The UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has published the second of its annual Threat Assessment of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse reports.
The UK’s MI5 and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have revealed that according to their information-gathering activities, Britain faces around 70 sophisticated cyber-espionage operations per month against its government and industry networks.
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
Spiegel Online reported Saturday that it had seen Snowden documents indicating that the NSA had 'spied' on both the EU's diplomatic representation in Washington and its representation to the United Nations.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a mobile device management guide for federal agencies seeking secure methods for workers to use smartphones and tablets.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you an important announcement: On Thursday, June 6th, just in time for SummerCon, we will be hosting a free Ruby Security Workshop in NYC! Signups are first-come, first-serve and we only have space for 30 people. Sign up here and we will emai...
Norway’s Opera Software has issued an advisory this week detailing a June 19 attack by hackers who breached the company’s network and used one of its older, expired code-signing certificates to digitally sign a Zeus-based piece of malware and package it as an update for the Opera internet browser.
While the Lotus F1 Team prepares for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone this weekend, Infosecurity talked to its CIO about the network and security demands in a very unusual business.
In the final part of our three-part series, we investigate the how the toolkit user gained control of program flow and what their strategy means for the reliability of their exploit. Elderwood and the Department of Labor Hack Writing Exploits with the Elderwood Kit (Part 1) Writing Exploits with the...
A UK security researcher has disclosed a bug in Facebook's code that allowed him to take over any Facebook account in less than a minute - and earned himself a $20,000 bug bounty in the process.
Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies and other books, founder of Counterpane (now BT Managed Security Solutions), and designer of the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms, has joined the board of EFF.
In the second part of our three-part series, we investigate the tools provided by the Elderwood kit for developing exploits from discovered vulnerabilities. Elderwood and the Department of Labor Hack Writing Exploits with the Elderwood Kit (Part 1) Writing Exploits with the Elderwood Kit (Part 2) Se...
A group of investors led by venture capital firm Split Rock Partners has provided $15 million in new funding to Vormetric, the San Jose-based firm that specializes in security and encryption services for virtual, cloud-based and physical environments.
Just as the science of fingerprints, DNA, and fiber analysis have become invaluable in criminal forensics, connecting the dots of an advanced cyber-attack can help identify even the most sophisticated threat actors – if researchers know what to look for.
Nobody doubts that BYOD is a security issue – the connection of employees’ personal devices to the corporate network worries IT staff. There are security solutions; but study after study surprisingly shows that many companies simply ignore the problem – either not allowing the use of BYOD even thoug...
A current spam campaign from the Cutwail botnet is sending out the Andromeda bot loader (aka Gamarue) which subsequently downloads the Zeus banking trojan. Numerous spam themes are employed, including flight/ticket details, courier, tax, hotel, payroll, invoice, social media and others.
CREST is the council for registered ethical security testers, a standards based organisation that provides assurance and trust in penetration testers and ethical hackers. On 3 July 2013 it is running its first CRESTx conference at Lancaster university, one of the EPSRC-GCHQ Academic Centres of Excel...
Phishing attacks are evolving, and becoming more widespread over time: Kaspersky Lab has found that 3,000 UK internet users were subjected to phishing attacks each day for the past year, a notable increase from 1,000 the year before.
Google, which flags 10,000 unsafe websites each day, has expanded its Transparency Report to add a section that will shed more light on the sources of malware and phishing attacks.
Women in Security (WiS), a special interest group led by (ISC)²'s London Chapter, is launching a mentoring scheme to help women interested in information security to explore the profession and the opportunities its offers.