The hack of a commercially available insulin pump earlier this month at the DEFCON hacker conference has attracted the attention of members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which is now calling for a formal review of wireless medical devices like the pump.
A group of researchers have developed a new attack that enables them to find AES keys several times faster than was previously thought possible, reducing the complexity of finding the keys on AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256. However, the attack does not pose any practical threat to currently deployed systems that use the AES encryption algorithm, the researchers said.
We all know that the fake news shows like The Daily Show and Colbert Report are a lot smarter and more informative than the nightly “GlobalCarWreckStrangerAbductionSportsHighlight” montage that passes for the local news. Last night’s interview of famed hacker and security consultant Kevin Mitnick on the Colbert report proved it again.
The state of California has approved new rules to protect the data stored on so-called “smart meters,” in an effort to protect customer consumption data as household utilities are wired and connected to an IP-enabled “smart grid.”
Researchers at Symantec discovered that an outdated version of a controversial Android app called ‘Dog Wars’ is infected with a trojan apparently placed by animal rights activists offended by the game’s premise.
Mozilla has released Firefox 6 through its automatic update mechanism and the new version of the group’s popular browser includes fixes for 10 vulnerabilities, several of them critical flaws that could allow remote code execution.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has drawn the ire of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) following an audit of the FDIC’s system this month.
Adobe took pains to defuse a dispute between the company and famed Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, posting more information about the holes fixed with a patch for its Flash Player software. Adobe had claimed that 13 separate vulnerabilities were patched with the bulletin APSB11-21, while Ormandy said that patch addressed hundreds of holes.
In this video, courtesy of Kaspersky’s Lab Matters, Ryan Naraine talks with David Lenoe, Head of the Product Security Incident Response Team, Adobe, about that company’s process for responding to security vulnerabilities in its products.
In their latest effort, the online-collective Anonymous breached the Website of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System.
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