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China Shut Down Biggest Hacker Training Site
February 09, 2010 from: Saumil's Infosec Blog
What is believed to be the country's biggest hacker training site has been shut down by police in Central China's Hubei province. Three people were also arrested, local media reported yesterday. The three, who ran Black Hawk Safety Net, are suspected of offering others online attacking programs and software, a crime recently added to the Criminal Law. A total of 1.7 million yuan ($249,000) in asse...
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Today’s threat: computer network terrorism
February 08, 2010 from: Saumil's Infosec Blog
“Carry out all my demands or the entire country’s electricity will be cut off.” Is this another line from a suspense film, or is it a palpable threat made possible with a computer keyboard? “Today, there is a growing trend amongst hackers around the world to threaten national infrastructures for ransom,” says Dr. Yaniv Levyatan, an expert in information war at the Uni...
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Hacking the US Government Is Cheap – Costwise
December 21, 2009 from: AEON Security Blog
Anyone who follows information security news is probably wondering this week: “What in the hell is up with security in this country”. At least for those of us living in the United States, this should of been the statement of choice.
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If DOD can do this, why can’t they manage to remove SSNs?
December 03, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Defense Department will not meet its end-of-the-year deadline for removing Social Security numbers from military ID cards as they are issued or renewed, the Pentagon has confirmed.
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Many More Government Records Compromised in 2009 than Year Ago, Report Claims
December 03, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
If you’re bummed about the data in your department that just got breached, you have some cold comfort. Although the combined number of reported data breaches in the government and the military has dropped in 2009 compared to last year, many more records were compromised in those breaches, according to recent figures compiled by a California nonprofit.
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Government accused of ‘cover up’ over lost farmer tapes
November 06, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been accused of a “cover up” after two back-up tapes went missing containing the banking details of around 100,000 farmers.
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Senate Panel Clears Data Breach Bills
November 05, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved two companion bills that would require businesses and government agencies to notify individuals of security breaches involving sensitive personally identifiable information. Both bills go to the Senate for consideration.
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Probe Targets Archives’ Handling of Data on 70 Million Vets
October 01, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration is investigating a potential data breach of tens of million of records about U.S. military veterans, after the agency sent a defective hard drive back to its vendor for repair and recycling without first destroying the data.
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Auditor: Bullitt lacked proper controls to prevent online theft
September 16, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Bullitt County [Kentucky] Fiscal Court did not have sufficient online banking controls in place at the time of the June online theft of $415,989, according to a report by the state auditor.
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Website exposes sensitive details on military personnel
September 08, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Programming errors on a website that helps commuters carpool to work are exposing sensitive information of workers for hundreds of employers in Southern California, including at least one military installation.
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Email Obfuscation and Spam Robots
September 08, 2009 from: Rsnake's blog at ha.ckers.org
I’ve long been interested in spam and robots that scrape for email addresses. I’ve done tons of work in the space, although I’ve never published any of it. Call it more of a side hobby than anything I really want to go public with - as it is with a lot of my research
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Digital Direct reports breach
September 05, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Chris Cooper of Bloomberg.com reports that Digital Direct, Inc., a unit of Mitsubishi Corp., had a breach of their e-commerce web site that resulted in the compromise of 52,000 customers’ credit card numbers.
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Helping users keep plugins updated
September 04, 2009 from: Mozilla Security Blog
Starting with the upcoming releases of Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14, Mozilla will warn users if their version of the popular Adobe Flash Player plugin is out of date. Old versions of plugins can cause crashes and other stability problems, and can also be a significant security risk.
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Best of Application Security (Friday, Sep. 4)
September 04, 2009 from: Jeremiah Grossman's Blog
Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Regularly released until year end. Then the Best of Application Security 2009 will be selected!
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Announcement Regarding The October 2009 Critical Patch Update
September 03, 2009 from: The Oracle Global Product Security Blog
Because many Oracle customers with responsibility for deploying the Critical Patch Update within their respective organizations will be attending Oracle OpenWorld on October 11-15, 2009; the October 2009 Critical Patch Update originally scheduled to be published on Tuesday, October 13th 2009, will be released on October 20th 2009.
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