When it comes to locking down enterprise infrastructure, the application layer is responsible for more than 90% of all security vulnerabilities, yet more than 80% of IT security spending continues to be at the network and endpoint layer, new research h…
Syrian Electronic Army Steps Up a Gear – Re-Directs Major Websites to its Domain
Rather than hack individual websites or Twitter accounts, SEA’s latest attack was on the MelbourneIT domain registrar. It was then able to redirect visitors to MelbourneIT’s customers – including the New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post – to an …
Password Cracker Cracks 55 Character Passwords
One of the world’s leading password crackers just got better and is now able to crack passwords of up to 55 characters in length and algorithms such as TrueCrypt 5.0+, LastPass and Samsung Android Password/PIN.
Facebook Report Discloses Number of Government Requests for User Data
Facebook has now joined other major cloud service companies with its own version of a transparency report: its first Global Government Requests Report purports to show how many government requests for user data it received in the first six months of 2013.
Molerats Hacking Campaign adds Poison Ivy to its Repertoire
Molerats is the term used for a hacking campaign orchestrated by the Gaza Hackers Team. Until now it had seemed that this group concentrated on using the XtremeRAT trojan. New research now suggests that that the group has also started using the Poison …
NSA Revealed Spying on the UN and EU Embassies
The latest revelations from Edward Snowden published by Der Spiegel and Laura Poitras, the American film maker based in Berlin and visited by David Miranda before his detention at Heathrow, shows extensive and sophisticated NSA surveillance of both the…
Twitter Scanning DMs to Help Profile its Users
A European privacy activist is warning that Twitter monitors users’ Direct Message private tweets, even to the extent of visiting URLs contained and copying the content of the web pages concerned – most likely for behavioral profiling.
Lady Gaga Sees Applause for Single, Despite ‘Hacker’ Leak
Lady Gaga is…displeased. She’s blaming “hackers” for the leak of her new single, “Applause,” ahead of its scheduled release date on August 19.
China Hit with Biggest DDoS Attack in its History
China faced the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its history over the weekend, leading to a two-to-four hour shutdown of swaths of IP addresses using .cn, China’s country code top-level domain.
The Insecure Pacemaker: FDA Issues Guidance for Wireless Medical Device Security
The concept of a hacker causing a heart attack by remotely compromising a pacemaker or shutting down an insulin pump on a diabetic is unfortunately not in the realm of science fiction, with very real vulnerabilities having been found in connected medic…