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Researcher calls for peer review
Partial disclosure prompts too many questions in the press and amongst researcher, and would benefit from independent evaluation, says flaw finder Dan Kaminsky. 2008-10-06 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Report claims surveillance of Chinese messaging A Chinese messaging and voice-over-IP client logs chat conversations based on certain keywords and other criteria, a security researcher claims. 2008-10-03 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Second bill tackles laptop border searches Three U.S. lawmakers propose a law to limit the searches of laptops or other electronic devices to cases where customs agents have reasonable suspicion of illegal activity. 2008-10-02 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment TCP flaws allow deadly DoS attacks, finders say Two security researchers claim that flaws in the network stacks used by most operating systems could allow attackers to send a low-bandwidth denial-of-service attack that could leave victims' systems unresponsive. 2008-10-02 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Washington AG files spyware lawsuits The Attorney General of Washington files, with the help of Microsoft, its seventh lawsuit against a purveyor of misleading spyware. 2008-09-30 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial The 20-year-old student that allegedly hacked a college's e-mail system refuses to agree to sanctions, quit school and awaits his trial on computer-intrusion charges, according to a local news report. 2008-09-29 Read more ... | 6 Comment(s) | Post Comment Apple, Cisco fix serious security flaws The consumer technology maker pushes out a large patch for Java on Mac OS X, while Cisco publishes a dozen updates to fix serious issues in its networking hardware. 2008-09-25 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment U.S., China lead world in botnet attacks Government agencies, companies and individuals in the United States need to look to the security of their own systems, if they want to halt the botnet threat, a report states. 2008-09-24 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment McAfee snaps up Secure Computing The security firm announces that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy network security vendor Secure Computing in a cash transaction valued at $465 million. 2008-09-22 Read more ... | 4 Comment(s) | Post Comment Two-thirds of firms hit by cybercrime The Department of Justice releases survey data from 2005, finding that telecommunications companies and computer-system design businesses were hardest hit by online attacks. 2008-09-22 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Palin e-mail intruder left digital trail One screenshot left by the attacker shows enough detail to likely foil any anonymization, while law enforcement authorities investigate a trail pointing to the son of a Democratic lawmaker. 2008-09-19 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment EFF files suit against NSA, President The Electronic Frontier Foundation sues the National Security Agency, President George W. Bush and others on behalf of AT&T customers, requesting that the courts stop the "unconstitutional" surveillance. 2008-09-18 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment "Anonymous" hackers expose Palin's e-mail Political hacktivists claiming to belong to the grassroots anti-Scientology movement Anonymous appear to have compromised the private e-mail account of Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. 2008-09-17 Read more ... | 6 Comment(s) | Post Comment Bill seeks to document laptop border searches A lawmaker introduces legislation that would force the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to disclose its procedures for searching computers and devices at the border. 2008-09-17 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft to release secure coding model The software giant plans to allow other companies to use its model for securely developing software and recommend consultants who are knowledgeable about its practices. 2008-09-16 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment Student faces charges for hack-and-tell A 20-year-old college student faces charges after he allegedly broke into his school's network and sent network administrators a 16-page report on the security issues he discovered. 2008-09-15 Read more ... | 16 Comment(s) | Post Comment Hackers defaced collider site, say reports A group of online vandals compromise the security of a server at the Large Hadron Collider, putting up a Web page mocking the site's security but not the experiment, according to U.K. news reports. 2008-09-12 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Court protects cell-phone location records A federal judge rules that information on which base stations a cell-phone customers uses is protecting information requiring a search warrant. 2008-09-11 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment Apple patches QuickTime, iTunes and iPods The consumer technology maker fixes at least 18 security flaws in its multimedia software and iPod Touch media player on the same day as Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. 2008-09-10 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft plugs five holes in graphics code The software giant releases four patches, closing eight serious flaws including a handful of critical flaws in its widely used graphics device interface library. 2008-09-09 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment CIS looks to community for security metrics The Center for Internet Security aims to develop eight categories of measurement to help companies track their progress in locking down their networks. 2008-09-09 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment NebuAd, Phorm delay ad trials The two companies, whose controversial ad technology uses data on consumers gathered from ISPs, delay their plans following privacy outcry. 2008-09-05 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment South Korea claims North sent spyware In the latest case of cyber espionage, South Korea reportedly accuses its northern rival of sending spyware to infect the computers of military officers. 2008-09-04 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment Bank of NY Mellon breaches keep growing Connecticut officials say that two thefts of the financial institution's backup tapes affect more than 12 million consumers, tripling an earlier estimate. 2008-09-03 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Google unveils open-source browser The search giant announces it will release an open-source browser, written from the ground up to run faster, work better with the Web and better secure users' data. 2008-09-02 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment FISA court denies access to wiretap documents The panel of judges that certifies wiretap requests for intelligence and anti-terrorism missions rules, for the second time, that its deliberations are secret. 2008-09-01 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment "One-Character Patch" for DNS? Not so fast Changing a single character in domain-name service (DNS) software could make cache-poisoning attacks harder, but it still leaves problems. 2008-08-29 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment U.S. to deploy DNS Security in two years The government issues a memo calling for all major agencies to adopt DNSSEC by December 2009, at which point the top-level .gov domain will transition as well. 2008-08-28 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Denial, hype cloud report of Best Western breach Did Russian cybercriminals make off with sensitive data on the hotel chain's 8 million customers? The company says, "Nyet." 2008-08-26 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Search hacker exposes Olympic age scandal A dedicated security blogger finds evidence on the Internet, allegedly showing that two Chinese gold-medal gymnasts were too young to compete. The International Olympic Committee opens, and then promptly closes, an investigation. 2008-08-25 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment |
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