dgharmon writes with this excerpt from rt.com: “A pretrial hearing in the case against accused LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond this week ended with the 27-year-old Chicago man being told he could be sentenced to life in prison for compromising the compu…
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U.S. Denies Using Flame Malware To Spy On French President
CowboyRobot writes with the (not unexpected) official U.S. denial of using the Flame malware to spy on France. From the article: “That allegation was leveled at the U.S. government by unnamed French officials, according to a Tuesday report in the week…
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HTTP Strict Transport Security Becomes Internet Standard
angry tapir writes “A Web security policy mechanism that promises to make HTTPS-enabled websites more resilient to various types of attacks has been approved and released as an Internet standard — but despite support from some high-profile websi…
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Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes?
AngryDad writes “Today I received a baffling email from my hosting provider that said, ‘We have a company-wide patching freeze and we will not be releasing patches to our customers who utilize the patching portal for the months of November and Decembe…
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Hosting Provider Automatically Fixes Vulnerabilities In Customers’ Websites
An anonymous reader writes “Dutch hosting provider Antagonist announced their in-house developed technology that automatically detects and fixes vulnerabilities in their customers’ websites. The service is aimed at popular software such as WordPress, …
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Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous
Mephistophocles writes “Ever since the beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense, hackers have been working overtime to strike a blow against the Israeli government’s computer systems, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said Sunday. No fewer than 44 milli…
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New Linux Rootkit Emerges
Trailrunner7 writes “A new Linux rootkit has emerged and researchers who have analyzed its code and operation say that the malware appears to be a custom-written tool designed to inject iframes into Web sites and drive traffic to malicious sites for d…
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Two FreeBSD Project Servers Hacked
hypnosec writes “The FreeBSD project has suffered a security breach. Hackers have successfully compromised servers that were part of the infrastructure used to build third-party software packages. The Security team over at the FreeBSD project is of th…
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Skype Takes Heat for Security – Both Too Little and Too Much
Microsoft had to temporarily disable Skype’s password reset feature last week after a Russian hacker revealed a simple way to lock users out of their accounts. To hijack an account, all an attacker needed to know was an email address associated with that account. That address could be used to create a new account, which could then be used to reset the password of the original account and compromise it.
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Facebook Could Slow Down A Tiny Bit As It Starts Switching All Users To Secure HTTPS Connections
When you’re dealing with 1 billion people’s personal info, security is critical. But Facebook didn’t want to sacrifice speed. That’s why it spent the last two years making infrastructure improvements so that its transition of all its users to HTTPS which starts this week will “slow down connections only slightly.” People will be able to opt-out of HTTPS for maximum speed if that’s how they like to roll.
