Week one of the Mega cloud storage service bug bounty is in the books and at least three payouts have been made. Controversial entrepreneur and MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom made the challenge last week offering a €10,000 reward to anyone who could break the encryption protecting the service.
For now, the Lucky Thirteen attacks described in a paper last week by researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London, are largely theoretical. But the potential exists to adapt techniques used in the BEAST attacks against TLS/SSL to improve the feasibility of Lucky Thirteen, a researcher said.
Tired of all those malware and vulnerability reports that count how many of each have been reported to security companies? Well, Microsoft has taken a different tack in its latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR) by globally comparing regions’ relative security against socio-economic factors including the maturity of a national or regional cybersecurity policy.The results aren’t so surprising; areas such as Europe with well-defined, long-standing and enforceable policies rate much better than less developed nations where crime per capita is higher, there’s less broadband penetration and a higher rate of piracy.
Exploits targeting two previously unreported flaws in Flash Player prompted Adobe to release an emergency patch yesterday. One of the attacks is targeting aerospace and other manufacturing companies, and is being delivered via infected Microsoft Office documents. The other is being carried out over the Web targeting Firefox and Safari on Mac OS X.
Microsoft and Symantec have shut down a massive click fraud botnet known as Bamital, numerous variants of which have been in circulation since 2009 amassing several million dollars in fraudulent profit for the attackers as well as spreading more malware including scareware.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The term “cyberwar” is the “zero day” of security jargon; it’s getting so that every bug is a zero day and every attack is hash-tagged cyberwar.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Dan Hubbard has lately been a regular face at a lot of big data meet-ups. He’s also often been the lone security face at these meet-ups, which are dominated by analytics, search, social media and advertising professionals. That may change soon for the CTO of DNS and security service provider OpenDNS, who announced today at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit that security researchers will have free access to a new tool called Umbrella Security Graph.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The world of SCADA and industrial control system vulnerabilities is starting to mirror that of IT security, not only in the demonstration and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities, but in the brokering of flaws and exploits between hackers and organizations interested in buying research.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – It’s the vulnerability that never was. Or was it?
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Activist Chris Soghoian, whom in the past has targeted zero-day brokers with his work, has turned his attention toward wireless carriers and their reluctance to provide regular device updates to Android mobile devices.
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