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A distributed denial of service attack knocked the website of the domain name registrar Network Solutions LLC offline this morning and affected an unknown number of its clients’ sites as well.
IntegraXor, a manufacturer of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) equipment, announced last week that it would implement a bug bounty program offering points redeemable for company services to researchers that disclose security vulnerabilities in their IGX SCADA system.
The Social Security Numbers of tens of thousands of Americans ended up in a searchable public database that provides access to the tax filing applications of Section 527 political organizations on the Internal Revenue Service’s website.
Apache has patched a denial of service vulnerability in the Apache CXF framework.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Civil Aviation Registry lacks proper security controls to prevent unauthorized access to its systems.
Video game publisher Ubisoft is telling its users to change their passwords after a breach compromised the company’s account database.
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center reports of unusual behavior from the Vobfus and Beebone malware families where each malware variant continuously downloads a version of the other.
General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear yesterday in a speech to the Brookings Institution that the military, the government, and the private sector each has a role to play in hardening the country against cyberattacks.
A vulnerability existed in Facebook that an attacker could have exploited via standard messaging service in order to take complete control of any mobile-linked account on the world’s largest social network.
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill proposed a plan she called Reclaim Your Name that would regulate how data brokers collect and share consumers’ personal information.
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