Blog Posts Tagged with "hackers"
Hacking Strikes Fear in the Heart of Texas Bureau of Prisons
June 24, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Whether you call them hackers, makers, tinkerers, or information security researchers, people on the hacking spectrum have been a boon to society for decades. They power innovation in all sectors and operate as a valuable check on the security and stability of the technology that forms the basis for our society...
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Medical Device Security: This Time It’s Personal
June 22, 2012 Added by:shawn merdinger
The work done by security researchers on their own devices is only the beginning of what we can expect will be a deluge of medical device related vulnerabilities, and it’s worthwhile to explore some of the reasons as to why the current situation is the way it is now...
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Infosec: Too Many Questions
June 20, 2012 Added by:Wendy Nather
Does having one machine on a botnet at some point automatically mean that more nefarious things are going on besides just selling V1agr4 or perhaps DDoSing the Anonymous target of the week? This is the risk calculation that we need more data to perform, and it's one that the C-suite would really appreciate...
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Active Defense: The New Digital Wild West Justice
June 19, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
This will just get out of hand and incredibly stupid. Sure, you can say that you are just going to maybe tarpit those attackers to prevent them from getting in quickly, but, you have to know that there will be (already are) services where blackhat types will hack back against those who “dun you wrong”...
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We Don’t Need Cyber-Vigilante Justice
June 15, 2012 Added by:Andy Willingham
You see what made me so mad? It wasn’t the release of the PII of all those innocent people, it was their reason for doing it. They reported a web site vulnerability and it wasn’t fixed, so they decided to post PII of thousands of people on the internet. Who put them in the role of deciding who wins and who loses?
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Panetta: Urgency Needed to Defend Against Cyber Attacks
June 15, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“I'm very concerned at the potential in cyber to be able to cripple our power grid, to be able to cripple our government systems, to be able to cripple our financial systems. It would virtually paralyze this country. And as far as I'm concerned, that represents the potential for another Pearl Harbor… using cyber"...
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LulzSec Reborn vs Twitter and OAuth Security Issues
June 13, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The third-party authentication process implements the open standard for authorization, or OAuth, that allows users to share private resources stored on one site with another. The hack raises a serious question regarding the security level ensured by third-party authentication processes...
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POS Skimming: Bad News for Banks and Merchants
June 12, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
EFTPOS skimming — which stands for “electronic funds transfers at the point of sale” — involves either replacing the self-swipe point of sale terminals at cash registers with devices that record credit and debit card data, or remotely hacking a retailer’s POS server...
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Iran Fingers US Hackers in Oil Ministry Attacks
June 12, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Two American IPs were identified in the (cyber) attack against the oil ministry... The nature of the attack and the identity of the attackers have been discovered, but we cannot publicize it since we are still working on the case..."
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Analysis of Passwords Dumped from LinkedIn
June 11, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
People put a lot of personal information on LinkedIn - their education and job experience, along with the groups that they belong to - treasure trove of information to Social Engineers. Of all the online social sites, LinkedIn users should really choose a long complex password to secure their account...
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LinkedIn Failed to Meet Standards or Better Standards are Needed
June 10, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
LinkedIn doesn't have a CSO or CISO, which for a publicly traded company communicates that security is not a priority. Considering they still don't know how this breach occurred and the minimal attention payed to password security, I can't help but wonder how secure the credit card information is...
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Securing the Virtual Environment: How to Defend Against Attack
June 06, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
One of the selling points around virtualization is its perceived added level of security. But virtualization, like any other piece of software can be implemented incorrectly, and itself have flaws. To secure virtualization effectively, one needs to understand how adversaries will attack an environment...
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Google's Worst Security Idea Ever
June 06, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Google announced that it will notify a subset of its Gmail customers if they're the victim of a State-sponsored attack. Google's advice is FUD-inducing for people who aren't targets and insufficient for those who are. I have to wonder what Google was thinking when it created this awful program...
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LinkedIn Hacked: Change Your Password
June 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Reports indicate that as many as 6.4 million passwords have been compromised. Though the passwords are in encrypted form, reports indicate that they are being cracked at a rapid rate, with somewhere near 300,000 passwords already revealed, putting those LinkedIn members' accounts at risk...
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Warner Bros, China Telecom and US Navy Hacks
June 05, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
It seems that the company was aware of the principal vulnerabilities in their systems, and lack of patching opened the way to the exploit. The hackers discovered in the Warner Bros network a presentation, prepared by the Technical Operations department, for a security audit...
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Plan X: Developing US Cyber Warfare Capabilities
June 04, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Plan X, launched by DARPA, comes at a crucial moment in which the strategic importance of the garrison in cyberspace has become a prerequisite. We have crossed the threshold of a new era, one where we will fight wars with bits instead bullets, one in which the hackers are a new generation of soldier...
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