Dave Aitel on the Sony Hack

Dennis Fisher talks with Dave Aitel of Immunity about the Sony hack, who he believes is responsible for it, what the consequences are and what the attack could mean for the way the U.S. government and private companies think about security in the future. Download: digitalunderground175.mp3 Music ...

FTC Releases "Package Delivery" Themed Scam Alert

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released a Scam Alert addressing a "Package Delivery" themed phishing campaign regarding package delivery notifications from the U.S. Postal Service. Scam operators often use false information linked to reputable organizations to imply the email is legitimate...

Spy Planes Equipped with Dirtbox Devices Collecting Smartphone Data

The U.S. government is reportedly using spy airplanes equipped with special military-grade snooping equipment to eavesdrop on cell phone information from millions of smartphone users in U.S, according to a new report. This little device, nicknamed "Dirtbox", is being used to mimic mobile phone...

Chinese Attackers Hack NOAA's Systems

Systems belonging to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA were recently compromised, purportedly by Chinese hackers. The NOAA confirmed that four of the scientific agency’s websites were targeted and compromised in an “internet-sourced attack” earlier this fall, in a statement...

Popular Science Website Infected, Serving Malware

The website of widely read Popular Science magazine is reportedly hosting a malicious script that is redirecting site visitors to a third-party domain containing an exploit kit, which is infecting users by uploading files containing malware to their machines. To give an idea of the scope of this...

U.S. vulnerability management library released Bash vulnerability latest summary-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Introduction NVD National Vulnerability Databaseis the U.S. government based on vulnerability management data of the standard Knowledge Base, these data support the automation of vulnerability management and security testing, and follow Federal Information Security Management act FISMA is...

Chinese Hackers Hacked Into U.S. Defense Contractors 20 Times In Just One Year

Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government have successfully infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. defense contractors working with the government agency responsible for the transportation of military troops and goods across the globe, a Senate investigators have found. The Senate...

Home Depot Data Breach Confirmed

Home Depot today finally confirmed that its payment systems have been breached, but a number of crucial questions remain unanswered by the giant home improvement retailer. In a statement released late this afternoon, Home Depot said customers using payment cards at its U.S. and Canada locations,...

ICREACH — NSA's Secret Google-Like Search Engine for Metadata Analysis

The United States National Security Agency NSA is using a massive information sharing platform that allows multiple law enforcement agencies to infiltrate more than 850 billion communications records detailing e-mails, phone calls, instant messages, and phone geolocation, according to the...

Intelligence Insiders Disclose Bug Information With Tor

The executive director of the Tor Project told the BBC that U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies are in an internal cat and mouse game, with one faction trying to break the anonymity network, and another one sharing bugs anonymously with Tor developers. Andrew Leman, in an extensive...

Keeping your restaurant & hospitality Cardholder Data Environment safe

Reports of new credit card data breaches seem to be in the news daily. Recent high profile breaches within major retailers this year should serve as a wake-up call to the restaurant and hospitality industries. As a result of having high volumes of credit card transactions and decentralized securi...

Microsoft Exec Says Company Has Never Been Asked to Backdoor a Product

One of Microsoft’s top security executives said the company has never been asked by the United States government to build a backdoor into any of its products, and if the company was asked, it would fight the order in the courts. Since the Edward Snowden revelations began last summer, there have...

NSA Searched Section 702 Data for U.S. Identifiers 198 Times in 2013

The U.S. intelligence community historically has been loathe to release virtually any information about the way that its agencies operates, to the point that the existence of some of those agencies themselves was secret for decades. But in the wake of the Snowden leaks, more and more information ...

Patched Code-Execution Bug Affects Most Android Users

A serious code-execution vulnerability in Android 4.3 and earlier was patched in KitKat, the latest version of the operating system. Researchers at IBM this week disclosed the nature of the vulnerability, which was privately disclosed to the Android Security Team in September and patched last...

House Amendment Limits Funding for NSA Surveillance

The House of Representatives last night overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act that would cut funding for two programs that grant intelligence agencies access to the private data and communications of U.S. citizens. The amendment shows that Congress is...

U.S. Marshals Auctioning Off Seized Silk Road Bitcoins

If any further evidence was required that up is down and black is white, the United States government is now in the business of selling Bitcoins. At least for one day. The U.S. Marshals Service is planning to hold a one-day auction on June 27 to sell nearly 30,000 Bitcoins the government seized i...

Blackshades RAT Takedown Leads to 90 Arrests

More than 90 arrests have been made in connection with development and sales of a remote access Trojan used worldwide to steal data and spy on victims, including Syrian dissidents. The FBI and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office yesterday announced the takedown of the Blackshades operation...

U.S. Indicts Five Chinese Army Officers for Alleged Cyberespionage Operations

The United States government on Monday made an unprecedented move in its efforts to combat cyberespionage operations against American companies, efforts that until now had mainly consisted of strongly worded statements and diplomacy. The Department of Justice indicted five officers of the Chinese...

Retailers Form ISAC to Share Threat Data

From the beginning of the cybercrime epidemic, retailers have been among the most frequent targets, and the last year has seen some of the larger compromises in history. The Target data breach is at the top of that list, involving more than 100 million customers, and after years of increasingly...

Analyze Cryptographic Specifications: Cryptol

The Cryptol specification language was designed by Galois for the NSA’s Trusted Systems Research Group as a public standard for specifying cryptographic algorithms. A reference specification can serve as the formal documentation for a cryptographic module. Unlike current specification mechanisms,...