An anonymous reader writes “On Thursday, Anonymous reported that it took down close to 40 Israeli government and security establishment websites, although the single website that they presented as having been attacked belonged to a security and cleani…
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FreeBSD Project Discloses Security Breach Via Stolen SSH Key
An anonymous reader writes “Following recent compromises of the Linux kernel.org and Sourceforge, the FreeBSD Project is now reporting that several machines have been broken into. After a brief outage, ftp.FreeBSD.org and other services appear to be b…
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Will It Take a ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ To Break Congressional Deadlock?
Hugh Pickens writes “For years lawmakers had heard warnings about holes in corporate and government systems that imperil U.S. economic and national security. Now Ward Carroll writes that in the face of what most experts label as a potential ‘Cyber Pea…
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High Security Animal Disease Lab Faces Uncertain Future
Dupple writes in with a story about the uncertain future of a proposed bio lab in the heart of cattle country. “Plans to build one of the world’s most secure laboratories in the heart of rural America have run into difficulties. The National Bio and A…
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House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA’s "Scanner Shuffle"
OverTheGeicoE writes “The Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security held a hearing on TSA’s recent decision to move X-ray body scanners from major airports to smaller ones, which the subcommittee refers to as a ‘Scanner Shuffle.’ John …
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6 ways big data is helping reinvent enterprise security
What’s true in the rest of the world is true for security software, as well: more data means more intelligence. Thanks to the emergence of new techniques for storing, collecting and analyzing data, there’s a new wave of security companies looking smarter than ever.
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ArmorHub’s Web Security Service Scans For Vulnerabilities & Malware, Works Great For Startups As Well As Your Dad
ArmorHub is today launching a web security service targeting startups, small-to-medium sized businesses, and most importantly, the layperson who knows that website security is something to be concerned about, but doesn’t know how to monitor their site or what to do if an issue is found. The company is being bootstrapped by Evan Beard, previously the founder and CEO of eTacts, which sold to Salesforce in 2010, and Kendall Dabaghi, whose background includes two years at McKinsey focused on the big data challenges among the Fortune 500 I.T. companies.
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LTE: fast, global, silenced by a $650 radio jammer
Oh gosh, we haven’t been so panicked since our phones were hypothetically possessed by demons. And come to think of it, this is theoretically far, far worse. A research group at Virginia Tech is claiming that, due to the particular way 4G data is tra…
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Hacker Grabs 150k Adobe User Accounts Via SQL Injection
CowboyRobot writes “Adobe today confirmed that one of its databases has been breached by a hacker and that it had temporarily taken offline the affected Connectusers.com website. The hacker, who also goes by Adam Hima, told Dark Reading that the serve…
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Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered
another random user writes with news of a vulnerability in the Skype password reset tool “All you need to do is register a new account using that email address, and even though that address is already used (and the registration process does tell you t…
