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Proposed cybersecurity bill to pressure DHS
The legislation would hold the Department of Homeland Security responsible for investigating cyber attacks and for shoring up its network security. 2008-05-09 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment India, Belgium warn of Chinese attacks Two more countries join the growing list of nations concerned with attacks from China that target their systems over the Internet. 2008-05-08 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Vietnamese pack infects Firefox users Open-source software maker Mozilla warns users that the Vietnamese version of its browser includes a script that can be used to serve ads and potentially malicious code. 2008-05-08 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Senators quizz gov't on cybersecurity initiative In a bipartisan letter to the Department of Homeland Security, two members of a Senate committee ask administration officials to clarify the nature of Bush's cybersecurity initiative. 2008-05-07 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Study: Security pros look to wireless, biometrics Companies plan to invest in wireless security and biometric technologies over the next year and increasingly view continuing education as a necessity, a survey finds. 2008-05-06 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Patch paper redux: Move along please Security researchers find the recent paper on automated patch-based exploit generation interesting, but disagree with its conclusions. 2008-04-30 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment German intel agency blasted for cyber espionage Eight months after the nation's chancellor accused China of information attacks, Germany finds itself in the spotlight over planting programs to spy on other countries' officials. 2008-04-29 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Experts warn over SQL injection attacks Attackers have exploited common vulnerabilities to leave behind code on thousands of sites, redirecting visitors to servers that host malicious downloads. 2008-04-28 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment FBI seeks law forcing ISPs to retain data The United States' top cop tells a Congressional committee that law enforcement would benefit from a longer data-retention period. 2008-04-25 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft: Vulnerabilities down, threats up The software giant's security intelligence report for 2007 finds that the number of flaws disclosed sank for the year, while the amount of malicious code detected jumped 40 percent. 2008-04-22 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Report: China's botnet problems grows The annual report for the China's Computer Emergency Response Team flags surreptitious software installed by Trojan horses as the country's largest network threat. 2008-04-21 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Passwords, but not personal info, better protected A survey finds significantly fewer people gave up passwords to pollsters, but almost two-thirds of those queried parted with personal information. 2008-04-17 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment Group releases credit-card software standard The PCI Security Standards Council announces an updated version of its security standards for applications that process credit-card transactions. 2008-04-16 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Online game code posted to torrents A hacker claims that the source code to the sci-fi role-playing game EVE Online was leaked; the developer says its more likely that he reversed engineered the code. 2008-04-15 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Congress, DHS battle over domestic spy sats Democratic Congressional leaders criticize plans by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to use domestic spy satellite imagery before resolving thorny privacy and civil-liberties issues. 2008-04-15 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment U.S. still worries over hacker havens In cybercrime prosecutions, attempts to follow the money run afoul of nations with lax rules. 2008-04-11 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Researchers tell voting firms, time for a truce Hackers finding flaws, vendors reacting with threats: The relationships between security researchers and voting machine makers resemble the early days of the PC industry. 2008-04-10 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment Adobe upgrades Flash Player The software company hardens the security of its ubiquitous Web media technology, fixing some serious flaws. 2008-04-09 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft patches, pushes Internet trust The software titan announces an initiative that aims to find ways to make the Internet safer for consumers on the same day it releases eight patches for its software. 2008-04-08 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Stolen hardware basis for most breaches While the number of unique variants of malicious software more than quadrupled in 2007, lost laptops and storage devices were the most common cause of a data breaches, a report finds. 2008-04-08 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment FBI: Cybercrime racks up more profits Damages from online fraud jumped more than 20 percent, according to the latest data from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2008-04-04 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Apple patches QuickTime for Mac, Windows The consumer technology company patches its multimedia player, fixing 11 security flaws that could allow maliciously-created movie files to compromise a users' system. 2008-04-03 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Europe asks ISPs to help battle cybercrime At a Council of Europe conference on cybercrime, Estonia and other countries push for more cooperation from Internet service providers to combat online attacks. 2008-04-02 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Flashing-image attack targets epileptics Vandals seed an epilepsy-community forum with an attack that redirects visitors to a site with a flashing image, triggering seizures in some victims. 2008-03-31 Read more ... | 9 Comment(s) | Post Comment Researchers dive into memory dumps Armed with a USB thumb drive or an iPod, an attacker can grab passwords from the physical memory of untended computers. 2008-03-31 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Mac OS X first to fall A vulnerability in the Safari browser allows a security researcher to claim a $10,000 prize and the MacBook Air that he compromised. 2008-03-27 Read more ... | 7 Comment(s) | Post Comment Laptops wait for attackers in hacking contest With a $20k bounty on the line, security researchers fail to step up to compromise any of the three laptops. 2008-03-27 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft warns of targeted Word attack The software giant acknowledges that some customers have reported attacks that use Word and a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft's Jet database engine. 2008-03-24 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Entrepreneur to head U.S. cybersecurity center The Department of Homeland Security picks Rod Beckström -- a risk-software entrepreneur, author and global activist -- to lead the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC). 2008-03-21 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Hannaford sued over data breach The grocery store chain faces at least two lawsuits filed in the wake of its announcement that millions of credit- and debit-card numbers were stolen by data thieves. 2008-03-20 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment |
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