British Intelligence Open-Sources its Large-Scale Graph Database Software

UK's Secretive Spy Agency Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ has open-sourced one of its tools on code-sharing website GitHub for free... A graph database called 'Gaffer.' Gaffer, written in Java, is a kind of database that makes it "easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes an...

Fast Packet Networking Toolkit: Snabb Switch

Snabb Switch is open source software for solving novel problems in networking. Blending the latest techniques for high-performance x86 packet processing together with a high-level LuaJIT programming interface. The goal is to offer the easiest way to create and deploy new network functions in larg...

Yahoo! Launches Free Web Application Security Scanner

Yahoo! has open-sourced Gryffin – a Web Application Security Scanner – in an aim to improve the safety of the Web for everyone. Currently in its beta, Project Gryffin has made available on Github under the BSD-style license that Yahoo! has been using for a number of its open-sourced projects...

From the client game bug looking of security risks-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Although the now app development a growing trend in web applications, large-scale software also makes extensive use of the existing framework with the existing frameworks and engines improve, the vast majority of security issues have been resolved. But encountered some customization needs,...

Adobe Auto-Update Flash Player Zero Day Patch

Adobe on Saturday began patching a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player, exploits for which have been included in the notorious Angler Exploit Kit. This is the second of two previously unreported critical flaws in the software that have been patched in the last five days. Adobe last Thursday se...

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Flash and to patch: Adobe emergency release Flash Player unscheduled security update-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Flash Player exists in a high-risk remote code execution vulnerability, currently being exploited by attackers to conduct large-scale attacks, Adobe has an emergency release an unscheduled security update. According to security vendor F-Secure said that in 1 0 On 1 4, Flash release patches to fix...

Arbor: DDoS Attacks Getting Bigger as Reflection Increases

Reflected distributed denial of service DDoS attacks continue to increase, particularly among large scale DDoS events, but it’s a relatively new type of amplification attack which exploits the Simple Service Directory Protocol SSDP that has emerged in a new Arbor Networks report. Data from the...

Is the “Day of Reckoning” getting closer for a large scale cyber-attack?

The "Phony War" is how commentators described the seven-month period of eerie quiet that prevailed in Western Europe between Germanys 1939 invasion of Poland and its later move into the Benelux countries, when erstwhile allies Britain and France avoided offensive operations and simply waited for...

Apple Implements Email Encryption For iCloud

Apple quietly began encrypting virtually all of the email flowing in and out of its servers for its iCloud.com, mac.com and me.com domains, a move that throws up an important roadblock for attackers and others attempting to snoop on those transmissions. The change from Apple comes as security...

Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Continue to Spike

Although the average size of a given DDoS attack is going down, the number of attacks at the upper end of the scale is increasing, with researchers at Arbor Networks reporting more than 100 attacks of 100 Gbps in the first half of this year. In order for a DDoS attack to be effective, bad guys us...

[Ncrack] High-Speed Network Authentication Cracker

Ncrack is a high-speed network authentication cracking tool. It was built to help companies secure their networks by proactively testing all their hosts and networking devices for poor passwords. Security professionals also rely on Ncrack when auditing their clients. Ncrack was designed using a...

Google Looking Into Hardware to Help Kill the Password

Google is looking at a number of hardware-based authentication mechanisms to bypass one of security’s biggest vulnerabilities: the written password. Wired Magazine got an advanced look at a report submitted by a Google security team for IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine that discusses alternatives...

Researchers Exploit Cloud Browsers to do Anonymous, Large-Scale Computing

Researchers from two U.S. universities have created a way to anonymously use cloud-based Web browsers to perform large-scale computing tasks – a feat that also demonstrates how hackers might secretly harness massive computing power to launch attacks. Using the MapReduce technique developed by...

Automated Toolkits Named in Massive DDoS Attacks Against U.S. Banks

Attackers targeting major U.S. banks with distributed denial of service attacks are using a number of toolkits to automate the job. Prolexic Technologies, a security company specializing in DDoS protection services, identified one toolkit called itsoknoproblembro, a kit that attacks multiple port...

Advanced Threats Are Not All the APT

By B.K. DeLong We have heard variations on the argument that within the context of information security, the “advanced persistent threat” APT is not really all that advanced or new, that it is being made too big a deal of or FUD and that it is no more than marketing hype though more of an effort...

Simplest Phones Open to 'SMS of Death' !

It's a scene from an as-yet-unmade thriller: Across a country, tens of thousands of cellphones all blink white at the same, and turn themselves off. Calls are lost, phones are rendered useless, and the affected mobile operator is forced to pay a ransom or lose customers. It hasn't happened yet. B...

Identifying Suspicious URLs

In the Google TechTalk, Justin Ma, a PhD candidate at UC San Diego, discusses a novel method for determining which URLs are malicious by applying large-scale online learning techniques...

WordPress Users Affected by Large Attack

In the past few days a number of websites created using WordPress have been hacked. While the attack initially appeared to be limited to web sites hosted by American ISP DreamHost, it has since become apparent that blogs hosted at GoDaddy, Bluehost and Media Temple have also been affected. Read t...

How to Take Down a Botnet

The botnet problem has reached epidemic levels in recent months, with the continued growth of large-scale botnets, as well as the identification of smaller, more targeted networks around the world. But researchers have been taking steps to disrupt botnets of late, with some notable successes, as...