Herbal Viagra peddlers beware: Google and GoDaddy are coordinating the
establishment of a non-profit organization dedicated to curbing the spread of
illegal online pharmaceutical companies.
The WikiLeaks disclosures this fall that have precipitated so much controversy and agita among national security officials and politicians should not be used as a springboard for new, more restrictive laws, lawmakers, attorneys and policy analysts said in a House hearing Thursday.
UPDATEOhio State University warned those who have had contact with the University that a server containing personally identifiable data was illegally accessed by a third party and may have exposed data on 760,000 people.
Microsoft’s vulnerability Severity Rating System is closing in on its tenth birthday. While the security landscape has been transformed during that time, the Ratings have endured. But do they still work? Threatpost asked prominent vulnerability researchers to give us their opinion. You may be surprised at what they had to say.
Microsoft released its monthly patch Tuesday bulletins fixing more than 40 vulnerabilities in a variety of products including Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and Sharepoint Server. The release, the company’s final monthly patch of 2010, brings the total number of security fixes to 106 – the highest total ever for the company.
The New York
Times reported that Julian Assange, founder, spokesperson, and editor-in-chief
of Wikileaks, has been granted bail by a British court.
The ruling comes as Assange
and his attorneys continue to fight demands from Swedish prosecutors that he be
extradited to Sweden. Assange remains in detention pending an appeal by the
prosecution which is set to take place within the next 48 hours.
CLARIFICATION: This story corrects information concerning the availability of the stolen account names and passwords online.
Millions of Web users are waking up to news that broke over the weekend that systems belonging to Gawker Media were hacked and password data on millions of user accounts published on the Internet. How can you figure out if your e-mail and password were among more than a million that were stolen? Read on for instructions on figuring out if you’re one of the victims of the Gawker attack, and what to do about it.
By Des WilsonThe illustrious op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal featured talk of cyberwar again this week with “How to Fight and Win the Cyberwar.” The piece, written by Mortimer Zuckerman, rehashes some important facts: U.S. critical infrastructure, including the parts of it owned by major enterprises, is under constant attack from cyber criminals, nation-states, and terrorists.
A massive hack of systems belonging to online publishing giant Gawker Media has put gigabytes of sensitive information related to Gawker founder Nick Denton and the company’s operations online. But a trove of millions of hashed account passwords could be an even bigger problem for untold numbers of individuals, companies and government agencies.
Dutch authorities issued a statement Thursday saying that a 16 year old boy has been taken into custody for involvement in attacks against the Web sites of Mastercard and Visa.
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