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In an effort to spread information, associates of Anonymous targeted the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics’ website on Monday, compromising nearly 2GB of data before the server was taken offline.
Gregory Jaczko has been criticized by his peers on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, lawmakers, and the agency’s inspector general, for his confrontational management style.
MasterCard has proposed the formation of a cross-industry group to help push EMV technology forward.
The application, which has been taken down by Google, allowed attackers to steal SMS messages from infected devices.
No matter what the case may be, cyber criminals will most certainly latch on to the attention that Facebook is earning and use it for their own nefarious gain.
Trend Micro detected several emails being used in targeted attacks that contained JavaScript in the “From” field. The code was attempting to launch a DOM-based XSS attack, which would presumably yield access to the victim’s account to the attacker.
While Chicago police battled and bloodied anti-NATO protestors on Sunday, the police department’s website and that of NATO’s fell under attack. Based on the public comments, two separate groups were responsible for the attacks.
A spokesperson from NASA has told SecurityWeek that they’re investigating claims made by a group of Iranian hackers earlier this week.
Building on its success with the XBox Kinect, which uses motion to influence the actions of a software program, Microsoft is looking at sound as its next frontier for data entry.
Senior execs and board members are dropping the ball when it comes to IT risk management, a survey from RSA and Carnegie Mellon finds.
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But now ICANN is preparing to release hundreds of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) – starting most likely in late 2012 -- some concerns are being raised that users will be confused about domains beyond .com, .org, .info and other favorites.
Endpoint protection in SCADA environments can pose some interesting cyber security challenges. For example, once these systems are up and running, nothing can change without risking the reliability and continued operation of the automated process(es).
Millions of identities, credit card numbers and user login credentials are still being compromised every year by hackers getting into web sites we believe are secure. This valuable information will, undoubtedly, end up in the wrong hands.
SCADA networks are the most unprotected networks of all and now cyber-criminals have them in their sights. If they get access, the consequences for many organizations, their customers and perhaps the population at large, could be extremely damaging.
The Information Security Industry has contributed towards the escalation in conflict with hacktivists, providing instruction and knowledge to industry outsiders.
Tucked away in a small town outside Moscow, Russia one of the world’s most prolific and effective cybercriminals works away on the next version of malicious software that will enable the theft of millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims around the world.
When it comes to security, executive management can be compared to restaurant patrons; they just want to know the perfect food and wine pairing and be assured that both are available.
“Big security data” consists of data sets that grow so massive that they become awkward to work with using the database management tools that you have on hand. A few extra gigabytes here and terabytes there, and before you know it, you've got a big security data problem.
CISPA doesn’t come close to addressing the root of the cyber security realities the country is facing. People are focusing on the information sharing as a conduit to destroy people’s privacy, which is a different argument all together from protecting our critical national communications infrastructure.
Advocates of secure development say that proponents of WAFs are pushing a technology that is simply a band-aid for applications that need to be fixed as part of the System Development Life Cycle. Here's why that's not true.
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