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Researchers at Symantec discovered that an outdated version of a controversial Android app called ‘Dog Wars’ is infected with a trojan apparently placed by animal rights activists offended by the game’s premise.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.
Editor’s note: Finding Aaron Barr at this year’s DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas was like a giant game of “Where’s Waldo.” Given the events of the past year, you can hardly blame him for keeping a low profile. First there was the attack on him and his then-employer, HBGary Federal, his decision to part ways with HBGary, his work to rehabilitate his image and turn his personal misfortunes into a ‘teaching moment’ for the industry, and then the legal wrangling in recent weeks that threw cold water on his plans to take part in a panel discussion about Anonymous at DEFCON. Barr was courted by numerous news outlets at the show, including the mainstream media. But he preferred, for the most part, to keep his counsel. So when Aaron offered to contribute his thoughts on this year’s DEFCON to Threatpost, we jumped at it. Here’s what he had to say.
The steady drumbeat of malware and spyware targeting the Android platform is continuing, this time with the emergence of a new variant of an Android Trojan that masquerades as a Google+ app and has the ability to not only record phone calls, but also to answer incoming calls and respond to remote commands that arrive via SMS.
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