HBGary breach revelations and repercussions

HBGary breach revelations and repercussions


HBGary breach revelations and repercussions

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:36 AM PST

A few days ago, the Internet group Anonymous downed security firm HBGary's website and breached its networks, downloading a serious amount of confidential information (e-mails, malware data, financial...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Django

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:32 AM PST

Vulnerabilities have been reported in Django, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and conduct script insertion and cross-site request forgery attacks, ac...

Credit score checking app triggers Trojan download

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 06:51 AM PST

The main reason people get scammed and/or their computer infected online is because they can't contain their curiosity, and that is precisely the thing on which the peddlers of a small application for...

iPhones and iPads reveal passwords regardless of passcode protection

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 05:09 AM PST

Losing your iPhone or iPad equals having your passwords compromised - even if the device is protected with a passcode. The results of an experiment conducted by Jens Heider and Matthias Boll, two r...

Van Gogh Museum fan page hit by Facebook scammers

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 05:06 AM PST

The Facebook page for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has been targeted by scammers. Messages were posted on the compromised page, including links to a version of the money-making scam "I was logg...

IBM secures mobile and instrumented devices

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 03:53 AM PST

IBM announced new initiatives to extend security to the growing number of mobile and instrumented devices beyond an organization's own four walls, such as smartphones, ATMs, retail kiosks, traffic sys...

400,000 e-mail addresses stolen in Irish job website breach

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 03:28 AM PST

Names and e-mail addresses of some 400,000 job seekers have been harvested by hackers who have breached the RecruitIreland.com site and its systems. The site has been taken offline for a while, and...

Security service for Android and Symbian

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 03:26 AM PST

The new version of F-Secure's Protection Service for Mobile (PSM 7) enables operators to offer protection and parental control for their customers' mobile devices. As more and more children, teen...

7 critical questions to ask before developing a social media policy

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 03:21 AM PST

Social media disrupts the long-standing rules of business in many ways, but crafting a social media policy is premature unless the designers of the policy answer seven critical questions first. Gar...

Immunet 3.0 introduces custom anti-malware signatures

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 12:50 AM PST

Sourcefire released Immunet 3.0 which enables users to create custom anti-malware signatures for more accurate protection against targeted attacks and offers a Cloud Recall feature, which can remediat...

Network situational awareness and retro analysis

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 12:23 AM PST

Trisul is a Linux based application that passively listens to network traffic and tracks a number of traffic metrics across all layers. It correlates these traffic metrics with raw flow data and full ...

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