I'm beginning to wonder what's going on over at Kaspersky Labs. Kaspersky Labs has called a virus whose only purpose is to steal data a "cyber weapon". Come on, guys. Espionage is not warfare and never has been. Hence a tool created solely to conduct cyber espionage cannot also be legitimately called a cyber weapon...

Dancho Danchev: In this week’s Q&A, I chat with Jeffrey Carr, the founder and CEO of Taia Global, and the author of ‘Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld’, on the current state of the cyber-warfare threat.

The UK’s companies 123-reg, the biggest domain provider,  was hit this week by a “massive” DDoS attack that caused interruption of the services provided. The company hosts three million domain names and more than 1.4 million...

PostgreSQL is a database that comes with MacOS X Lion as a default standard database.Also according to wikipedia the majority of Linux distributions have the PostgreSQL in the supplied packages.So besides the regular databases (Oracle,MySQL etc.)...

Organizations below the security poverty line tend to be inordinately dependent on third parties and have less direct control over the security of the systems they use. They end up ceding risk decisions to third parties that they ideally should be making themselves...

Recently at TakeDownCon I brought up a term during my offense keynote that I thought the audience would, and should, be familiar with. Unfortunately, when I asked who was familiar with Root Cause Analysis only a few hands out of the whole room went up. This was a bit distressing...

MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) - Russia's deputy foreign ministersaid on Sunday that military action against Iran over itsnuclear programme was being considered in some Westerncountries. Deputy...

If you are studying for the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) get ready to boost your studies. LinkedIn Information Security Community is promoting a Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH) online click that you can take part...

A community-driven event by infosec volunteers who know their stuff for infosec community members. FREE admission. 32 talks. Be there to learn and share honestly.

I got an interesting press release from Application Security Inc. saying the company is willing to donate up to $1 million in security software to help enterprises avoid data breaches. Companies that choose to take advantage of...

Although many studies fail at basic science, I'm hopeful that the information security industry will get better both at true academic research and at coming up with accurate metrics for the most important data. We'll get there as we mature as an industry, but it will take a while...

You do need to assess how the vulnerability is exposed, what mitigations are in place or even possible, how hard the threat may be to execute against your situation, and whether there is a graceful failure mode if the opportunity turns out to be inopportune...

HashDays is a the premier technical security conference in the center of Switzerland organized by Defcon Switzerland. It’s a highly technical conference sponsored by many well know s players in the security market. Registrations for the conference are already open and can be found at https://www.hashdays.ch/registration/.The conference doesn’t already have a schedule so stay tuned for the next inf

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International crime-fighting agency Interpol has said it will make cybercrime a main priority this year, and will launch a dedicated online crime complex in Singapore in...

International Senior Management Professionals involved in Financial Crime Risk Management Fraud, AML, Due Diligence, Audit, Compliance, IT/IS Corporate Cyber eCrime Security Investigation, prevention and detection Law Enforcement/Police investigators with specialist interest in Financial Services.

The fact that we rely upon pseudorandom numbers is a potential problem for IT security. If a machine is using a known algorithm to generate a number that your system then treats as random, what is to stop an attacker from calculating that same number if he knows your algorithm...