FTC Releases Alert on Identity Theft

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert about how quickly criminals begin using your personal information once it is posted to a hacker site by an identity thief. FTC researchers found that it can take as few as 9 minutes for crooks to access stolen personal information posted to...

FTC Promotes Privacy Awareness Week

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an announcement on Privacy Awareness Week, celebrated this week in the U.S. The theme of this year’s initiative is “Share with Care,” and the FTC is offering privacy tips, including how to safeguard your information online, improve your computer...

Facebook Self-XSS Scam Fools Users into Hacking Themselves

Scammers have again targeted more than one billion active users of the popular social networking giant Facebook, to infect as many victims as possible. Not by serving fake post, neither by providing malicious video link, instead this time scammers have used a new way of tricking Facebook users in...

NSA Chief Says Today's Cyber Attacks Amount to 'Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History'

The general in charge of the National Security Agency on Monday said the lack of national cybersecurity leglislation is costing us big and amounting to what he believes is “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” U.S. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander urged politicians to stop stalling on approvi...

Apple Seeking Professional To Fill New 'Keep Employees From Losing Priceless Mobile Prototypes In Local Pubs' Position

In the latest edition of “open positions that should have been filled three years ago,” Apple Computer is looking to hire a Product Security Manager, the New York Times is reporting. The company advertised the new “Manager, Product Security” position on its Web site, saying that the candidate wil...

Microsoft Release Security Intelligence Report !

Microsoft Release Security Intelligence Report ! The Security Intelligence Report SIR is an investigation of the current threat landscape. It analyzes exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware based on data from over 600 million systems worldwide, as well as internet services, and three Microsoft...

Samba Security Announcement -- Potential Arbitrary File Access

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Subject: Potential Arbitrary File Access Affected Versions: Samba 2.2.x = 2.2.11 and Samba 3.0.x = 3.0.5 Summary: A remote attacker may be able to gain access to files which exist outside of the share's defined path. Such files must still be readable ...

Multiple vulnerabilities in stack smashing protection technologies.

Advisory ID Internal CORE-20020409 Advisory Information: Advisory ID: CORE-20020409 Bugtraq ID:4586, 4589 CVE Name: Non-assigned yet Title: Multiple vulnerabilities in stack smashing protection technologies. Class: Design limitation, Implementation flaw Remotely Exploitable: Yes Locally...