U.S. Weapons Programs Lack 'Key' Cybersecurity Measures

Weapons programs from the U.S. Department of Defense DoD are falling short when it comes to incorporating cybersecurity requirements, according to a new watchdog report. While the DoD has developed a range of policies aimed at hardening the security for its weapon systems, the guidance leaves out...

North Korean Hackers Used 'Torisma' Spyware in Job Offers-based Attacks

A cyberespionage campaign aimed at aerospace and defense sectors in order to install data gathering implants on victims' machines for purposes of surveillance and data exfiltration may have been more sophisticated than previously thought. The attacks, which targeted IP-addresses belonging to...

File Containment Vulnerability in Tongda OA11.2

Ltd. is subordinate to China National Weapons Industry Information Center CNWIIC, which is referred to as Tongda Xinke. A file inclusion vulnerability exists in Tongda OA11.2, which can be exploited by an attacker to obtain server administrative privileges...

EU sanctions hackers from China, Russia, North Korea who're wanted by the FBI

The Council of the European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against persons or entities involved in various cyber-attacks targeting European citizens, and its member states. The directive has been issued against six individuals and three entities responsible for or involved in various...

Theft of CIA's 'Vault 7' Secrets Tied to 'Woefully Lax" Security

A just-released report on the 2016 Central Intelligence Agency CIA data breach, which led to the Vault 7 document dump on WikiLeaks, blames “woefully lax” security by the nation’s top spy agency. The conclusions were part of an internal 2017 Department of Justice DoJ report on the CIA breach. On...

Coder-Turned-Kingpin Paul Le Roux Gets His Comeuppance

The programmer who became a flagrant drug lord and weapons trafficker was sentenced in New York City to 25 years in prison...

Kids on the Web in 2020

Technology is what is saving us from a complete change in the way of life in a world of a raging pandemic. It keeps the educational process going, relieves the shortage of human communication and helps us to live life as fully as possible given the isolation and social distancing. Many adults, an...

‘Nonlethal’ Anti-Protest Weapons Can Cause Serious Harm

Rubber bullets and tear gas are billed as relatively safe. They're anything but...

MGASA-2020-0190 Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability

Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability crawl 0.24.0 and earlier are subject to possible remote code evaluation with lua loadstring CVE-2020-11722. This update fixes it, also updating crawl from version 0.23.2 to 0.24.1, with the following main gameplay changes: Vampire species simplifi...

Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability

Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability crawl 0.24.0 and earlier are subject to possible remote code evaluation with lua loadstring CVE-2020-11722. This update fixes it, also updating crawl from version 0.23.2 to 0.24.1, with the following main gameplay changes: Vampire species simplifi...

openSUSE Security Update : crawl (openSUSE-2020-549)

This update for crawl fixes the following issues : - CVE-2020-11722: Fixed a remote code evaluation issue with lua loadstring boo1169381 Update to version 0.24.0 - Vampire species simplified - Thrown weapons streamlined - Fedhas reimagined - Sif Muna reworked Update to version 0.23.2 - Trap syste...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for crawl (openSUSE-SU-2020:0549-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

A Brisk Private Trade in Zero-Days Widens Their Use

There were more zero-days exploited in 2019 than any of the previous three years, according to telemetry from FireEye Mandiant. The firm said that’s likely due to more zero-days coming up for sale by cyber-weapons dealers like NSO Group; a growing commercial market has made such tools much more...

Ex-CIA Accused of Leaking Secret Hacking Tools to WikiLeaks Gets Mistrial

A federal judge in New York on Monday declared a mistrial in the case of a former CIA software engineer who was accused of stealing a massive trove of the agency's classified hacking and tools and leaking it to WikiLeaks whistleblower website. While the jury was unable to reach a verdict on eight...

Researchers Claim CIA Was Behind 11-Year-Long Hacking Attacks Against China

Qihoo 360, one of the most prominent cybersecurity firms, today published a new report accusing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA to be behind an 11-year-long hacking campaign against several Chinese industries and government agencies. The targeted industry sectors include aviation...

How Close Is Iran to a Nuclear Weapon? Here's What We Know

Iran is no longer abiding by many of the restrictions in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, but that doesn’t mean it’s about to build a bomb, either...

Report: The Government and Tech Need to Cooperate on AI

It also warns that AI-enhanced national security apparatus like autonomous weapons and surveillance systems will raise ethical questions...

U.S. Sanctions North Korean Group Behind WannaCry, Sony Hacks

The U.S. has slapped sanctions on three well-known North Korean state-sponsored hacker groups – including the group that was tied to the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attacks and the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. The three that were sanctioned are the infamous Lazarus Group, as well...

File Containment Vulnerability in Tongda OA 2017

Ltd. is subordinate to China National Weapons Industry Information Center CNWIIC, which is referred to as Tongda Xinke. It is a high-tech team with the main business of collaborative management software development and implementation, service and consulting. A file inclusion vulnerability exists ...

AI Isn't Good Enough When Lives Are on the Line, Experts Warn

LONDON, UK – With the infosec community eyeing artificial intelligence as the next big frontier for cyber defense, experts here at Infosecurity Europe on Tuesday warned that several challenges in how AI processes and interprets data need to first be fleshed out before widespread adoption. AI, in...