Monthly Archives: January 2015

Less than 48 hours after the disclosure of the Ghost vulnerability in the GNU C library (glibc), researchers have uncovered that PHP applications, including the WordPress content management system, could be another weak spot and eventually in the crosshairs of … Continue reading →

You’re minding your own business, when something in the sky snags your attention. Is it a bird or a plane? Nope, it’s a drone falling out of the sky because it’s infected with malware. Yeppers, “you read that right,” wrote … Continue reading →

To avoid being banned throughout Turkey, Facebookhas blocked Turkish users’ access to a number of pages containing content that the authorities had deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, according to a company employee with direct knowledge of the matter and … Continue reading →

The Russian Federation holds an interesting, albeit a dubious position in the ranks of nation state cyber-actors. While ranked third among countries in terms of volume of cyber activity (behind the U.S. and China, according to Deutsche Telekom’s honeypot network … Continue reading →

Barrett Brown, who became a cause célèbre after he was charged with crimes related to the 2011 Stratfor hack, will not go free as his supporters hoped. He was sentenced today in Texas to five years and three months in … Continue reading →

Security engineer Dylan Saccomanni has discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability that can be exploited to take over domains registered with Go Daddy, and has forced the popular internet domain registrar and web hosting company to issue a fix sooner rather … Continue reading →

The Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report is out and the findings are troubling as always: for every positive finding in the report, it seems, there is a negative finding, neutralizing any gains in the network security struggle. Chief information security … Continue reading →

Breach Notification refers to the notification that businesses, government agencies and other entities are required by law in most states to do when certain personally identifiable information is obtained or believed to have been obtained by an unauthorized party. The … Continue reading →

FBI seems to consider seriously the list of IP addresses involved in the hack of US CENTCOM social media accounts and provided by members of Anonymous. The FBI is investigating on IP addresses released by the Anonymous collective in a … Continue reading →

Since last week’s attacks in France, hacking attempts have been made against roughly 19,000 French websites, the AP reported on Thursday, citing Admiral Arnaud Coustilliere, head of cyberdefense for the French military. Coustilliere said that some of the cyber attacks … Continue reading →