Latest iPhone Security Update Already Beaten
An article from Tech News Daily on iphone security update: Security compromisers may not be the most beloved demographic on the Web, but they're nothing if not industrious. Apple's latest iOS update, 6.1.3, has been out for less than two days, but one trickster has already infiltrated the update. Using only a paperclip and some […]
A DHL delivery which is nothing but malware - Windows users warned of email attack
An article from Dark reading: Just earlier this week, I warned about a malware attack that had been widely spammed out posing as a message from DHL Express International. The trick, which is an old one, goes like this. Cybercriminals spam out an email, with forged header information, tricking you into believing that it is […]
Five Hurdles That Slow Database Security Adoption
An article from dark reading in there Database Security section: In spite of a fairly mature product set and boardroom directives to protect sensitive databases, the average enterprise today still has a long way to go before it'll apply comprehensive database security technology and processes to all of their critical databases, let alone all of […]
'Chameleon Botnet' takes $6-million-a-month in ad money
An article from Cnet news about Botnet : A newly discovered botnet has found a way to siphon cash from advertisers. Spider.io, a security researcher, yesterday announced that it has discovered a new botnet, called Chameleon, that's targeting "at least" 202 Web sites. The botnet is made up of over 120,000 host machines running Windows, […]
Exposed Devices Used as Botnet to Scan Internet
An article from threat post about botnet: A controversial Internet scanning project has come under fire for illegally accessing and running code on remote machines. The Internet Census 2012 project, revealed Sunday in a post to Seclists.org, discovered 420,000 embedded devices accessible using default credentials. The unnamed researcher behind the project then used the devices […]
Hackers to invade South Florida for HackMiami 2013 Hacking Conference
Hackers and information security professionals will descend upon South Florida during the HackMiami 2013 Hackers Conference taking place on May 17-19, 2013, at the Miami Beach Holiday Inn Oceanfront Hotel. The HackMiami 2013 Hackers Conference seeks to bring together the brightest minds within the information security industry and the digital underground. MIAMI, Fla., March 19, […]
Cryptographers Demonstrate New Crack For Common Web Encryption
An article from Forbes in there Security section about Web Encryption: It’s long been known that one of the oldest and most widely used standards for encrypting web sites has some serious weaknesses. But one group of researchers has found a method that downgrades that security scheme from vaguely flawed to demonstrably breakable. To read […]
Hackers launch DDoS attack on security blogger's site, send SWAT team to his home
An article from naked security about a hacker launch DDOS on a security blogger web site: Given a DOSed website, a fake and libelous FBI letter sent to his website host, and a dinner party delayed by a SWAT team training guns on him and ordering him to "Put your hands in the air!", Krebs […]
Security Apple Patches OS and Browser Vulnerabilities
An article from tech news daily about Apple browser vulnerability: Apple doesn't release comprehensive software updates very often, but when it does, they contain pretty major fixes. Its latest package for Mac computers contains updates for the Safari browser as well as Mountain Lion, Apple's current operating system. Users on older machines can breathe a […]
What 420,000 insecure devices reveal about Web security
An article for Cnet new about Web security: A researcher used a simple, binary technique to take control of more than 420,000 insecure devices including Webcams, routers, and printers running on the Internet -- and says that's just a hint of the potential for real trouble to get started. In a Seclists posting yesterday, the […]