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Top United States Air Force officials announced Thursday they are considering putting the military branch's Cyber Command program on hold. The Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force have considered delaying current activity and development for the Air Force Cyber Command in order to conduct a...
Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday security update was a whopper. The software maker released 11 fixes for 26 vulnerabilities, six of which are critical. The remainder were classified as important. The batch of patches was the largest security update from the software company in two years. While 26 vu...
The timing is suspicious: Just as Russian tanks began their physical assaults on Georgia's armies, that country's civilian communications infrastructure started coming under attack in cyberspace. Yet there is no direct evidence that ties this Internet warfare to the Russian government, and it may st...
An attempt to stop a group of MIT computer engineers from exposing a security flaw in Boston's transportation system may be backfiring. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority filed a suit to prevent the students from discussing their findings at Defcon 16, an annual hackers' conference takin...
The 2008 Summer Olympics kicked off in Beijing Friday, and this year's Summer Games will serve up highlights outside of athletic prowess and national pride. China's hosting of this year's Games has made them a flash point for a wide range of issues having to do with China and international relations...
A trio of French journalists from Global Security Magazine were reportedly kicked out of the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas for targeting fellow reporters in the press room with a WiFi hack. The offending journalists/hackers may have used a network-sniffing tool called "Cain" to capture ...
Dan Kaminsky, the security researcher who first sounded the alarm that the entire Internet was in grave danger due to a widespread vulnerability, has revealed in front of a packed audience at the Black Hat security conference the details behind the initial subterfuge -- and potential problems that c...
Microsoft will begin sharing technical details with security partners about vulnerabilities addressed in its monthly security updates, known as "Patch Tuesdays," the company announced Tuesday. The move, according to the company, was prompted by a growing but undesirable trend associated with Patch T...
It's been an interesting week. As if to prove the point of last week's column, Steve Jobs used his impressive skills to trick a New York Times reporter he didn't like into giving him a clean bill of health. This was brilliantly done, and there are some real lessons here that dovetail with last week'...
The British House of Lords has decided to extradite Gary McKinnon, a British citizen who hacked his way into several U.S. military, defense and NASA computers, to the United States to stand trial. McKinnon has been fighting extradition since the discovery in 2002 that he was the one who broke into t...
Computer forensics gave Michael Fiola his life back. Fiola is the former investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents who found himself summarily dismissed after an IT check uncovered pornographic images of children on his laptop's hard drive. Criminal charges followed. It ...
A significant domain name system flaw first spotted by Dan Kaminsky, IOActive director of penetration testing, is now out in the wild, and unfortunately for Internet users, it's the kind of danger that isn't easily seen. Imagine you're heading home from work, and you arrive at what appears to be you...
We're facing a Web security gap. The Web has become the primary source of infections in enterprises, surpassing e-mail. Although most enterprises do some form of URL filtering on their Web traffic, it's proven to not be an adequate security solution alone. Only 15 percent of organizations are perfor...
Usually, it's a mayor who hands out the key to his or her city to residents deserving special recognition. In San Francisco's case, it was Mayor Gavin Newsom who took back the key to his city's computer network from the man who held it hostage for more than a week. The only positive recognition syst...
Details about the massive Domain Name System flaw revealed less than two weeks ago were made public on the Internet Monday. Halvar Flake, a reverse engineering expert, posted a hypothetical theory about the vulnerability on his blog. A few hours later, a researcher at Matasano Security who knew the ...
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