Google Report Shows It Complied With 93% of U.S. Law Enforcement Data Requests

Google complied with 93 percent of the requests for user data that it received from U.S. law enforcement agencies through the first six months of this year. In the latest update to its Transparency Report, Google for the first time not only disclosed the number of requests that it receives, but...

Cloud Security Needs Continuous Monitoring to Reassure Enterprises, Panel Says

SAN FRANCISCO–A panel of cloud providers and enterprise security professionals said that in order to make enterprise security teams feel more comfortable giving up their data, cloud providers need to be more transparent and open about the security measures and processes they have in place to...

Fedora 15 : libpng10-1.0.55-1.fc15 (2011-8844)

This update fixes a 1-byte uninitialized memory reference in pngformatbuffer. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bounds read when creating the error message. This is CVE-2011-2501. Also fixed in this...

Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize !

Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize ! WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was Wednesday awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation's top honor for "exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights," joining the likes of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Assange, an Australian former computer...

Senators Press Google, Apple Execs on Privacy and Location Tracking

In a hearing on Tuesday about the amount of data that mobile device manufacturers, app developers and others collect about users’ location and activities, senators called on Apple, Google and other companies to be more open and clear with consumers about their data-collection and tracking...

Glass Dragon: China's Cyber Offense Obscures Woeful Defense

The official line in Washington D.C. is that there’s a new Cold War brewing, with an ascendant China in the place of the old Soviet Union, and cyberspace as the new theater of war. But work done by an independent security researcher suggests that the Chinese government is woefully unprepared to...

FTC: Google Used Deceptive Practices In Buzz Social Network

Search giant Google has agreed to settle a case with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday over charges that it used deceptive tactics and violated its own privacy policy when it launched Google Buzz, a social network, in 2010. Google agreed to implement a comprehensive privacy program a...

Anonymous Open Letter to Citizens of United States of America !

Anonymous Open Letter to Citizens of United States of America ! Just Now another Open Letter by Anonymous hackers released on Twitter m as below : Dear US Citizens, We, Anonymous, would like to offer you, America, the opportunity to join and support our movement.We are a group that formed on the...

Chief Spy Says U.S. Too Secret About Cyber Threats

A former CIA Director says the U.S. Government is being too secretive about cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Retired four-star General and former CIA Director, Michael Hayden writes in a recent article that Uncle Sam is too quick to classify intelligence about software security holes, preventing th...

Operation Algeria, Part 2 by Anonymous Hackers Released !

Operation Algeria, Part 2 by Anonymous Hackers Released ! FREE-THINKING CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, The Algerian government imposes, upon its own citizens, intolerable restrictions on their basic liberties. The Algerian government wants to enforce a future where injustices remain unchallenged and wher...

Vodafone Network Seized by Egyptian Authorities to Spread Propaganda Via Text Message

Vodafone released a statement yesterday confirming that the authorities in Egypt seized their network to send propaganda text messages to the Egyptian people. Such text messages have been sent since the start of the protests in an attempt to cool tensions among the protestors who are demanding th...

Researcher: Holes Abound in Chinese SCADA

The researcher who discovered a hole in a prominent SCADA software package used in China claims that holes in the country’s SCADA systems aren’t uncommon, and blames a lack of transparency for the vulnerabilities. A security researcher at NSS Labs who disclosed a critical vulnerability in a popul...

Lawmakers, Scholars Warn Against Reactionary Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation

The WikiLeaks disclosures this fall that have precipitated so much controversy and agita among national security officials and politicians should not be used as a springboard for new, more restrictive laws, lawmakers, attorneys and policy analysts said in a House hearing Thursday. In fact, the...

FTC Pushes "Do Not Track" Option For Web Browsers

The Federal Trade Commission introduced a framework today that aims to address privacy issues raised by consumers that directly affects how our activity is tracked online. The agency went on to advocate the creation of a “Do Not Track” mechanism that could help shape the future of browser securit...

Fedora Update for gif2png FEDORA-2010-0358

Check for the Version of gif2png OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gif2png FEDORA-2010-0358 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 12 Update: gif2png-2.5.1-1202.fc12

The gif2png program converts files from the obsolescent Graphic Interchange Format to Portable Network Graphics. The conversion preserves all graphic information, including transparency, perfectly. The gif2png program can even recover data from corrupted GIFs. There exists a 'web2png' program in ...

Google Overhauls Privacy Policy

Google is planning to overhaul its main privacy policy in an effort to make the document more readable and usable for normal people. In addition, Google also is eliminating privacy policies for some of its individual products and services, which it deemed redundant. The shift by Google is a prett...

Vulnerability Broker Draws Line in Disclosure Sand

Looking to put pressure on software vendors who procrastinate on fixing security flaws, the world’s biggest broker of vulnerability data is drawing a line in the sand. Starting August 4, TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative ZDI will enforce a six-month deadline for patches on all vulnerabilities...

Google Cloud Print: Thinking Through the Security, Privacy Implications

Google’s plans to introduce a Cloud Print service that’s already being hailed as “printer voodoo” because it lets users print to any printer anywhere in the world, even from mobile phones. However, there are some privacy and security implications that need to be fleshed out before end users rush ...

Mozilla Warns of Unknown Root Certificate Authority in Firefox

In a startling revelation, the open-source Mozilla project says that its flagship Firefox browser contains a root certificate authority that doesn’t seem to have a known owner. It’s quite possible that this could be a legitimate root certificate that changed hands during a merger or some other...