CVE-2010-5141

wxBitcoin and bitcoind before 0.3.5 do not properly handle script opcodes in Bitcoin transactions, which allows remote attackers to spend bitcoins owned by other users via unspecified vectors...

Government's Cloud Audit Program Falls Behind Schedule

In a speech on Wednesday, Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel said that a federal plan for qualifying and providing security audits on private sector cloud providers will become mandatory for any agency that wanted to contact with third party cloud providers, according to a report ...

Cybercrime Profits Approaching Those Of The Drug Trade?

The yearly cost of cybercrime may have surpassed that brought in by the illegal trades in marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined, and could be rapidly approaching the entire value of global drug trafficking, according to a new survey conducted by security firm Symantec. Annual losses resulting fr...

Recent Surveys Reveal Trends and Spending Habits for Retailers in PCI Compliance

Recently, Gartner Research released two separate research reports on retailer PCI DSS compliance progress, trends and strategies. These reports are based on a survey of 77 merchants of varying sizes and covers a wide range of topics, including compliance status, spending and the incidence of...

10) One word: Cash

Not to sound like a luddite but – to paraphrase “Joshua,” the supercomputer from War Games – the only way you can be sure you’ll win in the war against hackers and cyber criminals is not to play. Which is our way of saying that if you can’t make peace with the security implications that go along...