Tyler – an overview, and interview with Anonymous
Tyler is touted as ‘WikiLeaks on steroids.’ The current site (codenametyler.org) is unimpressive – so Infosecurity reached out to Anonymous for an update on its development.
Author: CySecBot
Chinese national pleads guilty to role in $100 million software piracy scheme
Xiang Li yesterday pleaded guilty to two federal charges relating to the sale of ‘cracked’ sophisticated software sometimes at less than 1/1000th of its retail price. Sentencing is scheduled for May 3.
John McAfee claims Belize is helping terrorists enter the US
Security pioneer John McAfee is back in the headlines with a claim that he organized a shadowy group of personal espionage operatives and marshaled keylogging spyware to collect data on top government officials and other powerful people in his adopted …
John McAfee claims Belize is helping terrorists enter the US
Security pioneer John McAfee is back in the headlines with a claim that he organized a shadowy group of personal espionage operatives and marshaled keylogging spyware to collect data on top government officials and other powerful people in his adopted …
TURKTRUST: No harm from fake digital certificates
In the wake of the revelation that browser vendors Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have blocked two faulty SSL certificates generated by Turkish Certificate Authority third-party TURKTRUST, the company has responded that there was no attack, fraud or oth…
Julian Assange taken into custody hoax – just one of many
A report in IndyMedia UK on 4 January 2013 claimed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had been arrested by Scotland Yard officers while visiting a private medical clinic close to the Ecuadorian embassy. It was a hoax.
Microsoft, Mozilla and Google block fake Google digital certificates
A new active attack using phony Google digital certificates accidentally issued by a Turkish certificate authority (CA) known as TURKTRUST is making the rounds, affecting Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer users.
The lessons of Shamoon and Stuxnet ignored: US ICS still vulnerable in the same way
The ICS-CERT Monthly Monitor for the last quarter of 2012 provides news and alerts for industrial control systems and infrastructure companies – and describes two particular attacks on a power generation facility and an electric utility.
Most Friendly Tricks For Your iPhone
This is a guest post by Claudia.Survey Says There are a Lot More iPhone Users Now in India: The latest gadget to strike human race is iPhones. IPhones are common mobile phones to be used by even the labour class people outside India and is a fast …
Poor disclosure means poor security standards in Japan
The ‘lack of public disclosure reflects lack of government-wide standards’ warns the Daily Yomiuri. It is, it suggests, symptomatic of a wider malaise in Japan’s attitude towards cyber defense.