U.S. Air Force designates six cybertools as weapons
An posting Cnet new from there security and privacy section: Six cybertools have been designated as weapons by the U.S. Air Force, allowing the programs to better compete for increasingly scarce Pentagon funding, an Air Force official said on Monday. Lt. Gen. John Hyten, vice commander of Air Force Space Command, told a conference held in conjunction with the […]
Microsoft fixes 9 flaws, Adobe 3 in April’s Tuesday update
No surprises, simply time to do your monthly duty on the second Tuesday of the month. No, not clean the fish tank, apply your Microsoft and Adobe fixes! As Paul pointed out last week, there are nine updates released today covering Windows, Internet Explorer, SharePoint, Defender and InfoPath. To read more click here:
Companies Buying More Insurance Against Cyberattacks
An posting from Tech news daily Companies are getting smarter about protecting themselves from cyberattacks. New research has found that the number of companies purchasing cyberinsurance increased 33 percentage points over the past year. Several industries are driving that growth. Professional, business, legal, accounting and personal services firms grew by 76 percentage points across 2012. […]
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 […]
DoD creating cyber "offensive" teams to strike back against foreign attackers
An article fro SCmagazine about new cyber team:The Department of Defense (DoD) is creating 13 teams, consisting of programmers and computer experts, whose sole mission will be to carry out offensive attacks against foreign adversaries should a critical attack on the U.S. occur. On Tuesday, National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander, who is also […]
Pentagon forming cyber teams to prevent attacks
An article from Yahoow new about the pentagon forming a cyber team: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department is establishing a series of cyber teams charged with carrying out offensive operations to combat the threat of an electronic assault on the United States that could cause major damage and disruption to the country's vital infrastructure, […]
Iran blocks use of tool to get around Internet filter
An article form NBC new in there technology section : DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have blocked the use of most "virtual private networks", a tool that many Iranians use to get around an extensive government Internet filter, Iranian media quoted an official as saying on Sunday. A widespread government Internet filter prevents Iranians from […]
Russian ransomware takes advantage of Windows PowerShell
An interesting article from Naked Security: For us in SophosLabs, ransomware is a common sight. We see many different versions every day. But as to be expected, the authors think up a new gimmick that makes us take notice. This is one of those cases. Recently we received a ransomware sample from one of our […]
Oxford University blocks Google Docs because of phishing attacks.. for 2.5 hours
An article on phishing in google doc's from Naked security: Earlier this week it was being widely reported that Oxford University had taken the drastic step of completely blocking Google Docs, after it had seen a dramatic increase in the number of phishing attacks exploiting the service, targeting staff and students. What wasn't so widely […]
Website "WeKnowYourHouse.com" Threats Your Privacy and Safety
A new website known as WeKnowYourHouse.com combinations tweets by users who write about being home and sifts through those posts to find ones that also include the users' location data. Having those two pieces of information, which are publicly available, the site also incorporates Google Streetview to post an image of the person's home.