Yesterday we reported that the German Pirate Party had been ‘accidentally’ blocked by an automatic content filtering system used by many German schools. And yesterday the Open Rights Group and the LSE Media Policy Unit published a new report: Mobile In…
South Carolina county takes nine month to notify thousands of data breach victims
Officials with York County, South Carolina, took nine months to notify close to 17,000 job applicants and vendors that their social security numbers were exposed by an intrusion into a web application server.
Mozilla’s objection to IE-only Windows on ARM: a major row in the making
Windows is not Apple’s iOS, says Mozilla’s top lawyer after the organization complained that Firefox and other browsers would be excluded from Windows RT running on ARM systems.
BeyondTrust acquires vulnerability management company eEye Digital Security
BeyondTrust, a company that provides privilege delegation and authorization systems with its PowerBroker suite of products, has acquired eEye Digital Security, developer of the Blink and Retina vulnerability management tools.
Drowning in data: Security professionals look to metrics for a lifeline
Security professionals are experiencing an information overload and want better metrics to analyze the data so they can take action, according to a survey conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of RedSeal Networks.
K-State receives Air Force contract to examine network “moving target” defense
Kansas State University (KSU) has received a five-year, $1 million US Air Force (USAF) contract to study “moving target” defense for networks.
DigiNinja analyzes the Twitter hack, and offers password advice to web services
Yesterday we reported that 55,000 Twitter accounts have been leaked on Pastebin. Security researchers Anders Nilsson and Robin Wood have separately analyzed the dump.
Net neutrality becomes law in The Netherlands
The net neutrality provisions approved by the Dutch Parliament last June as part of its implementation of the European telecommunications package became law yesterday.
Natural gas pipelines targeted by cyber attack
A spear-phishing campaign aimed at US natural gas pipeline companies has been underway since December of last year, according to the US Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).
Syrian activists targeted with RATs
There have been several recent examples of Syrian activists being tricked into downloading and installing remote access tools (RATs) that secretly hand control of their computers to a third party.