Theft of CIA's "Vault Seven" Hacking Tools Due to Its Own Lousy Security

The Washington Post is reporting on an internal CIA report about its "Vault 7" security breach: The breach -- allegedly committed by a CIA employee -- was discovered a year after it happened, when the information was published by WikiLeaks, in March 2017. The anti-secrecy group dubbed the release...

RHEL / CentOS 6.x (64-bit) Malicious Kernel Module Detection (OutlawCountry)

According to diagnostic indicators, the remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS host may have a malicious kernel module known as OutlawCountry installed. OutlawCountry creates a hidden netfilter table that allows an authenticated attacker to covertly override existing netfilter/iptables firewal...