Pentagon Chief to Head to Saudi, Israel Next Week
WASHINGTON – US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will fly to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel next week for talks that are expected to focus on Iran’s nuclear program and Syria’s civil war, officials said...
View ArticleThe Three Ds of Incident Response
As security organizations seek better ways to respond more quickly to insider threat security incidents, they can gain a lot of speed and effectiveness by taking a fundamental three-pronged approach. I...
View ArticleDo You Need EV-SSL? [VIDEO]
CEO of Comodo and key contributor to the EV-SSL standard explains why extended validation SSL matters but why you might not always actually need it.
View ArticleNavy Carrier-Based Hacker Targets Gov Networks
A gang of hackers that included a service member on a nuclear aircraft carrier breached the Pentagon’s National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the biometric Transportation Worker Identification System...
View ArticleHackers capture dynamic data to prepare for effective, stealthy attacks
Offensive forensics is an attack technique hackers use to capture non-static data that can be useful in performing further attacks, says Joe Sremack, Principal, Berkeley Research Group, LLC, a computer...
View ArticleThe Hacker Who Worked on a Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier
A French military plane flies over the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Oman.
View ArticleWhat Bitly Breach Means for You
Access to Bitly accounts might be attractive to criminals, because many are connected to users’ Facebook and Twitter profiles, potentially opening the door to sending spam links and scam campaigns via...
View Articlea DOJ seeks to lift limits on hacking into suspects’ computers
The US Justice Department wants authorities to have more leeway to hack into computers – at times with “zero-day exploits” on software vulnerabilities – amid criminal probes.
View ArticleArtists Etch Comic Strip Into a Single Strand of Hair
To promote the upcoming Exceptional Hardware Software Meeting in Hamburg, Germany, a team of DIY artists and scientists has etched the world’s smallest comic strip on a single human hair.
View ArticleHouse Panels Approve Anti-surveillance Bill
WASHINGTON – US lawmakers Thursday advanced a measure that reins in NSA surveillance Thursday, signaling final passage of reforms aimed at ending bulk data collection could come quicker than expected....
View ArticleJuvenile that hacked Catholic school system caught
Internet and email were down all day Thursday at the O’Gorman junior and senior high schools and at the six Catholic elementary schools in Sioux Falls.
View ArticleCybercrime boss offers a Ferrari for hacker who dreams up the biggest scam
The leader of a global cybercrime syndicate offered his associates a Ferrari for the hacker who came up with the best scam, according to a senior European security source.
View ArticleYes emails WERE hacked
A political row has erupted after a police investigation found a mystery hacker accessed the personal email account of a Yes Scotland staff member.
View ArticleAntivirus is dead: Symantec
Symantec, maker of the widely used Norton Antivirus software suite, has declared that antivirus technology “is dead”.
View ArticleSmall Business: Firms hit hard by credit card hackers
Small companies are in the front line of a credit card hacking boom and face serious costs if their lax systems allow customer data to be lost.
View ArticleHere Are The Biggest Problems With The Password, And Why They May Not Go Away...
Two years, ago Wired reporter Matt Honan had his entire digital life erased . His AppleID and accounts with Google, Twitter, and Amazon had all been compromised in the span of one hour.
View ArticleCybersecurity insurance may push companies to better security
Cybersecurity insurance is probably a requirement now for a business of any import, and the insurers are looking in on customers to try to prevent breaches.
View ArticleSplunk Releases Splunk Enterprise 6.1
Splunk, a San Francisco, California-based provider of software that helps organizations gather and make use of machine data from a diverse set of sources, has released a new version of its flagship...
View ArticleUK tax office unlawfully hid export data of cyber-espionage tech to...
HMRC acted unlawfully by failing to disclose whether or not a body of evidence claiming tech sales of surveillance software to repressive regimes had been rejected.
View ArticleUsers Warned of Fake Websites Advertising Free Tickets to Rolling Stones...
Are you a Rolling Stones fan? If so, you should be on the lookout for shady websites and social media pages advertising ticket giveaways for a Rolling Stones concert. According to an advisory posted by...
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