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Malware in the Office, in the Sky and on the Phone

October 11, 2011

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and various federal agencies are ringing it in with a couple of slaps to the head and a kick or two to the shins. First, the Government Accountability Office issued a report that stated 24 major...

Facebook Enlists Websense for Neighborhood Watch

October 4, 2011

Facebook, long a darling of cybercriminals looking to lure in unsuspecting cybersocializers, has partnered with content security vendor Websense to help protect members from links that lead to malware and malicious sites. That may prove good news to corporations, where many IT managers consider empl...

The Pentagon, Contractors and Hackers: Who Protects the Protectors?

September 27, 2011

The United States Department of Defense is reportedly extending its Defense Industrial Base Cyber Pilot program, first announced by deputy defense secretary William Lynn in June, to defense contractors. Under this program, the DoD, together with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will share c...

Malware Munches on Mitsubishi, and Certificates Can Lie

September 20, 2011

In the wake of repeated hacker attacks on defense contractors in the United States comes news that the systems of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan's biggest defense contractor, have been breached. Mitsubishi's submarine, missile and nuclear power plant component factories were reportedly targeted ...

The Swift Erosion of Online Trust

September 13, 2011

The break-in and theft of security certificates from a Dutch authority brought home, once again, how vulnerable Web browsers can be to hackers pretending to be who they're not. The authority, DigiNotar, is one of many that issue security certificates for websites. The digital certificates tell a br...

Scotland Yard Tightens the Pincers on Anonymous

September 6, 2011

It's been another wild and crazy week for the security community. Scotland Yard arrested two suspected members of Anonymous and LulzSec Thursday. Meanwhile, the major players in the browser market -- Google, Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation -- have chopped Dutch certificate DigiNotar off at the ...

The Apache Web Server's Not-So-Secret Weakness

August 30, 2011

If you thought the hacks by Anonymous and AntiSec were bad, boy, are you in for a revelation. This past week brings news that the Apache Web server -- the one that powers the majority of the Internet and most websites -- has a vulnerability that can be exploited with relatively little effort. The Ap...

Hacker Smack Talk Escalates

August 23, 2011

This past week saw considerable hacker activity: AntiSec released to the Internet 1 GB worth of emails and documents stolen from the account of VanGuard Defense Industries SVP Richard Garcia. A related hacker community, Anonymous, hacked into the servers of the BART Police Officers' Association. Ano...

Reining In Mobile Security Mayhem

August 16, 2011

Two papers on mobile security were presented at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium, held in San Francisco recently. Both touch on mobile security, a topic that's become increasingly hot lately as security vendors warn that this may well be the year of the mobile hack. Other security issues include t...

Half-Pint Hackers and Rats in the Walls

August 9, 2011

It's been a mighty interesting week in security. Kids learned about cryptography and received a visit from federal authorities at a special session at DefCon, McAfee is duking it out with other security vendors over Operation Shady Rat, facial recognition is stripping away what little is left of our...

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