Google, Microsoft to Implement Mobile 'Kill Switch'

Google and Microsoft will incorporate remote kill switch features into the default builds of their respective mobile operating systems for the first time. Oddly enough, the announcement comes in a joint press release issued by New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, and San Francisco Distri...

NASDAQ Patches Reported XSS Vulnerability

A NASDAQ representative confirmed this morning that a cross-site scripting vulnerability on the exchange’s website discovered by an ethical hacker has been patched. The issue was reported on Sept. 2 by Ilia Kolochenko, chief executive of High-Tech Bridge, a Swiss penetration testing company...

Syria suffers nationwide communications outage

The Syrian situation is getting worse day by day, the regime is attacking dissident mercilessly meanwhile the world wide community is standing by and watch helplessly stopped by prohibition of military intervention imposed by Russia and China, historical allies of Damascus. Syria regime is fierce...

Amid Protests, Egypt Severs Ties to Internet

Amidst growing popular protests, Egypt has been severed from the Internet, according to reports from Intenet monitors and reporters within the country. The Associated Press and Reuters both confirmed reports of widespread outtages within Egypt affecting customers of all of the country’s main ISPs...

New Intel Chips Support SMS Kill Switch

HED: New Intel Chips Support SMS Kill Switch DEK: Anti Theft 3 Chips Can be disabled via 3G Networks New computer processors from Intel Corp, due out in 2011, can be disabled using an SMS “poison pill” message sent over any 3G cellular network, according to Intel documentation. The new anti-theft...

Alex Howard on Compliance, Breach Notification and the Rockefeller Bill

Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Howard, associate editor of Searchcompliance.com, about the burden compliance places on security staffs, the growing tide of breach notification laws and the misunderstandings surrounding the Rockefeller bill and the Internet kill switch. Download Subscribe to the...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-128.1.6.0.1.el5 - NET Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 John Sobecki,Guru Anbalagane orabug 6045759 - MM shrink zone patch John Sobecki,Chris Mason orabug 6086839 - NET Add xen pv/bonding netconsole support Tina yang orabug 6993043 bz 7258 - nfs convert ENETUNREACH to ENOTCONN Guru...