DARPA invites white hats to help with U.S. cyber defense

DARPA invites white hats to help with U.S. cyber defense


DARPA invites white hats to help with U.S. cyber defense

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 06:24 AM PST

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is asking the government to ramp up its cyber research funding from $120 million to $208 million for 2012, and in the coming years aims to spend a...

Review: Cybercrime and Espionage

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST

Authors: Will Gragido and John Pirc Pages: 272 Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597496138 Introduction Cybercrime and espionage are topics that I always enjoy reading about. I was primarily int...

Global phishing trends and domain name use

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:37 AM PST

A new survey by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reveals that phishing attacks perpetrated against Chinese e-commerce and banking sites soared by 44 percent in the first half of 2011. Some 70 pe...

Adobe patches Shockwave Player

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:25 AM PST

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker...

Motorola attempted to crush competitor via "Chinese spy ring" allegations

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:52 AM PST

Four years ago a software engineer that worked for Motorola was arrested by U.S. Customs agents as she was trying to board a plane heading for China. Hanjuan Jin was carrying with her over 1,000 elect...

Fake Kaspersky AV solution offered via spam emails

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 03:13 AM PST

Rogue AV software mimicking popular legitimate AV solutions is occasionally offered by cyber crooks in the hopes that the familiar name and look will entice users into buying the offered product. T...

First military-secured 3G and 4G core network

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 03:01 AM PST

Tecore Networks introduced the 4G evolution of its military-secured iCore platform, making it the world's first complete, multi-technology mobile network. By incorporating the key components of the...

Computershare insider loses USBs with stolen customer financial data

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 02:35 AM PST

Computershare, one of the largest financial market services and technology providers in the world, has filed a suit with the Massachusetts District Court against former employee Kathyann Pace who stan...

Angry Birds know where you live

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 11:46 PM PST

75% of the public may be giving away their physical location when downloading smartphone applications, according to AdaptiveMobile. 69% of smartphone users are adamant that such privacy breaches ar...

Protection against Duqu malware

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 11:36 PM PST

A new vulnerability in Windows has been recently identified and is already exploited in the wild. For now, only a handful of targeted attacks have been found. The vulnerability exists in Windows TrueT...

Firefox 8.0 brings security and stability fixes

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 11:29 PM PST

Mozilla released Firefox 8.0 that fixes several security and stability issues. Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default, as if add-on management hasn't been enough of a...

Hardware-based enterprise key management platform

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 09:27 PM PST

Escalating threats, expanding regulatory requirements, and the movement to cloud-based and virtualized infrastructures are driving the need for a more unified approach to management for multi-vendor e...

New cloud computing credential

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 09:01 PM PST

CompTIA and ITpreneurs are collaborating on a new cloud computing skills credential. The Cloud Essentials exam, scheduled for availability in December 2011, will validate knowledge and understandin...

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