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ManTech Hacked! Anonymous Begins Release of Documents

Hacking Laptop Batteries

Dell SecureWorks announced that starting in August, it will provide management and monitoring services for Next-Generation Firewalls from Palo Alto Networks.

Has the U.S. Government Landed itself on the Cutting Edge of Technology?

Anonymous and Lulz Security, in an open letter to PayPal and its customers titled, “A message to PayPal, its customers, and our friends,” is taking a new approach to punish the company, this time legally, with what some are calling "DBoS" or Distributed Boycott of Service, a play on illegal DDoS attacks, a tactic that hacktivists have used in the past.

Most reports on consumerization of technology, or “bring your own device,” are somewhat negative—at least from the view of IT and Security departments. We hear about all the threats, and challenges in managing multiple device types, enabling these devices on corporate networks and maintaining security and control over the devices and what goes on them.

Penetration Testing Platform Introduces Interface for SIEM Integration, Public and Private Cloud Deployments, Brings New SCADA Exploits and MoreRapid7, a Boston-based provider of vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, today announced the launch of Metasploit Pro 4.0, the latest edition of its penetration testing solution.

Good Software to be Offered with SteelCloud's Appliance Technology to Deliver iPhone and Android Security to the GovernmentSteelCloud, Inc. and Good Technology today announced a partnership that will bring together SteelCloud and Good Technology's Good For Government™ enterprise-class mobile mail and personal information management solution to address government mobile security requirements.

Dallas based Entrust, announced today that Jon Callas, a co-founder of PGP Corporation, has been appointed Chief Technology Officer for the company.

WhiteHat Security, a provider of website risk management solutions, has secured $8 million in new capital to fuel company growth. In its growth plans, the in Santa Clara, California based company says it will open a Threat Research Center in Houston, Texas, and increase its staff nearly sixty percent in 2011. The company also is rumored to have a new product line in the works.

For many years law enforcement turned to the public for aid in identifying and tracking criminal suspects. This was done through famous WANTED posters and, later as technology progressed, featuring them in television shows such as “America’s Most Wanted”.

Passware, a provider of password cracking software, today said that the latest edition of its flagship password cracking forensic suite, Passware Kit Forensic v11, can extract Mac OS X Lion user login passwords from system memory in a matter of minutes.

The number of top-level domains on the Internet is set to increase dramatically over the next few years. Today's familiar .com, .org and .info addresses are going to be supplemented with dozens or hundreds of new extensions such as .blog, .sport, .london, .music and .gay. This rapid expansion will happen under the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program launched by ICANN, the non-profit organization that oversees the Domain Name System (DNS).

F5 Networks announced enhancements to its application and data security solutions designed to help customers combat cyber attacks and prevent loss of service and data.

Data security firm Imperva, today released the results of study which revealed that web applications are probed or attacked about 27 times per hour or about once every two minutes.As a part of the company’s ongoing Hacker Intelligence Initiative, Imperva monitored and categorized more than 10 million individual attacks across the internet, including attacks witnessed via onion router (TOR) traffic as well as attacks targeting 30 different enterprise and government web applications.

Oslo, Norway based Norman, a provider of malware analysis solutions, today announced the launch of its next generation malware analysis platform, Norman Malware Analyzer G2.The G2 platform incorporates new sandboxing technology that emulates Windows environments, enabling malware analysts to observe malware’s behavior – including in virtualized environments – without putting live, operational systems at risk.

A hacker that had been found with more than 675,000 stolen credit card numbers that reportedly led to loses totaling more than $36 million, was sentenced on Friday to 120 months in prison. After pleading guilty on April 21, 2011, Rogelio Hackett Jr., 25, of Lithonia, Georgia, was slapped with a maximum prison sentence and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine by a U.S. District Judge in Alexandria, Virginia, for trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and aggravated identity theft.

BlackBerry PlayBook Becomes Security Certified for U.S. Government

Following the tragic events in Oslo, Norway where at least 80 people are dead as a result of a shooting rampage, and seven others killed after a bomb exploded in government offices, cybercriminals are already capitalizing on the tragedy.

When he was a puppy, my dog watched a lady bug crawl across a window on our back porch. Eventually, the lady bug fell, and as it lay upside down on the carpet flipping its wings and wiggling its legs, my dog snapped it up, licking his chops. He immediately started gacking, and soon spit the lady bug back out, scraping the roof of his mouth with his tongue. Later that day, another lady bug dropped next to him, and...