Adobe Breached, Acrobat and ColdFusion Code Stolen Along with 2.9M Customer Records
Adobe announced it has been breached and attackers may have accessed source code for a number of products, and stolen 2.9 million customer records.
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Revamped Yahoo Bug Bounty Program On the Way—T-Shirts Not Included
Yahoo announced it has revamped its rewards program and will pay out up to $15,000 for high-risk bugs. The announcement comes days after a researcher complained about receiving a $25 discount code as a reward for reporting a handful of vulnerabilities.
Alexander Confirms 2010 NSA Cell Location Pilot Program
NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander confirmed the existence of a 2010 pilot program to collect cell phone location data, but said the program was abandoned.
The FBI shut down the Silk Road online drug marketplace and filed narcotics, money laundering and computer hacking charges against Ross William Ulbricht, also known as Dread Pirate Roberts.
A Metasploit exploit module has been released for the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The flaw has been exploited in attacks against Japanese targets, and expert think the availability of a Metasploit exploit could accelerate attacks.
Microsoft’s latest Law Enforcement Requests Report shows that no requests for Skype user content were made in the first half of 2013.
HD Moore, in collaboration with the University of Michigan, has kicked off Project Sonar, a repository Internet scan data. Moore hopes to crowdsource additional analysis of the data looking for vulnerabilities in embedded devices.
NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander faced questions about whether the spy agency collects cell location data on Americans yesterday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
Microsoft reports having discovered a click-fraud component to the Sefnit malware, thought to have disappeared in 2011. It has also linked Sefnit to the Mevade Tor botnet.
Kaspersky Lab has uncovered Icefog, a series of targeted attacks against sensitive organizations in South Korea and Japan.
