RSA: Chaos In the Security World, And the Situation Is Perfect

Right on cue this week, the anarchic hacking collective Anonymous stepped up and grabbed the story line away from the lions of the IT security industry. With the annual RSA Conference set to begin, the whistle blowing site Wikileaks released the first of some five million e-mail messages stolen...

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the "Year of the Hack" or "Epic Fail 2011". Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for...

Web App Pentesting - PenTest Magazine

Web App Pentesting - Pentest Magazine The significance of HTTP and the Web for Advanced Persistent Threats Web Application Security and Penetration Testing Developers are form Wenus, Application Security guys from Mars Pulling legs of Arachni XSS BeeF Metaspolit Exploitation Cross-site request...

760+ Organizations, Including Google, Facebook, Targeted by RSA Attack

More than 760 organizations, 20 percent of them Fortune 100 companies, may have been compromised by RSA’s now infamous data breach in March, 2011, according to a report on Krebsonsecurity. Facebook, Google and Cisco Systems are just a few of the many organizations who were targets of malware usin...

McAfee DeepSAFE - Anti-rootkit Security Solution

McAfee DeepSAFE - Anti-rootkit Security Solution McAfee previewed its DeepSAFE hardware-assisted security technology for proactively detecting and preventing stealthy advanced persistent threats APTs and malware. The technology, which was co-developed with Intel, sits below the OS, providing the...

McAfee DeepSAFE - Anti-rootkit Security Solution

McAfee DeepSAFE - Anti-rootkit Security Solution McAfee previewed its DeepSAFE hardware-assisted security technology for proactively detecting and preventing stealthy advanced persistent threats APTs and malware. The technology, which was co-developed with Intel, sits below the OS, providing the...

Inside Story : How RSA was got hacked !

Inside Story : How RSA was got hacked ! The hack last month at RSA Security has been shrouded in mystery. How did a hacker manage to infiltrate one of the world's top computer-security companies? And could the data that was stolen be used to impair its SecurID products, which are used by 40 milli...

HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack

Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary, admits that lackluster security at his company played a central role in the breach that led to the release of some 50,000 company emails, but also disputes common understanding and reported details of the hack and the group behind it, going so far as to say there was...

Sophisticated Attackers Now Using Social Net For Command and Control

Spammers aren’t the only ones who have figured out that social networks like Twitter and Facebook are good for business. Sophisticated hackers conducting targeted attacks are also using the networks as a tool to manage malware installations on victims’ networks, according to a new report from...

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...

Warning About IDS Evasion Greeted by Chorus of 'Meh'

‘All your IDS are belong to us,’ was the message on Monday, after researchers at networking security equipment vendor Stonesoft announced the discovery of evasion techniques that could be used by sophisticated attackers to bypass network based IDS and IPS. The disclosure raises questions about th...

Researchers: Google Aurora Attackers Back in Business?

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in your e-mail…Researchers say a new round of targeted attacks appear to come from the same group responsible for attacks against Google and other top U.S. firms. Writing on the Symantec Security blog...

RSA 2010: Securosis Previews the Key Themes and Topics

Securosis analysts Rich Mogull, Adrian Lane and Mike Rothman tackle the key themes for this year’s RSA 2010 conference — virtualization/cloud security, advanced persistent threats/cybersecurity and compliance...

Google Attack Was Tip of the Iceberg

The recent disclosure by Google, Adobe and other companies that their networks had been thoroughly compromised by attackers who may have been after their source code has prompted a tremendous amount of discourse both in the security community and in the general public about the political and...

Tom Kellermann on Google and Howard Schmidt's Priorities

Dennis Fisher talks with Tom Kellermann of Core Security about the Google attack, the priorities for new cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt and the economic and political realities of advanced persistent threats. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...