U.S. Central Command, responsible for the military’s activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and a number of other countries in that region was the victim of a hack earlier today. Centcom’s Twitter feed and You Tube channel were compromised and defaced. Twitter quickly disabled the feed but not before some charts and contact information for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN is reporting that visitors to HuffPo and several other major sites last week might have caught a virus from malware infected Advertisements. The malware only infected Windows PCs and only those running Internet Explorer 8 (does anyone really use IE any more?). Even though IE11 is the current version of IE, according to CNN, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former Microsoft Security Advisor Caspar Bowden gave a presentation at 31C3, the hacker conference in Hamburg last month, that gave the conspiracy theorists some more ammunition. An article on his presentation appears here, his slides are here, and a video of the talk is on YouTube here. A quote from the article gives you a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro, Marshall and Harlan, a law firm based outside Los Angeles, has an interesting take on software licensing. They don’t say whether they have been representing plaintiffs or defendants in software piracy lawsuits, so I don’t know if there is a bias in their blogging, but it is an interesting point of view. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]VentureBeat wrote an interesting item pointing out some of the obvious things that Target messed up. Fixing these items won’t stop every attack, but it certainly would slow the attackers down. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court recently Target missed the ball on a few things. Of course, at this point, these are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Katie Moussouris, formerly an executive at Microsoft and Symantec and now an executive at HackerOne, which as best as I can tell manages bug coordination with third parties for very large, well respected companies, tells a story about an over enthusiastic security person at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. She was tapped for secondary […]
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