Two different presentations at Black Hat Las Vegas on August 2nd 2013 called new attention to the risks posed by smart TVs increasingly found in homes and offices around the world. Researchers demonstrated how vulnerabilities in these systems can be used to steal online credentials, sensitive data a...
Self-promotion through social media is the key to improving your visibility in the information security industry Javvad Malik told an engaged audience at BSides Las Vegas on August 1st 2013.
Today we’re excited to release an open-source version of iVerify! iPhone users now have an easy way to ensure their phones are free of malware. iVerify validates the integrity of supported iOS devices and detects modifications that malware or jailbreaking would make, without the use of signatures. I...
A new community database has been launched by Verizon to help bridge the uncertainty gap in data breach information: what we know and what we need to know. Based on VERIS, it is designed to facilitate the secure sharing of incident information for the good of all.
The Guardian has released the latest of its Edward Snowden leaks – NSA training material for a system called XKeyscore that allows analysts to search through vast databases of emails, online chats and browsing histories.
Les composants des systèmes d’information industriels étant mal armés pour résister à des cyber-attaques, que faut-il faire :
les rendre plus résistants en réduisant leur vulnérabilité ? (les « patcher »)
ou les mettre hors de portée des attaquants via des [...] Lire la suite
Responsible zero-day vulnerability disclosure is on the increase, according to Brian Gorenc, manager of HP’s Zero Day Initiative.
As the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) continues its hacking spree across largely Western organizations, it is worth pausing to question: what is the SEA, how does it operate, and what are its motivations?
iOS apps are worse than Android apps, and free apps are worse than paid apps – but in a study that has implications for both personal and BYOD use, as many as 83% of all apps exhibit at least one form of risky behavior.
It's a question of where to start: TalkTalk's filter provided by Huawei; more than porn will be blocked; UK's 'pornification' MP Claire Perry hacked and now sued; at least one ISP in open rebellion; and Anonymous launches op PornStorm.
Google's Chromecast, a $35 device for streaming internet video to the TV, has been rooted within days of its launch.
Caroline Criado-Perez successfully campaigned for the inclusion of women on British banknotes. But from the moment it was announced she had succeeded and that Jane Austen will appear in 2017, she has received a barrage of abuse and threats via Twitter.
A new report claims that computers from the world's largest PC manufacturer, China's Lenovo, have been banned from use within the interconnected intelligence networks of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Well-known “ATM hacker” Barnaby Jack died on Thursday in San Francisco. He passed away just ahead of the Black Hat conference where he was planning to speak on “Hacking Humans,” including a man-killing compromise of heart implants.
Four Russians and one Ukrainian were yesterday charged with conspiracy in a worldwide hacking spree that stole 160 million credit card numbers and cost the victim companies hundreds of millions of dollars.
French web-hosting company OVH has admitted that it was hacked when the internal network at its offices in Roubaix was compromised. Customers in Europe and North America are affected.
As enterprises increasingly rely on cloud service providers and other third-party vendors to provide fundamental services, the related security risk becomes more significant. Global IT association ISACA has released a new guide applying the COBIT 5 business framework for the governance and managemen...
The companies on the London Stock Exchange pose a serious risk to the UK’s national security, according to KPMG, which found that all FTSE 350 firms are leaking data that can be used by a range of cyber attackers, including state-sponsored cyber-spies.
One week ago the ACLU revealed widespread US police license plate monitoring and complained of too few rules to prevent abuse. Yesterday the ICO used the UK's data protection law to tell UK police to stop doing similar.
One would have to be living under a rock, or using two cans and a piece of string to communicate, not to be aware that mobile and WiFi security threats are escalating as wireless networking penetration rises. The latest numbers reveal that in the second quarter of 2013, a full 10% of home networks a...