Firms Warn of Rising Threat From NTP Amplification DDoS Attacks
Prolexic Technologies and Arbor Networks both issued warnings to organizations this week about the increased threat of NTP amplification DDoS attacks. According toAkamai-owned Prolexic Technologies,...
View ArticleOracle VirtualBox Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities Uncovered
Researchers at Core Security uncovered a set of serious vulnerabilities affecting Oracle VirtualBox that can be targeted to remotely execute code. VirtualBox is a virtualization software package for...
View ArticleVIDEO: Bruce Schneier on Incident Response and His Next Book
Bruce Schneier explains the role that incident response technology should play in the modern IT security landscape.
View ArticleHITRUST Announces Threat Briefings, Cyber Alerts for Healthcare Industry
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) announced on Thursday that it will conduct monthly cyber threat briefings in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and will...
View ArticleMove Over ’123456′: Passwords Go High-Tech Too
HANOVER – Internet users may before long have a secure solution to the modern plague of passwords, in which they can use visual patterns or even their own body parts to identify themselves. Developers...
View ArticleMeet The Real-Life Hacker Behind The Character On ‘House of Cards’
Being the hacker consultant for “House of Cards” sounds like a great job, but it has its limitations: You can control the rats, but not the guinea pigs.
View ArticleKremlin website hit by ‘powerful’ cyber attack
Hackers knocked out the Russian presidency’s website several times on Friday and brought down the central bank website, the Kremlin press service said.
View ArticlePwn2Own: 14 browser and plugin exploits the NSA won’t be buying
The Pwn2Own contest has secured at least 14 flaws for vendors to fix.
View ArticleUK Supermarket Chain Morrisons Suffers Data Breach
Morrisons, the United Kingdoms fourth largest supermarket chain, has suffered a major data breach. The company says that someone has managed to steal the personal and financial information of employees...
View ArticleInvitations for Grand Theft Auto 5 PC Beta Testing Hide Malware
The PC version of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 5 might become available at some point, but for the time being, it doesnt exist, not even in Beta. If you receive an email that appears to be an invitation for...
View ArticleGitHub Provides Details on DDOS Attack That Made Services Unreachable for 2...
GitHub has been hit by another distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. Since the attack has been bigger than previous ones, the code repository has decided to share some details about it and the...
View ArticleMajor companies, like Target, often fail to act on malware alerts
Target paid the price for its apparent failure; other big firms follow the same pattern and could face the same fate, analyst say Companies that suffer major data breaches almost always portray...
View ArticleHackers Who Hijacked Mt. Gox CEO’s Blog Tricked People into Installing...
Last week, hackers breached and defaced the blog of Mark Karpeles, the CEO of the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. They claimed to have exposed Karpeles lies about hundreds of thousands of customer Bitcoins...
View ArticleLookout Names Former Akamai Exec Jim Dolce as CEO
Mobile security firm Lookout, Inc. announced on Thursday that Jim Dolce has taken the role as the CEO of the company, replacing Founder John Hering. Dolce comes to the mobile security firm from Akamai...
View ArticleSingapore to Regulate Bitcoin Exchanges, Vendors
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s central bank said Thursday it will regulate “intermediaries” for the Bitcoin virtual currency to prevent them from being used for money laundering and terrorist financing....
View ArticleBanks to be hit with Microsoft costs for running outdated ATMs
Banks around the world, consumed with meeting more stringent capital regulations, will miss a deadline to upgrade outdated software for automated teller machines and face additional costs to Microsoft...
View ArticleUS to Relinquish Key Oversight Role for Internet
WASHINGTON – The US government announced Friday it was giving up its key role in charge of the Internet’s technical operations, handing over those functions to “the global multistakeholder community.”...
View ArticleUS Defends Surveillance Before UN Rights Panel
GENEVA – The United States defended its controls on mass surveillance on Friday before a UN watchdog body amid a sweeping review of Washington’s record on civil and political rights. The US government...
View ArticleMind your wallet: Why the underworld loves bitcoin
Criminals may already have made off with up to $500 million worth of bitcoins since the virtual currency launched in 2009 – and you can double that if it turns out they emptied Mt.
View ArticleWiFi Security Truths and Falsehoods – community blog from Robert Siciliano
Security truths evolve-meaning, they change, and you must keep up with this, particularly with wireless security.
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