NetSec

2012-01-31T06:48:00.001-08:00

National Geographic - Welcome to the NSA

2012-01-30T14:23:00.000-08:00

Hacker's Demo Shows How Easily Credit Cards Can Be Read Through Clothes And Wallets This is why I love hacker conferences.

2012-01-29T05:04:00.001-08:00

Russia Must Be Ready for Space, Cyber Wars from Mr. Grundy

2012-01-28T21:04:00.000-08:00

Hawaii and its unprecedented proposal to keep long term internet history.
Is it worth it; not a bit.

Spying for the cheap.

2012-01-27T09:54:00.001-08:00

Symantec advises customers to stop using pcAnywhere until they apply new patches.

2012-01-26T11:10:00.000-08:00

Why the Supreme Court GPS Decision in US V Jones Won't Stop Warrantless Digital Surveillance

2012-01-26T11:08:00.000-08:00

FBI releases plans to monitor social networks from Mr. Grundy

2012-01-25T05:21:00.001-08:00

Decrypting laptop doesn't count as self-incrimination, US federal judge rules - This will eventually make it's way to the SCOTUS. It will be interesting to see the outcome.

2012-01-24T18:02:00.000-08:00

New Attacks on AES!

Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES - "As our attacks are of high computational
complexity, they do not threaten the practical use of AES in any way."

2012-01-23T06:00:00.000-08:00

Anonymous Deletes CBS, Universal Sites; is Xbox Live Next?

NTT Develops 15Gbps Milliwave Transceiver Module from Sean

2012-01-22T05:56:00.001-08:00

Quantum physics enables perfectly secure cloud computing

2012-01-20T06:06:00.000-08:00

Anonymous attacks government, music industry sites in largest attack ever - from Sean

Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline from Red

2012-01-19T13:40:00.000-08:00

Infiltrate Wrap Up

Dates Announced for INFILTRATE 2013:
Web Hacking 1/7/13 - 1/9/13
(Check-in party the night of the 9th, at the rooftop bar)
Conference 1/10/13 - 1/11/13
Unethical Hacking Class 1/14/13 - 1/17/13
Masters Class 1/14/13 - 1/18/13

2012-01-16T08:09:00.000-08:00

Zappos = 24M Users Owned from Red

2012-01-14T05:31:00.000-08:00

Yet another Zombie Alert! - from Francis - Watch your brains!

2012-01-12T07:47:00.001-08:00

The next Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS) will held from August 6 to 8, 2012 in Washington, D.C. at the Embassy Suites Downtown hotel. The Call for Papers, workshops, and panels is now open; submissions are due February 20, 2012.

2012-01-09T16:55:00.001-08:00

Can you be forced by law to decrypt your computer? US v. Fricosu court case rages on

2012-01-09T16:51:00.001-08:00

New Paper - Acquisition and Analysis of Volatile Memory from Android Devices

2012-01-07T06:12:00.000-08:00

SEC Consult SA-20120104-0 :: Multiple critical vulnerabilities in Apache Struts2 - Impact = Critical

2012-01-06T06:16:00.000-08:00

Symantec use's its Facebook to confirm that source code for certain enterprise products have been leaked. Security Week Article & Facebook

2012-01-02T07:36:00.000-08:00

Antisec Hits Private Intel Firm; Millions of Docs Allegedly Lifted from Red

2011-12-16T17:22:00.001-08:00

Hacking Google for Fun and Profit

2011-12-14T19:10:00.000-08:00

PuTTY Stored Plaintext Passwords in Memory After Authentication

2011-12-14T07:01:00.000-08:00

Ettercap updated after more than seven years.

2011-12-05T06:50:00.000-08:00

Bogus Water Pump SCADA "Attack" - Contractor Logged in from a .ru address - DHS Fusion Center Publicly Shamed - More

2011-12-05T06:47:00.000-08:00

Free Crypto Class from Dan Boneh @ Stanford University Starting in January!

2011-11-30T06:27:00.000-08:00

Remotely Exploiting the Physical Layer with Packet-in-Packet Injection.

2011-11-21T05:46:00.001-08:00

DHS and FBI Investigating Attack on SCADA System at Water Utility

Attacker claims publicly the hack could be reproduced by a two-year-old, offers screenshots (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), and opines that reports of SCADAPOCALYPSE may be premature.

2011-11-17T19:40:00.000-08:00

Peter Kleissner announces defeat of Windows 8 Secure Boot to be demonstrated at MalCon.

2011-11-17T15:13:00.000-08:00

BIND 9 DoS Advisory and Patch

2011-11-17T10:10:00.000-08:00

Covertly Transferring Data Through VOIP

2011-11-15T16:43:00.000-08:00

Rethinking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Should a site's Terms of Use really have force of law?

