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Oracle security chief: Please comply with your license agreement and stop reverse engineering our code

Oracle’s chief security officer is tired of customers performing their own security tests on Oracle software, and she’s not going to take it anymore. That was the message of a post she made to her corporate blog on August 10—a post that has since been taken down. Tags: Oracle Security Industry News more…

BIND Denial of Service Vulnerability Blamed on Windows 2000 Compatibility Code

The BIND implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical part of the infrastructure of the Internet. For example, almost all of the 13 root name servers use BIND. On July 28 a vulnerability was published in BIND that could be anonymously exploited by an attacker. To crash the server, all an attacker would have to […] more…

Russian hackers accessed Pentagon’s unclassified email system

Russian hackers allegedly accessed the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system, which led the agency to take the service offline for nearly two weeks. NBC News reported, through anonymous sources, that the “sophisticated cyber intrusion” occurred around July 25 and affected nearly 4,000 military and civilian personnel who work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. […] more…

The GasPot Experiment: Hackers Target Gas Tanks

Physically tampering with gasoline tanks is dangerous enough, given how volatile gas can be. Altering a fuel gauge can cause a tank to overflow, and a simple spark can set everything ablaze. But imagine how riskier it is if a hacker can do all this remotely, especially now that a number of fuel companies worldwide […] more…

Flash Threats: Not Just In The Browser

July has been a fairly poor month for Adobe Flash Player security, to say the least. Three separate zero-day vulnerabilities (all courtesy of the Hacking Team dump) have left many people concerned about Flash security, with many (including this blog) calling for it to go away. Some sort of reaction from Adobe to improve Flash […] more…

Lenovo K3 Note Phablet Specifications and Review

Want to have an Android Phones and Tablet with low price and high specification, do not worry because the new Lenovo k3 Note phablet is herre. a new breakthrough for those of you who want to have the latest android smartphone + Tablet 2015 with a high spec and affordable prices. Curious what the given specifications of […] more…

Duke APT group’s latest tools: cloud services and Linux support

Recent weeks have seen the outing of two new additions to the Duke group’s toolset, SeaDuke and CloudDuke. Of these, SeaDuke is a simple trojan made interesting by the fact that it’s written in Python. And even more curiously, SeaDuke, with its built-in support for both Windows and Linux, is the first cross-platform malware we […] more…

Windows 10 Sharpens Browser Security With Microsoft Edge

Internet Explorer is possibly the most popular target for vulnerabilities around today. In 2014 alone, a total of 243 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer were disclosed and patched. Every Microsoft Patch Tuesday cycle contains one bulletin that covers multiple IE vulnerabilities – the monthly “Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer”, as it is called by Microsoft. […] more…

Senate bill proposes cyber security standard for cars

Cars will have to be much better protected against hacking and new privacy standards will govern data collected from vehicles under proposed legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. The Security and Privacy in Your Car Act of 2015 seeks to get a step ahead of what is seen by some as one of […] more…

How to surf the Dark Web for fun and profit

Life is tough if you’re a criminal. Sure, one big score can set you up for life. If you’re smart and disciplined, you can retire early. But the flip side of that is that the smart and disciplined cybercriminals cash out and retire early, leaving you with an increasingly undisciplined and dumb selection of partners […] more…

Why this doctor posted his medical history online for anyone to see

Would you want anyone and everyone to be able to see all your medical records? One doctor posted his entire medical history online, and he wants others to do the same. more…

Latest Flash Player version has improved exploit defenses

The Flash Player update released Tuesday not only fixed two vulnerabilities that were being targeted by attackers, but added additional protections that will make entire classes of security flaws much harder to exploit in the future. There were three low-level defenses added in Flash Player 18.0.0.209, two of which block a technique that has been […] more…

Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates 25 years of defending online privacy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the digital world’s top watchdog when it comes to privacy and free expression. But while cops and firefighters are often ready to retire after 25 years on the job, protecting citizens, the EFF has a full agenda as it celebrates its 25th anniversary today. The EFF was founded in 1990, […] more…

Should You Use AES or TKIP for a Faster Wi-Fi Network?

Poor router security puts your network at risk. While we know that running a tight ship starts with router security, what you may not know is some security settings may slow down your entire network. The primary choices for router-based encryption are WPA2-AES and WPA2-TKIP. Today we’re going to talk a bit about each and […] more…

Why government-mandated encryption backdoors are bad for US businesses

A group of 11 computer scientists and encryption experts breathed a little easier in January 2015 when the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposed the retirement of six Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), including FIPS-185. The 11 experts were instrumental in this standard’s demise. Tags: Security more…

7 places you’ll be surprised to learn are still using Windows XP

7 places you’ll be surprised to learn are still using Windows XP Image by Thinkstock Microsoft announced in April of 2014 that it would no longer support the 13-year-old Windows XP operating system. However, now, more than a year later, Kaspersky Labs and Net Applications both report that between 16-17 percent of computer users still […] more…

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