity has remained...

Experts Urge Conservatism on Crypto Standards

SAN FRANCISCO–Security people are, by nature, cautious and methodical, and that is even more true of cryptographers. And in the current environment, when new adversaries seem to emerge on a daily basis and cryptographic standards are under intense scrutiny, a panel of some of the biggest names in...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue because of dependency on the victim's direct involvement in modifying the Windows registry to enable the attack. Note...

New Mozilla Plug-N-Hack Tool Integrates Browsers and Security Tools

The Mozilla security team is developing a new proposed standard that will make it easier for researchers to integrate some of their tools with Firefox and other browsers. The standard, known as Plug-n-Hack, is an open project that Mozilla hopes will be adopted by researchers and tool makers. A lo...

China Accuses America of Hacking

The predominant narrative among U.S. officials and security experts is that Chinese hackers, allegedly at the behest of their government, are thoroughly compromising the computer networks of American government, defense, and public sector organizations in order to steal any valuable data. What yo...

Experts Tell Congress Serious Deterrence Needed to Impede Foreign Cyber Attacks

The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats typically is more concerned with economics and political issues than cyber attacks, but the members spent this morning in a hearing trying to come up with an answer to a fairly straightforward, but thorny question: Wh...

Stuxnet is Back ! Iran reported another cyber attack

Iran claims to have repelled a fresh cyber attack on its industrial units in a southern province. In the last few years, various Iranian industrial, nuclear and government bodies have recently come under growing cyber attacks, widely believed to be designed and staged by the US and Israel. A powe...