Google Says Gmail Security Measures Have Reduced Account Hijacks By 99 Percent

Gmail accounts are high-priority targets for attackers of all stripes, particularly spam crews and state-sponsored attackers who use them to monitor the activities of activists and journalists. Hijacking those accounts can be quite useful for spammers and malware gangs as well, but Google said th...

Atmel "secure" crypto co-processor series microprocessors (AT91SAM7XC) leaking keys, plus bonus DESFire hack

The Atmel AT91SAM7XC series of microprocessors contain a crypto co-processor which is DES and AES capable. They include a write-only memory for key storage and multiple physical security measures to prevent decapping etc. However, due to poor memory management, in certain circumstances it is...

Sony Fined £250,000 By UK Over Failures in PlayStation Network Breach

Nearly two years after attackers began what turned out to be a long series of intrusions at Sony, most notably with the PlayStation Network data breach, authorities in the U.K. have fined the company the equivalent of almost $400,000 for not being careful enough with customer data. The Sony PSN...

ENISA Outlines Security Regulations for EU Smart Grid Expansion

The European Union has set a series of ambitious goals for itself: by 2020, the 27 member states expect to collectively use 20 percent renewable energy, reduce CO2 emissions by 20 percent, and increase energy efficiency by 20 percent. In order to accomplish these goals, Europe will need to perfor...

Researcher Owns Internal Network after Victim Opens Email

Security researcher Bogdan Calin found that he could remotely compromise the internal networks of users with default or weak router passwords merely by compelling them to open a legitimate looking email on their iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Writing for the Acunetix blog, Calin explains that he has found...

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Stolen NASA Laptop Puts 'Large Number' of Employees at Risk

NASA has enacted new policies to protect employee and other sensitive information after a laptop was stolen from an employee’s locked vehicle, exposing records of personal information on a “large number” of NASA employees. The laptop was not protected by whole disk encryption, NASA officials said...

Blizzard Sued Over Data Breach, Authenticator Sales

UPDATED–A group of customers is suing gaming giant Blizzard Entertainment in connection with a data breach in August that resulted in user email addresses, hashed passwords and other information being stolen by attackers. The suit claims that the company did not do enough to secure users’ account...

GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Plant Applications Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Overview ICS-CERT received a report from GE Intelligent Platforms and the Zero Day Initiative ZDI concerning multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in the GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Plant Applications. These vulnerabilities were reported to ZDI by independent security researcher Luigi...

PJblog3 vulnerability Description and use-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

Really does not want to understand such vulnerability so long official why not repair now there is such a vulnerability to straighten the more terrible the registered members straight plug word The tool is to use VBS to write the code as follows: Copy the contents to the clipboard the program cod...

Anonymous leaks Classified Documents from Greek Finance Ministry server

Collective hacking group Anonymous leaks username-passwords and classified documents from Greek Finance Ministry server. Just a few days before the Greek Parliament is scheduled to vote on a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan. Attack was carried out under anonymous operation named -...

nginx+cgi to parse php is prone to a vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The title is a bit large, when we analyze carefully after, in fact, are generally configuration issues. If someone wants to attack the server, it will scan the machine where there is vulnerability can upload a malicious script file, the upload script is the first step, When a malicious php script...

HP/H3C and Huawei networking equipment h3c-user snmp vulnerability

Overview HP/H3C and Huawei networking equipment contains a vulnerability which could allow an attacker to access administrative functions of the device using systems network management protocol SNMP requests. Description According to the researcher's report.:"HP/H3C and Huawei networking equipmen...

Capital One Latest Victim in Series of Attacks on U.S. Banks

Capital One Financial Corp. told Bloomberg’s Businessweek that its online banking services had been temporarily disabled on Tuesday but that no customer and account information was ever at risk. The ‘Mrt. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters’ took credit for the attack on the text-sharing site...

Anonymous claims attacking Greek official websites

Anonymous Group taken down several Greek government websites, on the eve of a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Hackers Hack several sites including those of the Citizens Protection Ministry, the police and the Ministry of Justice. A message appeared saying: "The page cannot be found". In...

6 Million Virgin Mobile users vulnerable to Hackers

Virgin Mobile customers beware: Your phone number is the key to your personal information. According to independent developer Kevin Burke, who warned Virgin Mobile USA customers about a glaring security hole in the phone company's account login protocol said, "If you are one of the six million...

Massachusetts Hospital Agrees to Pay $1.5m After Stolen Laptop HIPAA Violation

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Boston-based hospital, agreed to pay $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HSS earlier this week, settling a HIPAA violation stemming from a 2010 incident. The agreement acknowledges that the hospital failed to comply with...

SSL Digital Certificate Security Issues Put CAs on Notice

It’s been a rough couple of years for the security of fundamental Internet infrastructure technologies such the domain name system DNS, SSL and digital certificates. Hackers are taking aim at these core technologies at the heart of ecommerce and online communication, and are more often than not,...

KingCmsSQL injection plus+code execution-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Detailed description: function kcpageLoad if KCMAGICQUOTESGPC $GET=kcstripslashesarray$GET; $POST=kcstripslashesarray$POST; $COOKIE=kcstripslashesarray$COOKIE; $array=array'PHPSELF','SCRIPTURI','QUERYSTRING','PATHINFO','PATHTRANSLATED'; foreach$array as $val ifisset$SERVER$val...

LinkedIn Data breach costs $1 million

Business networking site LinkedIn has announced it took a hit of up to $1 million due to one of the year's largest reported data breaches. LinkedIn spent between $500,000 and $1 million on forensic work after a large number of passwords were breached, LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello said on the...