GAO: Flaws in IRS Network Could Put Taxpayer Information in Jeopardy

The United States Government Accountability Office GAO believes that “serious weaknesses remain” in the ways that the Internal Revenue Service handles its internal network, problems that could directly implicate taxpayer data according to a report the regulatory group released on Friday. The...

Study Shows One in Four Who Receive Data Breach Letter Become Fraud Victims

A study released Wednesday shows one in four consumers who receive a data breach letter become the victim of identity fraud. That statistic represented 12.6 million victims last year — one million more than the year before, according to the 2013 Identity Fraud Report released by Javelin Strategy ...

Cybersecurity Executive Order Short on Action, Long on Voluntary Initiatives

The executive order that President Barack Obama signed yesterday in advance of his State of the Union Address contains a lot of provisions for information sharing on attacks and threats on critical infrastructure, and also calls for the development of a framework to reduce cybersecurity risks in...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: freeciv-2.3.3-1.fc18

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-2012-20610

Check for the Version of freeciv OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for freeciv FEDORA-2012-20610 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 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-2012-20623

Check for the Version of freeciv OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for freeciv FEDORA-2012-20623 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: freeciv-2.3.3-1.fc16

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 17 Update: freeciv-2.3.3-1.fc17

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...

SQL Injection framework: Seringa

Seringa – SQL Injection framework Seringa Romanian for seringe is an SQL injection framework featuring high customizability and a user-friendly interface. It is completely open source. Uses the .NET 4.0 framework and Windows Presentation FoundationWPF for the GUI. With regard to design it utilize...

LeBron James, Advanced Attackers and the Best Man Theory

There is a line of thinking that pervades and pollutes the discussions of many sporting events, and it goes something like this: “You can’t let LeBron James/Derek Jeter/Lionel Messi beat you. You have to force someone else to beat you.” It’s a flawed strategy for a number of reasons, but it’s eve...

Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired

Privileged accounts have become an important attack vector, and if a recent survey of mostly IT managers and executives is any indication that threat will continue to grow. According to results of ID management provider Cyber-Ark’s sixth annual global “Trust, Security and Passwords Survey,” just...

May 2012 – Mythic/Kickstarter

‘Mythic: Stories of Gods and Men’ was yanked from the increasingly popular crowd-funding website, Kickstarter, earlier this year after it became apparent that the game was, in actuality, a sham. Mythic touted itself as an action/strategy based role playing game and managed to raise $4,739 from 83...

White House Security Czar Howard Schmidt Retiring

Howard Schmidt, the top White House information security adviser, is retiring after more than two years on the job and several decades in security both in government and private industry. Schmidt is in his second stint as the White House security chief and he’s leaving at a time when cybersecurit...

Brad Arkin

In a keynote on Thursday, Brad Arkin, Adobe’s Senior Director of Product Security and Privacy spoke on driving up the cost of exploits in products like Reader and Flash Player in an attempt to thwart would-be attackers. Fixing every security bug is often impossible, so instead of writing flawless...

Driving Up the Cost of Exploit Development Becomes a Key Defensive Strategy

CANCUN–The skill of attackers, combined with the difficulty and cost of finding and fixing vulnerabilities in software–especially after deployment–has reached the point that it’s now more effective and efficient for vendors to concentrate on making life more difficult for those attackers looking ...

voldemort-info NSE Script

Retrieves cluster and store information from the Voldemort distributed key-value store using the Voldemort Native Protocol. Example Usage nmap -p 6666 --script voldemort-info Script Output PORT STATE SERVICE 6666/tcp open irc | voldemort-info: | Cluster | Name: mycluster | Id: 0 | Host: localhost...

From the In-Security Land to Security in the Cloud

From the In-Security Land to Security in the Cloud "This article aims to share with you some thoughts and concepts associated with Cloud Computing and the risks involved for those who want to venture into the benefits it offers" -- Mariano M. Río "From the In-Security Land to Security in the Clou...

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet?

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet ? Initially After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version o...

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites Several Israeli government websites crashed on Sunday in what appeared to be a cyber-attack by Anonymous hackers. The websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were among the sites that went down, as well as...

Cisco 10000 Series Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Cisco 10000 Series Router is affected by a denial of service DoS vulnerability where an attacker could cause a device reload by sending a series of ICMP packets. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability are also availabl...