TripAdvisor, the popular travel-planning site, is warning customers that some portion of the company’s customer email database was stolen recently by attackers. The company is not saying how many customers are affected or how the breach occurred.
Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary, admits that lackluster security at his company played a central role in the breach that led to the release of some 50,000 company emails, but also disputes common understanding and reported details of the hack and the group behind it, going so far as to say there was actually no hack at all.
Exploits for scores of vulnerabilities in supervisory control and data acquisition software (SCADA) were made public on Monday, according to a report by The Register.
By Aleks GostevMe and Slammer (Helkern) go back a long way… to 25 January 2003 to be precise. It was a baptism of fire for me in my new role as a virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab. It was a weekend and I was alone, in charge of monitoring the incoming flow of suspicious files. I had barely been at the company a month.
Firefox 4, the newest version of Mozilla’s flagship browser slated for release today, includes a variety of security and privacy protections, but perhaps the most important of them is the addition of the Content Security Policy. The mechanism, which is enabled by default in Firefox 4, is designed to help prevent widespread Web attacks such as cross-site scripting and data injection.
Adobe said it is releasing security updates on Monday to address a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that is being exploited in the wild and could allow a remote attacker to take control of the affected system.
There has been no respite from the tsunami of scam-emails taking advantage of the natural disaster-nuclear meltdown combo punch that is hitting Japan, according to research from Kaspersky Labs.
U.S. hosting firms accounted for the bulk of the command and control centers for the Rustock botnet, with many firms claiming that they had no idea they were harboring an illegal criminal network on their infrastructure, according to a story in Krebsonsecurity.com.
It was a big week in security, what with the takedown of the Rustock botnet takedown, there was a major attack against security firm RSA Security. Threatpost Editor Paul Roberts had a chance to sit down with Bill Sell, host of the weekly IT security news show ITEC This Week on the Pulse Network. Paul and Bill talk about the week’s events, and do a round up of the recent RSA Security Conference.
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