Chief Spy Says U.S. Too Secret About Cyber Threats
A former CIA Director says the U.S. Government is being too secretive about cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Web Security
Report: DDoS Attacks On the Rise in 2011
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, according to a report released by Trustwave this week.
Expert: Malicious Mobile App Fears Overblown
“It’s the code, stupid!” At least that’s what application security expert Andy Chou observes about go-go world of mobile devices. In this interview with Threatpost’s Paul Roberts, recorded at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, Chou said that mobile device software vendors face many of the same risks that PC giants like Microsoft did a decade ago.
Adobe is warning its users about a critical vulnerability in Flash that affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat, as well. The bug can be used by remote attackers to run arbitrary code and Adobe officials said that they’ve already seen some attacks that are targeting the vulnerability.
The hacker collective known as Anonymous published a collection of e-mail messages that allege mortgage fraud at U.S. banking giant Bank of America.
Rogue
anti virus software companies have decided to “reach out and touch
someone,” according to a new report from Krebsonsecurity.com.
Web sites are chronically insecure, according to new data from security firm WhiteHat Security.
There is a wave of ongoing attacks against a bug in MHTML that affects all of the current versions of Windows, and there seems to be little recourse for sites trying to protect their users from the attacks.
Google has patched one of the vulnerabilities that a team of researchers used last week to win one portion of the Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest. The bug is in the WebKit rendering engine.
The latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer promises to make it harder for malicious hackers to push dodgy Web applications onto end user systems, with a new Application Reputation filter.