2011-11-14T05:14:00.001-08:00

StuxNet - Part Duex

2011-10-27T08:05:00.000-07:00

2011-10-14T09:24:00.000-07:00

Survey: False sense of security plagues data centers

F5 boosts security, IP services in BIG-IP upgrade effort

2011-10-14T06:28:00.000-07:00

A giant has passed away from Tracy

2011-10-13T11:22:00.000-07:00

Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70

2011-10-12T14:17:00.000-07:00

What's in a name?

2011-10-12T13:17:00.000-07:00

Georgia Tech Cyber Security Emerging Threats Report 2011

2011-09-30T04:27:00.000-07:00

SAIC: Medical records for 4.9 million TRICARE beneficiaries were stolen.

2011-09-28T09:51:00.000-07:00

Dave Aitel on the Chilean Power Grid Outages - Richard Thieme's cogent post on counterintelligence and knowability

Hack the election

2011-09-27T17:57:00.000-07:00

Hack the election!
Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control

2011-09-27T17:23:00.000-07:00

InMotion Hosting Suffers Mass Defacement by TiGER-M@TE.

2011-09-21T07:57:00.000-07:00

2011-09-20T08:30:00.000-07:00

2011-09-16T05:34:00.001-07:00

Trojan.Mebroni flashes BIOS - from Tarik

2011-09-14T08:52:00.000-07:00

2011-09-14T04:32:00.000-07:00

2011-09-13T08:12:00.000-07:00

2011-09-12T08:31:00.000-07:00

Inside Cisco global security operations , IT guys talk, but don't walk, on data breaches , Russia's embassy in UK says hackers hit website

2011-09-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

LinuxFoundation.org and Linux.com security breach

2011-09-09T08:02:00.001-07:00

VMware, Symantec work up cloud-based single sign-on security services

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/090811-cloud-sso-250608.html

2011-09-08T13:49:00.000-07:00

Virtual Desktops on Best in Class Infrastructure - Free Steak Lunch at Ruth's Chris + Free iPad Giveaway

2011-09-08T07:43:00.001-07:00

Senators push for changes in cybercrime law

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/090711-senators-push-for-changes-in-250560.html

2011-09-07T08:03:00.001-07:00

F5 and WhiteHat Security: Assess Website Vulnerabilities and Protect Apps

http://resources.f5.com/webApp/F5LandingPageINTL?lpid=SJd5DDTf69uHTgFv3xDe%2Fm%2F4xUxK41Zi

2011-09-07T07:59:00.000-07:00

NSA Extends Label-based Security to Big Data Stores

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/239542/nsa_extends_labelbased_security_to_big_data_stores.html

Embedded Devices Pave Way For Future Car Hacking: McAfee Report

http://www.crn.com/news/security/231600868/embedded-devices-pave-way-for-future-car-hacking-mcafee-report.htm;jsessionid=u+jXngpcf3je2bFp4GjW1w**.ecappj01

2011-09-07T04:52:00.000-07:00

Threat Management Summit l Free Online Event

http://www.brighttalk.com/summit/1651

2011-09-06T08:20:00.000-07:00

DHS warns of planned Anonymous attacks

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219711/DHS_warns_of_planned_Anonymous_attacks

2011-09-05T12:51:00.000-07:00

Hacked CA DigiNotar Issued Rouge SSL Certificates for CIA, MI6, and the Mossad

2011-09-02T08:44:00.000-07:00

California updates data breach law to require more incident details

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/California-Updates-Data-Breach-Law-to-Require-More-Incident-Details-194955/

2011-09-02T08:42:00.000-07:00

Hackers, Mobile, Social Media making IT security a challenge

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Hackers-Mobile-Social-Media-Making-IT-Security-A-Challenge-223185/?kc=rss

2011-09-02T06:18:00.000-07:00

Post Memory Corruption Memory Analysis by Johnathan Brossard - Blackhat Presentation - PCMCA Tools

2011-09-01T07:24:00.000-07:00

The Linux Kernel Archives hacked
Read here to learn why the kernel code base is secure

2011-08-31T07:20:00.001-07:00

TBL Lunch & Learn - Cisco Collaboration Meets Virtualization - Virginia Beach Wednesday, September 14, 2011 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM (ET)

2011-08-30T09:56:00.000-07:00

Survey: IT pros split on allowing end users to download, install software

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/082911-bit9-survey-250188.html

2011-08-29T03:17:00.000-07:00

How cyber crime gang stole $13 million in a day

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44291945/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/how-cyber-crime-gang-stole-million-day/?gt1=43001

2011-08-26T08:16:00.000-07:00

Verizon beefs up cloud portfolio with latest acquisition

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231600152/verizon-keeps-cloud-services-flame-blazing-with-cloudswitch-acquisition.htm;jsessionid=jr7tC2NXaHMmTYHU7NYipw**.ecappj01

2011-08-26T08:14:00.000-07:00

IPv6 is already proving attractive to security hackers

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/082511-ipv6-attacks-250117.html

2011-08-26T08:12:00.000-07:00

What's new in CORE IMPACT Pro v12

http://www.coresecurity.com/content/core-impact-v12

2011-08-22T18:29:00.000-07:00

Ex-Wikileaks Deputy Daniel Domscheit-Berg Wipes Leaked Data

Wikileaks confirmed the claims on its Twitter feed, saying: "We can confirm that the DDB claimed destroyed data included a copy of the entire US no-fly list."

