Research in Motion CTO David Yach said that the rolling service outages that its Blackberry mobile phone system has experienced in the last few days wasn’t due to a security compromise, but to an unsuccessful fail over following a core switch failure in Europe.
A troubling and persistent virus infection at Creech Air Force base was kept secret from senior Air Force cyber security officials for weeks while IT staff in the affected unit at Creech struggled to eradicate the infection, according to a report by Wired.com.
The German government acknowledged on Tuesday that a trojan horse program used to perform lawful intercept is capable of far more than it was said to be. The confirmation comes after an analysis by hacking group The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) which alleged that the program may be in breach of the law.
Wired’s ThreatLevel Blog reported on Friday that a computer virus is plaguing the systems used to remotely control the U.S. military’s fleet of unmanned drone aircraft.
A House GOP task force called on Congress this week to adopt voluntary incentives – rather than federal requirements – to get private companies to further develop their cyber security.
Samy Kamkar has always been prescient. He first gained notoriety by showing how nascent social networks like MySpace could be used to spread malware rapidly among a population of millions (now billions) of users. His worm for MySpace, dubbed the ‘Samy Worm’ earned him a visit from law enforcement. But Kamkar kept up his research. More recently, he has turned his attention and considerable skills to the problem of persistent user tracking. His Evercookie, released in October, 2010, called attention to the myriad of ways that advertisers, media firms and online merchants were finding to track their customers – often despite explicit efforts by customers to prevent their online activities to be tracked. More recently, his research into suspicious geotagging was the foundation for a class action lawsuit against Microsoft.
The Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security met with various other government agencies and private-sector leaders yesterday to discuss the need for a code of conduct for detecting, mitigating, and otherwise dealing with botnets.
With the resignation of longtime CEO Steve Jobs still looming in its rear view mirror, Apple Computer will be on the marketing offensive this week when it releases a major upgrade to its popular iPhone mobile phone line and talks up a pending update to its iOS mobile operating system.
Military health service providers, TRICARE and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) report a data breach of involving the personal information of an estimated 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients.
One of the biggest talks at this year’s Black Hat Briefings was a presentation on the structural problem with digital certificate authorities by Moxie Marlinspike. The subsequent hack of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar and a damning report on that attack only weeks later, and more recent reports of exploitable holes in both TLS and SSL only underscore the problems facing the entire PKI-based system for ensuring online identities.
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