Thanks to Toby for contributing to this security news bulletin! I was honoured to attend BSides London and DC4420, aka Defcon London both of which were a blast this Wednesday and an obligatory blog post will follow hopefully this evening. Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Database Security Mobile Security Privacy General Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Russian news reports that 20-year-old Ivan Kaspersky was kidnapped and his captors are demanding ransom [www.darkreading.com] [4/22/11 UPDATE: Russian media this morning are reporting that Ivan Kaspersky has …
Thanks to Shaun for contributing to this security news bulletin! Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the week: “Making connections is always easier when there’s alcohol involved” – Adam B. 😉 “Pretty much anyone can be breached at any time” – Jon Oltsik “Wonder if my Safari …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched Vulnerabilities Software updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Cloud Security Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime RSA SecurID breach began with spear phishing attack [searchsecurity.techtarget.com] The assault against RSA, the security division of EMC Corp., began with two waves of spear phishing attacks using an …
I know it is April’s 1st but I am Spanish, don’t worry! 🙂 (we have the 28th of December for those things) Thanks to Tadek, John and Brian for contributing to this weekly security news bulletin! For the technically inclined I also put together the following this week: – iptables: white-listing TCP connections to reduce …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Software Updates Business Case for Security Network Security Web Technologies Privacy General Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Comodo: two more resellers were compromised [www.h-online.com] Comodo has confirmed that two other resellers have been compromised since the ‘Comodogate’ attacks which saw an attacker generate forged certificates for login.live.com, mail.google.com, www.google.com, …
Thanks to Tadek for contributing to this security weekly news bulletin Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the week: “If Iran got some forged certificates, it’s only because they don’t have a CA of their own. It’s considerably less hassle for most countries.” – Moxie Marlinspike (Abraham’s …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched vulnerabilities Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Mobile Security Privacy General Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime The Recent RA Compromise [blogs.comodo.com] On March 15th 2011, a Comodo affiliate RA was compromised resulting in the fraudulent issue of 9 SSL certificates to sites in …
Thanks to Tadek for contributing to this weekly security news bulletin Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the week: “The media (and general community) responses on the nuke meltdown highlight human inability to contextualize risk.” – Rich Mogull “Getting a lot of enquiries lately to help orgs …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched Vulnerabilities Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Mobile Security Privacy General Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Open Letter to RSA Customers [www.rsa.com] Like any large company, EMC experiences and successfully repels multiple cyber attacks on its IT infrastructure every day. Recently, our security systems …
