DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Finale Set For DEF CON 2016
DARPA announced that the finale of the Cyber Grand Challenge will be held during DEF CON 2016. More than 30 teams have signed up to build the best automated network defense system.
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Phishing Campaign Sending Dropbox Links to Zeus Downloads
A phishing campaign has been detected that sends victims Dropbox links leading to a .zip file hosting the Zeus banking Trojan.
GnuTLS Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Bug
Open source cryptographic library GnuTLS recently patched a remote code execution and denial of service vulnerability.
The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability can be exploited over wireless networks, according to a researcher who released PoC code for attacks against wireless authentication programs hostapd and wpa_supplicant.
Organizers of the TrueCrypt audit say they hope to crowdsource some of the cryptanalysis slated for phase two.
Google took steps toward compliance with a European privacy ruling that allows individuals to request their names be removed from search results.
The NSA released an email from Edward Snowden to the agency’s legal authority that refutes claims Snowden repeatedly raised concerns about surveillance.
No concrete reason for the TrueCrypt shutdown has emerged, giving way instead to speculation that perhaps the developers’ abrupt decision is a warrant canary.
A post on the TrueCrypt page at SourceForge warns that open source encryption software TrueCrypt is not secure and development has shut down.
Microsoft’s new myBulletins service is a dashboard view of Microsoft products in their environment and any related security bulletins and updates. Some are critical of its lack of security advisories and lack of notifications.
