Hacker discloses vulnerabilities in dozens of Military and Pentagon websites

A hacker with handle name !White! today disclose SQL injection vulnerabilities in dozens of Military, United Nation and Pentagon domains. SQL Injection is one of the many web attack mechanisms used by hackers to steal data from organizations. Through a Pastebin note hacker announce more details...

Service Disruption or Destruction: Which is Worse?

Outcomes in security tend to be about data loss; stolen pharmaceutical formulas, jet fighter blueprints, patient records, credit card numbers etc. All of these come with a great cost to the victim and make for sexy headlines. But far too little is dissected and analyzed about service disruptions...

Out-of-Band IE Patch Released as More Sites Attacked

Internet Explorer users, exposed to a zero-day vulnerability in the browser and a faulty temporary Fix It from Microsoft, finally got some relief today when the company, as promised, released an out-of-band patch. Meanwhile, a handful of new telco, manufacturing and human rights sites have been...

Spear Phishing Remains Preferred Point of Entry in Targeted, Persistent Attacks

Persistent targeted attacks against the government, financial services, manufacturing and critical infrastructure take on many characteristics. Attackers can have different backgrounds and motivations, and the tools they use can range from commodity malware to zero-day exploits. One characteristi...

Update: Adobe Working to Confirm New Reader Zero-Day Sandbox-Bypass Exploit

Adobe said today it has been in contact with the Russian security company Group-IB, which discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and yesterday reported the existance of a pricey exploit circulating on the black market. The exploit, according to Group-IB, bypasses Adobe’s sandbox...

Large-Scale Water Holing Attack Campaigns Hitting Key Targets

A new APT-style espionage campaign launched this summer targeting organizations tied to financial services, government agencies and the defense industry used a technique dubbed water holing to entice victims and silently redirect them to sites hosting zero-day exploits. Researchers at RSA Securit...

What Have We Learned: Flame Malware

When the news about the Flame malware first broke several weeks ago, people from all parts of the security community, political world and elsewhere quickly began trying to figure out what the significance of the tool was and whether it represented anything new. That was difficult at the time, giv...

U.S. Cyber Command Using Classified Intel To Scare CEOs To Action

The U.S.’s Cyber Command is using special, classified briefings with private sector CEOs to scare them into greater vigilance about the threat of cyber attacks, according to an NPR report. The report, quoting unnamed participants in the classified, 2010 briefings said that government officials...

Stuxnet Part II, III and IV

The nation-state sponsored malware arms race is on. Stuxnet may have been the “Shot heard round the world” but we think its likely that 2012 will witness a number of other skirmishes, with malware linked to foreign governments hostile to or allied with U.S. and Western nations infecting and...

#OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN

OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN Online 'hactivist' collective Anonymous and hackers Team Poison have joined forces for a new group effort known as 'Operation Robin Hood', that plans to target banks in an effort to give money back to the people. TeaMp0isoN toda...

Report: French Nuclear Company Areva Hit by Virus

French nuclear power group Areva was the target of a cyber attack in September, according to a recent post on the website of French business magazine L’Expansion. There were conflicting reports about the incident, which raises the specter of nation-backed spying. Some accounts, including one from...

Adobe Pushes Out Flash Player Patch

Adobe is pushing out an emergency security bulletin today in concert with a Google Chrome update to address six critical vulnerabilities in versions of its Flash Player, the company said in an email statement. The update will address critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.7 and...

Nation-State Attackers Are Adobe's Biggest Worry

SAN FRANCISCO–It’s no secret that attackers have made Adobe’s products key targets for the last couple of years, routinely going after bugs in Reader, Flash and Acrobat in targeted attacks and widespread campaigns alike. But it’s not just the rank-and-file bad guys who are making Adobe a priority...

Senate Considers Using Mob Law To Go After Cybercriminals

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee listened as one of the nation’s top cyber cops asked for expanded powers to go after cybercriminal groups, including the use of statutes written to combat the mafia. But confronted with the prospect of a major face lift for the U.S.’s preeminent cyber...

Don't Say I Never Told You: Researcher Warned Congress Of Stuxnet Variants 10 Months Ago

Stuxnet may have been super sophisticated cyber weapon deployed by state actors, but future generations of the malware will be available to run of the mill script kiddies, a noted expert on security and industrial control systems has warned in a letter to the U.S. Congress ten months ago. Ralph...

Jouve Group hacked by Inj3ct0r Team Against The Nato

Jouve Group hacked by Inj3ct0r Team Against The Nato Inj3ct0r Hackers Hacked the Jouve group websites and Upload there data at Sendspace Link . Message By hackers "For the Pride of Green LibyaAnd Supporting the Libyan Nation Against The Nato GangsWe are against terrorism and violence in Libya! Na...

THE CRAZIES Hackers Leaks Server Certificates of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

THE CRAZIES Hackers Leaks Server Certificates of Defense Information Systems Agency DISA THE CRAZIES Hackers steal the Several Certificate revocation lists CRLs from Server of Defense Information Systems Agency DISA - and leak the Certificates at : Reason of Hacking is Freedom of Libyan nation,...

SQLi vulnerability in United Nation's (UN) Website !

SQLi vulnerability in United Nation's UN Website ! SQLi vulnerability in United Nation's UN Website has been exposed on https://seclists.org/ . This Security flaw allow hackers to extract all Database of Chinese Part of United Nation's UN Website. Proof of Concept is available here...

Chinese National Stole Ford Secrets Worth More Than $50 Million

A ten year veteran of the U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company pleaded guilty in federal court on November 17 to charges that he stole company secrets, including design documents, worth more than $50 million and sharing them with his new employer: the Chinese division of a U.S. rival of Ford’s. Xian...

Top 10 IT Security Trends for 2011

The crystal ball gazing has started early this year. Typically, tech prediction pieces emerge after Christmas, but the first 'security trends for 2011' missive has already dropped into my inbox. So, what does the somewhat premature Imperva Application Defense Center think will worry us the most o...