Responding to jihadists’ move into social networking, U.S. Central Command is setting up cyber-stings, masking its soldiers’ IP addresses and creating deceptive online profiles in the hope of luring out the next Irhabi 007. It’s using anonymity software purchased commercially from a California-based security firm, Ntrepid, to disguise its new online activity. Never mind Googling a couple of... Read More
A vector for attack, targeting people on social media sites with drive by browser attacks...... Read More
The exploit (which has been around since 2002) affects millions of websites that use AES encryption functions built into Microsoft's ASP.NET software to protect the integrity of cookies during user sessions.... Read More
Fresh off their even larger purchase of cloud storage company 3par, HP is back on a buying spree. They now have TippingPoint (from the 3Com deal), Fortify, and ArcSight. Quite a security juggernaut if they can make the pieces all fit and play together nicely.... Read More
The virus may have ties to a Libyan hacker who goes by the handle "iraq_resistance."
It's somewhat baffling that this type of virus is still such a rampant problem. What this really underscores is just how bad even basic security policies are at even large corporations. Beyond anti-virus, heuristics and firewalls, this attack has ultimately spread as fast as it has be... Read More
Several Virginia state agencies continue to experience problems with data access due to an outage related to problems in a storage-area network (SAN) that began last week in a data center run by outsourcer Northrop Grumman.... Read More
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