Home Depot Investigating Massive Data Breach

Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a costly data breach, and if early indications are correct, the hackers may have been on the home giant’s network longer than hackers were on Target’s systems, and a greater number of consumers may be at risk. A Home Depot representative confirmed...

A New Cold War – with Many Sides

A New Cold War - with Many Sides Theres a lot we still dont know about the FBIs investigation of the data theft at JP Morgan Chase & Co. Criminal hackers based in Russia were targeting U.S. financial institutions long before Russia annexed Crimea or the West responded with sanctions. Is this trul...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome 37.0.2062.94 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This update includes 50 security fixes some of which could allow a remote attacker to obtain unauthorized access or cause a denial of service. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome release blog a...

Secret Service Backoff point of sale malware advisory

Point-of-sale malware is a problem that apparently isn’t going away any time soon. No doubt spurred on by the massive data loss absorbed in the Target data breach and most recently Supervalu grocery chains, and UPS, which disclosed last week that 51 of its stores were victimized by credit card...

Backoff Point-of-Sale Malware Campaign

US-CERT is aware of Backoff malware compromising a significant number of major enterprise networks as well as small and medium businesses. US-CERT encourages administrators and operators of Point-of-Sale systems to review the Backoff malware alert to help determine if your network may be affected...

Samsung To Pay $2.3 Million Fine for Deceiving the U.S. Government

The United States division of Samsung has been charged with deceiving the US government into believing that several of its products met the necessary US government policies, resulting in the US government buying unauthorised Chinese-made electronics. The South Korean electronics giant has agreed ...

Breach of Patient Identification Information

US-CERT is aware of a breach of sensitive patient identification information affecting approximately 4.5 million patients and customers of Community Health Systems, Inc. As part of DHS, US-CERT is working together with the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services to assist in sharing...

Hillary Clinton's Phone Intercepted by German intelligence Agency

After the allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency NSA not only conducted mass surveillance on German citizens, but also spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own personal mobile phone for years, surveillance has become a big issue for Germany. So big, that Germany itself started...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Chrome, Chrome OS and Chrome for Android. Some of these vulnerabilities could potentially allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service. Updates available include: Chrome 36.0.1985.143 for...

Worldview-3 — Satellite That Could Allow Google and U.S Government to See Your Face from Space

Majority of my articles are related to government spying, privacy and security issues of your online stuffs and also measures that you can adopt in protecting yourself from being spied on. But, your all efforts will soon be of no use - someone is about to secretly track your every footstep. Googl...

Microsoft Releases August 2014 Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, SQL Server, Server Software, .NET Framework, and Internet Explorer as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2014. Some of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution, elevation of...

Wendy Nather on the Black Hat Buzz

Dennis Fisher talks with Wendy Nather of 451 Research about the happenings on day one of Black Hat, the possibility of the US government disrupting the vulnerability market and software liability.​ Download: Wendy-Nather-on-the-Black-Hat-Buzz.mp3...

Breaking - Edward Snowden Get 3 More Years In Russia

The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 31-year-old global surveillance whistleblower and former U.S. intelligence contractor, who has received a three- year residence permit from Russia, his lawyer announced on Today. “On the...

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection

US-CERT is aware of a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection. This vulnerability affects all versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection Client 11.x and 12.x running Application and Device Control. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to gain ful...

Cisco Patches Wireless Residential Gateway Vulnerabilities

US-CERT issued an advisory yesterday warning of a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Wireless Residential Gateway. Cisco has patched the vulnerability and also released its own warning, informing customers of a remote code execution vulnerability in the web server used by the gateway that is prese...

Germany to Consider Typewriters to Protect From US Spying

So far we have heard that using privacy tools by every individual and offering encrypted communication by every company is the only solution to Mass Surveillance conducted by the government and law enforcement authorities. But, Germany says the only solution to guard against surveillance is - Sto...

Oracle Releases July 2014 Security Advisory

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for July 2014 to address 113 vulnerabilities across multiple products. This update contains the following security fixes: 5 for Oracle Database Server 29 for Oracle Fusion Middleware 7 for Oracle Hyperion 1 for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 5...

Chinese Hackers Broke into the Database of U.S. Federal Employees

Chinese hackers broke into the computer systems of United States government agency that keeps the personal information of all federal employees, according to the paper published in the New York Times. The attack occurred on the Office of Personnel Management and Senior American officials believe...

Deep Panda China Hackers Compromise Security Think Tanks

Computers at a number of unnamed national security think tanks were compromised by hackers linked to China trying to glean intelligence on U.S. policy in Iraq as civil unrest escalates in the Middle East country. The attacks mark a shift in tactics by this particular group, which generally keeps...

Microsoft Releases July 2014 Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Service Bus for Windows Server as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for July 2014. Some of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution, elevation of privilege, or denia...