At FBI's Cyber Crime Conference: Chest Thumping And Head Scratching In Equal Measure

Long content to talk about the “what” behind cyber crime, the nation’s top computer security cops descended on New York City this week for the FBI’s International Conference on Cyber Crime ready to talk about “who.” But while discussions of tools and techniques for identifying criminal actors...

International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World

International Conference on Cyber Security ICCS 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World The FBI is teaming up with Fordham University for the International Conference on Cyber Security. It's an effort to identify emerging cyber threats and develop ways to mitigate those threats. The ZeuS Trojan has...

Facebook Jumps The Shark With IPO, Privacy Backlash

User backlash against Facebook’s ever-evolving but always overreaching data privacy plans is almost as old as the site itself. But there’s good reason to believe that 2012 will mark a turning point for the fast growing social network. For one thing, Facebook is on track for an IPO initial public...

Internet Pioneers, Security Experts Send Letter to Congress Blasting SOPA

A group of engineers, networking specialists, security experts and other specialists deeply involved with the Internet’s development and growth have sent a letter to lawmakers criticizing the highly controversial SOPA and PIPA bills and imploring them not to pass the legislation, which they say...

Facebook Scam Claims Justin Bieber Stabbed

Teen pop sensation and Rachel Maddow look-alike, Justin Bieber, was not stabbed outside a Los Angeles nightclub, nor was he stabbed outside a nightclub in New York, as two current Facebook spam campaigns allege. Reports claiming that the 17 year-old Canadian megastar had been stabbed by a crazed...

National program for Cyber army to be launched in India

National program for Cyber army to be launched inIndia Increasing attacks on cyberspace in India has brought several professionals and experts from the Industry, in support with the Government of India to jointly form a national level program to identify credible and valuable information security...

GPU cracks 6 character password in 4 seconds

GPU cracks 6 character password in 4 seconds An nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card, which costs about £30, is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours. Security experts were able to crack a 6 character password in 4 seconds, a 7 character password in less than 5 minutes, and 8...

Linux Foundation Shuts More Web Sites After Discovering Compromise

The ripple effects of an August attack on the website kernel.org washed up on the Linux Foundation last week, forcing the group to take down its Web site and warn users that their account information may have been compromised. A message posted on the Foundation’s Web site, linux.com, over the...

Microsoft to Pay $200,000 for Innovative Defense Technology in Blue Hat Prize Program

LAS VEGAS–In the face of mounting external pressure to begin paying bug bounties, Microsoft is instead launching a new program that will pay a $200,000 top prize to a security researcher who develops the most innovative defensive security technology. The program is designed to “inspire researcher...

90000 web pages infected by mass iFrame attack

90000 web pages infected by mass iFrame attack Security Experts Wayne Huang, Chris Hsiao, NightCola Lin discovered that more than 90000 web pages are infected by mass iFrame attack. There's been a mass scale injection ongoing recently, with the injected iframe pointing to willysy.com . Just Try a...

New iOS Jail Break Stokes Fears of Drive By Attacks

The clock is ticking for Apple to issue a patch for the iOS operating system that powers iPhones, iPods and iPads following the release of a remote exploit that uses specially crafted PDF files to defeat iOS’s content protection mechanisms and “jailbreak” mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad...

While U.S. Plots Cyber Strategy, Experts See Obstacles Ahead

The release of the International Strategy for Cyberspace late last month marked a major shift in the way that United States officials think about and treat information security, which now seems as if it will have a place at the table during diplomatic discussions. However, experts and U.S...

Stolen data may be sold on cyber black market !

Hackers behind what computer security experts believe could be the biggest data theft in US history may be planning to sell the information to cyber criminals for targeted scams. And while the tens of millions of names and email addresses swiped from online marketing firm Epsilon do not appear to...

QNet confirmed that e-commerce portal was down due to DDoS attack

QNet confirmed that E-commerce portal was down due to DDoS attack QNet has confirmed that its e-commerce portal was recently the target of a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack. This caused its main website to be offline for over 36 hours. QI Group IT Director, TG Kintanar said, "As a globa...

Apple Taps Security Experts Ahead Of Lion OS Release

Apple is distributing copies of its yet unreleased OS X 10.7 Lion operating system to a handful of security experts, including former Pwn2Own winner, Charlie Miller, who claims this is the first time Apple has taken such actions, according to a report from PC World. The move, believed to be a fir...

Spam Volume Recovers After Holiday Break

The amount of spam hitting users’ inboxes fell off a cliff in late December, with many security experts attributing the decline to the sudden disappearance of the Rustock botnet and other networks from the spam business. But the level of spam has begun to gain back some of the ground it lost toda...

Kryptos Logic Advisory: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Local Root

http://www.kryptoslogic.com/advisories/2010/kryptoslogic-ibm-tivoli-dsmtca.txt http://www.kryptoslogic.com/advisories/2010/kryptoslogic-ibm-tivoli-dsmtca-exploit.c ==-===-=====-=======-===========-=============-================= IBM Tivoli Storage Manager TSM Local Root Kryptos Logic, December 20...

After A Decade, Time To Rethink Microsoft's Vulnerability Ratings?

Security Experts will tell you that one year is a lifetime in the world of online threats and attacks. But eight years after Microsoft introduced its innovative severity rating system for software vulnerability, the company says its original definitions of what makes a software hole important sti...

Kryptos Logic Advisory: Winamp 5.6 Arbitrary Code Execution in MIDI Parser

http://www.kryptoslogic.com/advisories/2010/kryptoslogic-winamp-midi.txt ==-===-=====-=======-===========-=============-================= Winamp 5.6 Arbitrary Code Execution in MIDI Parser Kryptos Logic, December 2010 ==-===-=====-=======-===========-=============-================= ===== Timeline...

Password Timing Attacks Expected to Grow

A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at Black Hat. Read the full article. Computerworld...