There are two main factions within Anonymous: the anarchist and the hacktivist. One believes in no rules; the other takes a moral view of its responsibility to society. One of them handed over the Red Sky hacker.
Cybersecurity Act goes down to defeat in Senate
The Senate failed on Thursday to pass the Cybersecurity Act (S 3414) despite months of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans and significant modifications of the legislation.
Agency drags feet on removing social security numbers from Medicare cards
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is delaying the removal of social security numbers (SSNs) from Medicare cards, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) told a House panel this week.
Sensitive court documents ‘recycled’ in public bin
Hundreds of Madison County (Illinois) court documents containing personal information on victims involved in protection order cases were recently left in a public recycling bin behind the county’s Wood River facilities.
Chrome 21 fixes 15 security holes
Google has shipped version 21 of its Chrome browser, fixing 15 bugs in the process.
US federal cybersecurity incidents jumped 20% last year
Cybersecurity incidents involving US federal computer systems increased 20% last year, according to statistics released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
California prison workers settle data breach lawsuit
Employees at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California have reached a settlement with the state over allegations that their personnel information was exposed to prison inmates.
16 code defects uncovered for open source code bases
Software testing firm Coverity has uncovered 16 code defects, similar to a defect recently found in the MySQL database server, in nine different open source code bases, including Nmap, OpenBabble, and Ncbi-tools.
PPTP traffic should be considered unencrypted
This is the view of Moxie Marlinspike, who along with David Hulton first presented his method for cracking Microsoft’s CHAPv2 at Defcon, and has now described the process on CloudCracker.
Remove Unwanted Files With CCleaner
This is a guest post by Vincent Ammirato.Your personal computer has a lot more junk in it, than what is visible to the eye. To ensure this junk does not hinder the performance of your PC you must do away with it on an on-going basis. This will not…