Beijing hosts cyber-security conference |
- Beijing hosts cyber-security conference
- Location-based quantum crypto now possible, boffins say
- Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls
- Commerce Department Seeks Advice On Cybersecurity
- DHS quietly dispatching teams to test power plant cybersecurity
- Private Facebook Data Becomes Big Business
- Police bust e-crime gang for online bank thefts
- [HITB-Ann] Reminder: HITB2010 Malaysia Call for Papers Closing August 9th
- Emirates to block most BlackBerry services
- Security Specialists Support Cyberwarfare
- Botnet with 60GB of stolen data cracked wide open
- Former NSA, CIA Director Says Intelligence-Gathering Isn't Cyberwar
- [Dataloss Weekly Summary] Week of Sunday, July 25, 2010
- Microsoft sticks to plan, denies emergency patch for XP SP2
- How to Steal Corporate Secrets in 20 Minutes: Ask
| Beijing hosts cyber-security conference Posted: InfoSec News: Beijing hosts cyber-security conference: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-08/04/c_13429064.htm By Wang Guanqun English.news.cn 2010-08-04 BEIJING -- Top cyber-security analysts are gathering in the Chinese capital for a summit to boost security in the sector, amid the increasing threat of computer hacking worldwide. [...] |
| Location-based quantum crypto now possible, boffins say Posted: InfoSec News: Location-based quantum crypto now possible, boffins say: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/03/location_based_crypto_breakthru/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 3rd August 2010 Researchers say they have devised a foolproof way to encrypt messages that can be unlocked only by a recipient physically located in a [...] |
| Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls Posted: InfoSec News: Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/intercepting-cell-phone-calls/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com July 31, 2010 LAS VEGAS -- A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his [...] |
| Commerce Department Seeks Advice On Cybersecurity Posted: InfoSec News: Commerce Department Seeks Advice On Cybersecurity: http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500291 By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek August 4, 2010 The Department of Commerce is looking for advice from businesses, academics and even the general public about how to maintain [...] |
| DHS quietly dispatching teams to test power plant cybersecurity Posted: InfoSec News: DHS quietly dispatching teams to test power plant cybersecurity: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180152/DHS_quietly_dispatching_teams_to_test_power_plant_cybersecurity By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld August 4, 2010 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly creating specialized teams of experts to test industrial control systems at U. [...] |
| Private Facebook Data Becomes Big Business Posted: InfoSec News: Private Facebook Data Becomes Big Business: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/202285/private_facebook_data_becomes_big_business.html By Tony Bradley PC World July 30, 2010 When a security researcher made personal profile information of more than 170 million Facebook users available to the public on BitTorrent--a [...] |
| Police bust e-crime gang for online bank thefts Posted: InfoSec News: Police bust e-crime gang for online bank thefts: http://news.techworld.com/security/3234225/police-bust-e-crime-gang-for-online-bank-thefts/ By John E Dunn Techworld 04 August 10 UK and Irish police have today swooped on an international e-crime gang accused of attempting to steal money from up to 20,000 online bank [...] |
| [HITB-Ann] Reminder: HITB2010 Malaysia Call for Papers Closing August 9th Posted: InfoSec News: [HITB-Ann] Reminder: HITB2010 Malaysia Call for Papers Closing August 9th: Forwarded from: Hafez Kamal <aphesz (at) hackinthebox.org> This is a reminder that the Call for Papers for Asia's largest network security event, HITBSecConf2010 - Malaysia is closing on the 9th of August! This will be a QUAD TRACK conference featuring 2 dedicated tracks [...] |
| Emirates to block most BlackBerry services Posted: InfoSec News: Emirates to block most BlackBerry services: http://fcw.com/articles/2010/08/03/united-arab-emirates-block-blackberry.aspx By Henry Kenyon FCW.com August 03, 2010 The United Arab Emirates will soon suspend most functions for BlackBerry mobile phones, in a dispute over access to the smart phone's communications. [...] |
| Security Specialists Support Cyberwarfare Posted: InfoSec News: Security Specialists Support Cyberwarfare: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500187 By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek August 3, 2010 "Nuke 'em." That's the surprising -- albeit paraphrased -- finding of a recent survey conducted by Sophos, asking information security aficionados for their perspective on so-called cyberwarfare, and whether or not they think nation states have a right to spy on or attack each other online. The survey results were detailed by Sophos Tuesday in a report outlining information security trends for the first half of 2010. Interestingly, nearly two-thirds of the more than 1,000 people surveyed In addition, 49% of respondents think that "crippling denial of service attacks against another country's communication or financial websites" is okay during wartime, and 7% think it's acceptable during peacetime, too. Furthermore, 9% say their country should be able to hack into foreign companies and spy -- for economic advantage -- during peacetime, jumping to 32% during wartime. [...] |
| Botnet with 60GB of stolen data cracked wide open Posted: InfoSec News: Botnet with 60GB of stolen data cracked wide open: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/02/mumba_botnet_infiltrated/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 2nd August 2010 Researchers have cracked open a botnet that amassed more than 60GB of passwords and other stolen data, even as it cloaked itself using a [...] |
| Former NSA, CIA Director Says Intelligence-Gathering Isn't Cyberwar Posted: InfoSec News: Former NSA, CIA Director Says Intelligence-Gathering Isn't Cyberwar: http://www.darkreading.com/security/cybercrime/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226400063 By Tim Wilson DarkReading July 30, 2010 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Black Hat USA 2010 -- There's a difference between the gathering of foreign intelligence -- the spy game -- and outright [...] |
| [Dataloss Weekly Summary] Week of Sunday, July 25, 2010 Posted: InfoSec News: [Dataloss Weekly Summary] Week of Sunday, July 25, 2010: ======================================================================== Open Security Foundation - DataLossDB Weekly Summary Week of Sunday, July 25, 2010 6 Incidents Added. ======================================================================== [...] |
| Microsoft sticks to plan, denies emergency patch for XP SP2 Posted: InfoSec News: Microsoft sticks to plan, denies emergency patch for XP SP2: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180107/Microsoft_sticks_to_plan_denies_emergency_patch_for_XP_SP2 By Gregg Keizer Computerworld August 3, 2010 Although some had hoped that Microsoft would violate its own patching policy, the company yesterday stuck to its guns and declined to provide [...] |
| How to Steal Corporate Secrets in 20 Minutes: Ask Posted: InfoSec News: How to Steal Corporate Secrets in 20 Minutes: Ask: http://www.csoonline.com/article/601615/how-to-steal-corporate-secrets-in-20-minutes-ask By Robert McMillan IDG News Service July 30, 2010 A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social [...] |
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