Chris Valasek on Car Hacking

Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Valasek of IOActive about the new research he did with Charlie Miller on remotely hacking a Jeep, how the disclosure process worked, what auto makers can do to secure their vehicles’ on-board systems, and how much of a threat these attacks pose to drivers. Download:...

CHIP — The World's First $9 Computer

Wait! What? A $9 computer? This is something magical. A Californian startup lead by Dave Rauchwerk is currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter to create a computer that will cost as much as $9 or £6. The new microcomputer, dubbed CHIP, is a tiny, Linux-based, super-cheap computer that's...

Inside nls_933w.dll, the Equation APT Persistence Module

CANCUN – The names called out like beacons from the screen: Samsung; Seagate; Western Digital; Hitachi; Maxtor. Hardware makers were in the crosshairs of the Equation APT group and it was perhaps the worst possible scenario imagined by researchers looking at the frightening and extensive storehou...

Is It Time for Certified ICS Security Specialists?

The information security field is full of certifications – CompTIA, GIAC, CHE, ISC2 CISSP, CISM, with a vast number of areas and directions within these families. In the industrial space, the most “unsecured” enterprise sector compared to well-established information security practice in most...

Metasploit Module Targets Old Android Vulnerability

Android devices prior to version 4.2.1 of the operating system—70 percent of the phones and tablets in circulation—have been vulnerable to a serious and simple remote code execution vulnerability in the Android browser for more than 93 weeks. Metasploit recently added an exploit module that targe...

Android Vulnerability Bypasses App's Digital Signature

A vulnerability exists in the Android code base that would allow a hacker to modify a legitimate, digitally signed Android application package file APK and not break the app’s cryptographic signature—an action that would normally set off a red flag that something is amiss. Researchers at startup...

APT1-Themed Spear Phishing Campaign Linked to China

Researchers at Seculert have discovered a link between spear phishing campaigns targeting Japanese and Chinese journalists, post-Mandiant’s APT1 report, and domains connected to the Aurora attacks on Google and the Shady RAT campaign. In particular, in the attacks against the Japanese, the malwar...

Microsoft Reaches Settlement with Site Linked to Nitol Botnet

Microsoft announced today it’s reached a settlement with the operator of a Chinese Web site whose domain and sub-domains hosted more than 500 kinds of malware, including the Nitol botnet found on brand new computers. In a lawsuit filed two weeks ago by the software giant, Microsoft alleged the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: redeclipse-1.2-12.fc17

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Slideshow: Fair Game: 12 Months, 10 Eye-Popping Hacks Targeting Some Of the Globe's Biggest Gaming Firms

VIEW SLIDESHOW Fair Game: 12 Months, 10 Eye-Popping Hacks Targeting Some Of the Globe’s Biggest Gaming Firms The past year has seen a sharp increase in attacks aimed at online gaming platforms and game makers. In fact, there was a point last summer, in the wake of Sony’s Playstation Network outag...

The Cloud Security Rules Book - Technology is your friends & Enemy

The Cloud Security Rules Book - Technology is your friends & Enemy Well-known security experts decipher the most challenging aspect of cloud computing-security. The Cloud Security Rules book is available on Amazon.com and selected book stores from October 2011. According to Description available...

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran GRAND RAPIDS – Cyber Styletto is a new novella by a journalist, a writer, and a security expert who have pooled their talents to create an enthralling good read that is future forward and predictive. The facts are base...

UNITED Security Summit 2011, 19-20 September - San Francisco

UNITED Security Summit 2011 , 19-20 September - San Francisco The UNITED Security Summit is focused on innovation and collaboration in the security community. Bringing together security decision makers, practitioners, commercial vendors, open source projects and academia, the Summit highlights...

U.S. Needs Cybersecurity Skunk Works, Expert Says

ARLINGTON, VA–In order to address the fundamental questions surrounding the concept of cyberwar and what it might mean for both the government and the enterprise, the United States should develop a skunk works-type think tank comprising highly skilled private-sector security experts as well as...

Researcher Publishes Android Browser Exploit

UPDATE: A researcher at security firm Alert Logic has published code that could be used to compromise some versions of Google’s Android Operating System. The exploit, if properly adapted, could make Android phones vulnerable to remote attacks and compromises. Researcher MJ Keith published a Rever...

How Assumptions May Be Making Us All Less Secure

In the space of a given year, untold thousands of vulnerabilities are found in operating systems, applications and plug-ins. In many cases, the affected vendors fix the flaws, either with a patch, a workaround or some other mitigation. But there’s also a huge population of security bugs that...

Phishing Attacks Continue to Evolve

Antispam vendors, browser makers and Internet service providers have been on the front lines in the battle to contain phishing attacks, but the cybercriminals behind phishing campaigns are getting savvy at defeating technologies and tricking victims into giving up their credentials and other data...

Batch Picture Watemark 1.0 (.jpg File) Local Crash PoC

Exploit for unknown platform in category dos / poc ====================================================== Batch Picture Watemark 1.0 .jpg File Local Crash PoC ====================================================== Anti-Security Research Team & Security Institute + Bug : Batch Picture Watemark v1....

Major software makers fail security transparency test

From SDTimes David Worthington A majority of the industry’s leading software makers surveyed by SD Times lack transparency about the internal principles that they use for writing secure software. Analysts believe that those companies are either practicing security by obscurity, do not adequately...