Identity Theft Down, Losses Up

The number of identity theft victims in 2010 dropped 28 percent, yet individuals lost more on average than ever before, suggesting that attackers’ techniques are getting more sophisticated. According to a survey on consumer fraud released by Javelin Strategy & Research on Tuesday, annual fraud wa...

Report : A global shift in cybercrime !!

The target of attacks has shifted from traditional infrastructure to mobile users and endpoint devices, according to a new report. Research from SpiderLabs found that malicious tools became more customized, automated and persistent in 2010. This trend combined with the popularity of mobile device...

Fedora Update for freeciv FEDORA-2010-12371

Check for the Version of freeciv OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for freeciv FEDORA-2010-12371 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Fedora Update for mod_fcgid FEDORA-2010-17474

Check for the Version of modfcgid OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for modfcgid FEDORA-2010-17474 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Microsoft Office艺术绘图记录解析内存破坏漏洞（MS10-087）

BUGTRAQ ID: 44656 CVE ID: CVE-2010-3334 Microsoft Office是非常流行的办公软件套件。 Office在解析艺术绘图记录时没有充分地执行验证，如果msofbtSp记录指定了某些标志就可以触发内存破坏，导致执行任意代码。 Microsoft Office XP SP3 Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Microsoft Office 2010 Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Microsoft Office 2003...

Canada Aims to Strengthen Cyber Defense with $90 Million Security Plan

Canada released its Cybersecurity Strategy this month, emphasizing the immense challenge of protecting government and corporate computer systems. “There is no simple way to detect, identify, and recover from attackers who cannot be seen or heard, who leave no physical evidence behind them, and wh...

Microsoft ASP.NET - Padding Oracle File Download (MS10-070)

Microsoft ASP.NET - Padding Oracle File Download MS10-070 !/usr/bin/ruby -w aspxpochotextattack.rb Copyright c 2010 AmpliaSECURITY. All rights reserved http://www.ampliasecurity.com Agustin Azubel - [email protected] MS10-070 ASPX proof of concept Decrypt data using Vaudenay's...

U.S. Wants "Cyber Shield" for NATO

The U.S. and its NATO allies should build a ‘cyber shield’ to protect against future attacks, the Pentagon’s 2 man said in a speech in Brussels. A senior official at the Department of Defense urged the U.S.’s European allies to erect a “Cyber Shield” to protect NATO members against Internet based...

Thumb Drive Attack in 2008 Compromised Classified U.S. Networks

A senior official at the Department of Defense is talking publicly about a 2008 security breach that he claims compromised classified intelligence networks used by the U.S. military. Classified networks used by the U.S. military were the target of a successful attack by a foreign nation in 2008,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc13

Freeciv is a turn-based, multi-player, X based strategy game. Freeciv is generally comparable to, and has compatible rules with, the Civilization IIR game by MicroproseR. In Freeciv, each player is the leader of a civilization, and is competing with the other players in order to become the leader...

[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc12

Freeciv is a turn-based, multi-player, X based strategy game. Freeciv is generally comparable to, and has compatible rules with, the Civilization IIR game by MicroproseR. In Freeciv, each player is the leader of a civilization, and is competing with the other players in order to become the leader...

Fedora Update for freeciv FEDORA-2010-12256

Check for the Version of freeciv OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for freeciv FEDORA-2010-12256 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Fedora Update for freeciv FEDORA-2010-12262

Check for the Version of freeciv OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for freeciv FEDORA-2010-12262 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc14

Freeciv is a turn-based, multi-player, X based strategy game. Freeciv is generally comparable to, and has compatible rules with, the Civilization IIR game by MicroproseR. In Freeciv, each player is the leader of a civilization, and is competing with the other players in order to become the leader...

the windows shortcut file execution vulnerability and Defense strategies-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently this loophole relatively fiery, simple to say is to construct a malicious shortcut can execute the file code. The vulnerability relates to XP, Vista, Win7, etc. almost all Windows platforms, U disk, mobile phone, digital camera, iPod, etc. all USB devices will become the Trojan of the...

Government Details Vision of Trusted Identities

The White House has published a draft of a strategy designed to make the concept of trusted identities and authentication more of a reality in the digital world. Read the full article. eWEEK...

What If Bill Gates Never Wrote the Trustworthy Computing Memo?

The security industry has undergone massive changes in the last 15 years, and in some cases it’s hard to imagine what things would be like had these events not taken place. Think of a world in which Google focuses on security and privacy and Microsoft never started Trustworthy Computing, and you...

Can Howard Schmidt Make a Difference?

At first glance, the selection of Howard A. Schmidt as the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator looks like little more than a safe and easy choice designed to quiet the critics who for seven months have been howling for action from the Obama administration. But a closer look shows that Schmidt’s...

Short list emerges for cybersecurity czar job

The first reports of the short list for the job of federal cybersecurity coordinator are beginning to trickle out, and while some of the names are all too familiar, many others are quite new to the national scene. The most well-known name on the list, as reported by Reuters, is that of Scott...

New cybersecurity czar faces a tough road

While much of the reaction to President Obama’s speech on Internet security last week has centered on who Obama will name to the newly created cybersecurity coordinator position, that may be a moot point unless there is a dramatic change in the way that security is handled at the highest levels i...