Collaborate Disseminate
Two alleged hackers, said to have compromised the online accounts of senior government officials, have had their collars felt.
Continue reading FBI arrests Crackas With Attitude who allegedly hacked CIA boss’s AOL account
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Facebook censors one of the world’s most famous photographs from its site.
Continue reading Facebook censors iconic image of Vietnamese girl fleeing napalm attack
Krebs on Security writes:
vDOS – a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web sites offline … Continue reading Online DDoS service vDOS hacked, spills details of its customers and targets
Too many websites are being lax with the security of your passwords and credit card information, and Google says enough is enough.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Unencrypted website? Expect to start being shamed by Google Chrome from January
A congressional report claims that the OPM failed to take the right measures to prevent its devastating data breach.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security.
Continue reading Report claims national security was put at risk by the OPM data breach
With the huge number of sites running WordPress, and the frequency with which attackers exploit vulnerabilities on the platform to launch malicious attacks, it makes sense for self-hosting bloggers to update their systems as soon as possible.
Continue reading WordPress bloggers ‘strongly encouraged’ to immediately apply security update
Amit Yoran, president of security firm RSA, writes:
Today is a new beginning for RSA as we are now a part of the collective team of Dell Technologies, the world’s largest privately controlled tech company.
No doubt, many of you are asking what the impact of this merger will be to RSA. I am happy to tell you that RSA’s mission remains unchanged. And our commitment and passion to help our customers transform their security programs remain unchanged. RSA will continue to focus on delivering solutions that help enable our customers worldwide to create business-driven security strategies that connect business context with threat activities to more quickly and efficiently defend against cyber risk. There will be no changes to our product strategies, sales models, customer support interactions, processes, or resources that we are not driving.
The acquisition comes as part of Dell’s multi-billion dollar takeover of RSA’s parent company EMC.
RSA has published customer and partner FAQs.
Yeah, yeah… RSA is a security company. That’s why it offers its customers FAQs in the form of PDF files.
Motherboard reports:
On Tuesday, porn site Pornhub said it would be ditching all Flash content from its site, opting instead for HTML5, the most recent version of the web language that offers more support for multimedia content. Since hackers have had a number of successes at compromising porn sites, it’s notable that one of the largest is taking this step, albeit when Flash is already on its last legs.
“It was just a matter of time until we switched, as HTML5 is becoming the standard across platforms. Now makes the most sense as Google and Firefox are slowly pushing Flash support out of their browsers. Plus HTML5 has improved security, better power consumption and it’s faster to load,” Corey Price, vice president of Pornhub, told Motherboard in an email.
“All adult sites should make the transition to HTML5. Flash is nearly dead,” he added.
Ahh, la petite mort…
It has been a long and lingering death, but when Adobe Flash is finally gone for good, please don’t send any flowers. We’re well rid of it.
If you’re bold enough to still be using the internet with Flash enabled please enable “Click to Play” at the very least.
But if you want to enter the brave new world of a Flash-less world, here is our guide on how to uninstall it from your computers.
Continue reading Porn sites are giving up on Adobe Flash – and who can blame them?
A security consultant reveals how he was able to find out information about a scammer, attempting to trick a company into making an urgent wire transfer.
Find out how your company can better protect itself from similar business email compromise attacks.
Continue reading How to turn the tables on fake CEO scammers