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Monday, March 8th, 2010Tool automates targeted attacks on social network users
A researcher released a free tool that impersonates a Twitter user’s account in order to execute automated targeted attacks on the person’s followers. A security researcher with Core Security Labs, says the group wrote the tool as a way to demonstrate and test for how social networks can [...]
Info Sec Highlights from the DHS Open Source Report December 8th, 2009
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009NASA Websites Hacked
SQL Injection flaws and weak access control lead to the attack and compromised of the websites of NASA’s NASA’s Instrument Systems and Technology unit and Software Engineering division. Motive is unknown as this point.
Rendered screenshots can be found at:
http://tinkode.baywords.com/index.php/2009/12/nasa-gov-hacked-full-access/
Full Story Here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/nasa_hack/
Good Cyber Security is Good Economics
Internet Security Alliance issued a 70-page report [...]
Need Another Reason to Remove User Accounts?
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Luis Robert Altamirano was charged with computer fraud and sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $50,000. Altamirano was employed as a computer specialist from July to December 2007 by United Way of Miami-Dade (UWMD). Approximately one year after he left UWMD’s employ, Altamirano accessed United Way’s network [...]
Why is Everyone Talking about Social Networking?
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009This is the fourth article in our information security awareness series for the month of October. Enjoy!
You have probably heard about Internet applications like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. Perhaps you have received email invitations to join these online communities. These software platforms are collectively referred to as social networking- a term applied to people and [...]
SANS Webcast on the 20 Critical Security Controls – Aug 13th at 1pm ET
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009I’ll be presenting a webcast for the SANS Institute, along with Alan Paller and Eric Cole on the 20 Critical Security Controls. There’s been a lot of news on these controls in the past few months and a lot of discussion on how they interact with FISMA and NIST guidance for information security. This webcast [...]
Phase 5- WHO Raises Alert Level Again
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009The World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to Phase 5, its second-highest level. This indicates the outbreak of swine flu is nearing widespread human infection.
Dr. Margaret Chan, the U.N. agency’s director-general, said the decision to raise the alert to level five on its six-point scale means all countries “should immediately now [...]
WHO raises its pandemic alert level Phase 4. Biosurveillance startup knew first
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Things have gotten more serious with the Swine Flu situation both in the USA as well as world-wide. Early this evening, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to phase 4, indicating a significantly increased risk of a global outbreak of a serious disease. In a related note, WHO revised its 6-point [...]
WHO raises its pandemic alert level phase 4- SwineFlu Chatter
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Things have gotten more serious with the Swine Flu situation both in the USA as well as world-wide. Early this evening, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to phase 4, indicating a significantly increased risk of a global outbreak of a serious disease. In a related note, WHO revised its 6-point [...]
Audit Firm Sues Partner for Insider Trading
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Deloitte & Touche has brought an insider-trading lawsuit against a former partner and vice chairman, Thomas Flanagan from Deloitte’s Chicago office. In a case filed in Delaware Chancery Court in late October, the audit firm sued Thomas Flanagan, a 30-year veteran of the firm, accusing him of improperly trading in the securities of at least [...]
National Office of Cyberspace
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008A wide range of legislators and security experts serving on The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency recommended that a new office in the Executive Office of the President be created. This could mean that ultimate authority would reside Executive Office of the President, and government agencies [...]
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