The Reserve Bank of Australia has admitted that its been an ongoing target for hackers, although the nation’s central bank says no data has been lost as a result of the attacks.
VISA sued over PCI fines levied on retail company
In what is believed to be an industry first, Tennessee-based footwear and sports apparel retail chain Genesco is suing Visa over a $13 million dollar fine imposed following a data breach in 2010.
Kali Linux 1.0 Release – Moto – The Birth of Kali Linux
Kali Linux, the rising
It’s been 7 years since we released our first version of BackTrack Linux, and the ride so far has been exhilarating. When the dev team started talking about BackTrack 6 (almost a year ago), each of us put on paper a few &ld…
What’s New in Kali Linux?
Enter Kali Linux
“So, what’s the difference between BackTrack and Kali?” you might be asking. Unfortunately for us, that’s not a simple question to answer. It’s a mix between “everything” and “not much&rd…
Another Honeywell ICS vulnerability rears its head in building control
A new vulnerability, CVE-2013-0108, has been discovered in Honeywell industrial control systems (ICS), continuing the growing trend of SCADA and building control issues.
Spam back with a vengeance in February
After a fourth quarter of declining spam levels in 2012, junk emails actually almost doubled in February 2013.
Lack of privacy is not that bad, says Univ. of Chicago – you haven’t got it anyway, says Cambridge
Against a background of the EU likely to water down its privacy proposals, and Harvard university secretly searching the emails of 16 resident deans, two major universities have published two very different papers on privacy in the internet age.
Tripwire acquires nCircle
Tripwire, a Portland Ore security and compliance company, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire nCircle, a San Francisco risk and security performance management company.
China’s next-generation internet is streets ahead of the West
So says an article in the latest issue of New Scientist, commenting on a report published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society last week. The key, apparently, is China’s implementation of Source Address Validation Architecture (SAVA).
Malware developers paying $100 apiece for Google Play accounts
Dovetailing with the ever-escalating glut of Android-based mobile malware, it turns out that a black market for Android developer accounts has sprung up. Google Play accounts are apparently going for $100 a pop in the cyber-underground.