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Security researcher Henry Hoggard recently discovered a cross site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Twitter’s “add a mobile device” feature, giving him the ability to read direct messages and Tweet from any account.
An audit of the Department of Energy has shown that 29 new weaknesses emerged on the agency’s networks this year in addition to 10 found in an 2012 audit that have yet to be remediated.
Win/32.Upatre compromises host machines through malicious email attachments and, once installed, moves to download different malware from its command and control server.
A Palestinian security researcher demonstrated an exploit for a Facebook bug on the timeline of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
A British citizen and a number of co-conspirators are being charged with hacking crimes against a number of government and military networks.
Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin is introducing a bill that would counteract many of the elements of the US PATRIOT Act that enables the mass collection of data belonging to U.S. Citizens.
Washington D.C. – Saturday marked the twelve-year anniversary of the initial signing of the controversial US PATRIOT Act, the anti-terrorism bill signed into law shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, sections of which have allegedly given federal law enforcement the authority to surreptitiously collect the digital communications data of millions of innocent U.S. citizens.
The United Nations nuclear regulatory body announced that it found malware on a number of its machines but that its networks have not been compromised.
NIST made public a provisional copy of the government’s cybersecurity framework and says it will accept public comment on the draft for the next 45 days.
An Android ad library containing a maliciously potent cocktail of features and vulnerabilities is less of a danger to Android users today after Google and the ad network itself made a series of changes.
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