Wikileaks' statement went on to state that Mr Domscheit-Berg had also deleted 5 gigabytes of data relating to Bank of America, the internal communications of 20 neo-Nazi organisations and US intercept information for "over a hundred internet companies." [BBC]

Last week, Chaos Computer Club expelled Domscheit-Berg. CCC's spokeman, Andy Müller-Maguhn: "I doubt Domscheit-Berg's integrity. He is certainly quite flexible with facts."

2011-08-22T08:52:00.000-07:00

Some federal agencies have doubts about cloud security

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/technology/federal-push-for-cloud-technology-faces-skepticism.html?_r=1

2011-08-19T07:55:00.000-07:00

Kaspersky disputes McAfee's Shady Rat report

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/kaspersky-disputes-mcafees-shady-rat-report/6315

2011-08-18T12:10:00.001-07:00

Stealing ATM PIN Numbers Using a Thermal Camera Is Too Freaking Easyhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

2011-08-18T08:00:00.001-07:00

5 Most-Ignored IT Security Best Practices

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/management/231500128

2011-08-18T07:48:00.000-07:00

Research lab's Chinese-made parts raise security concerns

2011-08-18T06:34:00.000-07:00

What will that egg mcmuffin get you? Arrested if you use McDonald's wifi to hack your former employer right after using your credit card to buy it!

2011-08-15T10:24:00.001-07:00

$25 toy radio used to knock out fedshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

2011-08-10T08:13:00.000-07:00

A post on a Full Disclosure mailing list suggests that 4G and CDMA were hacked at DEFCON.

2011-08-08T10:27:00.003-07:00

AntiSec hackers dump data after hacking police websites

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080711-antisec-hackers-dump-data-after.html

2011-08-08T10:27:00.001-07:00

Intel's McAfee product leverages old chip features

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/05/us-intel-mcafee-idUSTRE7745VM20110805

2011-08-08T10:26:00.000-07:00

Microsoft praised by hacker for “spectacular” security approach

http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/05/wtf-microsoft-gets-praise-from-black-hat-hacker-for-spectacular-security-approach/

2011-08-08T10:24:00.000-07:00

Oracle, other companies "punkd" in hacking contest

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/08/us-cybersecurity-corporations-idUSTRE7762KX20110808

2011-08-06T02:11:00.000-07:00

Cisco Warranty Disc Redirects to Malware Site

2011-08-04T05:18:00.000-07:00

Governments, IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14387559

2011-08-04T05:06:00.001-07:00

Advanced persistent threats force IT to rethink security priorities

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080211-sbic-apt.html

2011-08-04T05:04:00.000-07:00

Cybercrime Cleanup Costs Spike

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/231300047

2011-08-03T06:03:00.000-07:00

NSA Recruitment at Black Hat is generating interest.

2011-08-02T12:05:00.001-07:00

Enterprises Hit With More Advanced Malware-Based Attacks

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Enterprises-Hit-With-More-Advanced-MalwareBased-Attacks-in-2011-Report-250823/?kc=rss

2011-08-02T12:04:00.000-07:00

Government hankers for hackers

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/02/us-usa-hackers-idUSTRE7710PY20110802

2011-08-02T12:02:00.000-07:00

3 Things PCI Auditors Wish They Could Tell You

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71294.html?wlc=1312293027

2011-07-28T12:26:00.000-07:00

Metasploit 4 released from Da King

2011-07-28T08:18:00.001-07:00

Lunch and Learn - Virtualization Security @ Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

2011-07-26T15:27:00.000-07:00

US-CERT Director resigns, likely over recent breach.

2011-07-25T15:46:00.000-07:00

The return of Stuxnet. Sometimes there is no substitute for a Rip & Replace.

2011-07-25T05:38:00.000-07:00

Charlie Miller finds MacBook battery security hole, plans to fill with Caulkgun - Apple's use of global default passwords is not surprising but I'm sure that the Apple Fanboys will be outraged once again anyway.

2011-07-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

The latest AntiSec victim - NATO

2011-07-18T07:47:00.000-07:00

The Grugq issues Call for Papers for Barcon - Sadly, I will not be in Vegas this year. Hopefully this is an annual event.

2011-07-15T05:43:00.001-07:00

Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years from Grundy

2011-07-12T09:15:00.001-07:00

Booz Allen Hamilton Owned? - from Sean

2011-07-07T12:36:00.000-07:00

iPad2 Jailbroken using PDF reader vulnerability - more commentary here