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Team Cymru Internet Security News
  • Dragon Research Group(DRG) Distro
  • (ISC)2 Security Congress/ASIS International 58th Annual Seminar and Exhibits
  • The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS
  • Anonymous Joins Forces with Nepalese Hacktivists Against Political and Business Elite
  • Automation key for time-poor security boffins
  • Toolbox And Strategies For Winning The 'War On Sharing' In The EU
  • Comment: Social media, national security and privacy
  • Sheriff's office still recovering from hacker attack
  • US predicts major cyber attack
  • Anonymous thrives under faceless guise
  • On Distrusting Your Toaster and Other Tiny Dystopias
  • Saudi Arabian Hackers Attack Iranian Oil Companies
  • China Continues its Focus on Cyber: Report
  • A Lesson From the First Cyber Cops
  • Anti-Piracy Outfits Launch Attack on BitTorrent Protocol
  • M-Trends #3 RATs! Increasing Use of Publicly Available Malware in Targeted Attacks
  • More Than Half Of Corporate Boards In Survey Do Not Review Cybersecurity Risks
  • US Is Ready for Attack on Iran If Need Be, Says Ambassador to Israel
  • FBI 'looking at' law making Web sites wiretap-ready, director says
  • White House Replaces Cybersecurity Chief
  • SANS NewsBites - Volume: XIV, Issue: 40
  • I4S video: ASIS president Eduard Emde at IFSEC International 2012
  • Greece - The Bonfire of Civilisation
  • Attorney for self-confessed tax cheats defends action for damages against UBS
  • Fraud charges for former financial advisory chief
  • Langevin Proposes Cybersecurity Amendments To Defense Bill
  • Nearly half of airport security breaches unreported to TSA headquarters
  • Citigroup Sued By South Koreas Woori Bank Over CDO Losses
  • Utah CTO Resigns After Massive Security Breach
  • FINRA Forces Out Compliance Officer for Lack of Heightened Supervision
  • UK snipers cover blown? Candidate list left in sold car
  • Fomer Napfa Chair Charged with Defrauding Clients of $47.5 Million
  • Concerns for Chinese firms and the cyberespionage
  • Cyber Security In India: The Missing Links
  • An ambiguous fbi cyber alert raises more questions than it answers
  • Microsoft Holds Security Development Conference
  • Top Cybersecurity Job Is Changing Hands
  • AusCERT2012: Anti-virus a SCADA kill switch
  • Performance Audit of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation for Budget Formulation
  • Post-9/11 effort to cyber-secure U.S. infrastructure killed in 2006
  • UK is hacking hotspot
  • The week in security: AusCERT debates the threat of cyber war holocaust
  • The Unseen Security Dangers in Financial Web Sites
  • The Evolution of the Hacktivist Threat
  • US firms over-reliant on firewalls to defend against DDoS attacks
  • Doctors warned not to use social media with patients
  • Cyber security: U.S. mulls blocking China Mobile license
  • Who attacked WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay?
  • Securities fraud hacker charged after $1 million heist
  • Will voluntary cyber threat sharing plan cast doubt over CISPA?
  • $50 Million Lost To Online Romance Scammers Annually
  • Android malware using real apps as disguise 'wrappers'
  • Android hackers hone skills in Russia
  • Should jailbreaking gaming consoles, mobile phones and tablets be legalized?
  • From Saucy Pics to Passwords: How to Share Sensitive Information Over the Internet
  • Origins of Global Hacks: UK leaps up hacking league table
  • Facebook Hacker Gareth Crosskey Jailed For One Year
  • ZTE confirms security hole in U.S. phone
  • Texas fights identity theft
  • Australia, US sign cyber security deal
  • Hacker Lewys Martin uses Call of Duty virus to sell players' card details
  • Hackers behind Flashback click fraud campaign haven't been paid
  • Facebook sued for $15 billion over alleged privacy infractions
  • Business trips abroad could endanger your data
  • White House Security Czar Howard Schmidt Retiring
  • Twitter Implements Do Not Track
  • Bribery Case at Wal-Mart May Widen
  • Met Police to extract suspects' mobile phone data
  • UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data
  • IMAGiNE Member Pleads Guilty to Criminal Copyright Infringement
  • HULK DDoS Tool Smash Web Server, Server Fall Down
  • GMU Prof Teaches How To Falsify Wikipedia and Get Caught
  • Matching Personalities to Jobs - Author Identifies Ideal Personality Types for Security Roles
  • Advice on HITECH Stage 2 Preparation - Steps Organizations Can Take to Get Ready
  • Howard Schmidt's Legacy: In His Words - Interviewing the Retiring Cybersecurity Coordinator
  • The Business Case for Continuity Planning - Small, Mid-Size Enterprises Especially Need to Develop Strategy
  • 4 Security Priorities for Banks - Gartner's Chuvakin on Mobile, Cloud, Hacktivist Attacks
  • Putting SCADA Protection on the Radar
  • AusCERT 2012: Kaspersky says cyber-attacks could take us back to the pre-electric era
  • Infoglide And BusinessForensics Partner For Fraud, Risk Management Solutions
  • Anonymous attacks Indian government websites
  • Victorian in Sydney over credit card fraud
  • Europe's other power crisis:Energy
  • Aussie online banking security costs more than it saves
  • Keeping India safe in cyberspace
  • Australia, US sign security deal in bid to tackle cyber threats
  • Worm targets Facebook users via PMs
  • Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework updated
  • Spam with malicious attachments rising
  • How Stuxnet Came Back to Haunt the U.S.
  • UK now a top ten nation for hacking traffic, logs show
  • KSE Site Hacked On Day Of Launching
  • Safeguarding intellectual property from loss
  • HP, CSC and EMC open cybersecurity research centre
  • Development of international norms in cyber warfare - a small countrys perspective
  • Call of Duty Trojan horse creator ends up in jail, after drunken college raid
  • Backups are good - but don't forget to check your backups work [VIDEO]
  • Cyber romance scams cost US victims $50 million in 2011
  • How To Deal with a Security Incident
  • UK defence industry needs cybersecurity 'kitemarks', says Labour shadow minister



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    SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

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  • Infocon: green
  • PHP 5.4 Remote Exploit PoC in the wild, (Sat, May 19th)
  • ZTE Score M Android Phone backdoor, (Fri, May 18th)
  • ISC StormCast for Friday, May 18th 2012 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2545, (Fri, May 18th)
  • ISC Feature of the Week: Tools->Information Gathering, (Thu, May 17th)
  • New IPv6 Video: IPv6 Router Advertisements https://isc.sans.edu/ipv6videos, (Thu, May 17th)
  • Do Firewalls make sense?, (Thu, May 17th)
  • ISC StormCast for Thursday, May 17th 2012 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2542, (Thu, May 17th)
  • Reserved IP Address Space Reminder, (Wed, May 16th)
  • Avira Antivirus false positives http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=144875, (Wed, May 16th)
  • New Version of Google Chrome released (19.0.1084.46) , (Wed, May 16th)

    (C) SANS Institute 2012






  • SRI Antivirus Detection Rankings

    Antivirus Performance from OITC


    PlanetData - Cyber Security

    PlanetData

  • GSN 2012 Awards Program Open For Entries
  • IC3 Warns of Cyber Crime and Online Scams
  • Do Hackers Now See Macs As Targets?
  • Iranian Oil Industry Suffers Cyber Attack
  • FBI Warns Of DNS Changer Virus
  • Online "Farmer's Market" Dealing Drugs Shutdown
  • Governments Under Attack By Anonymous
  • Nasty Flashback Trojan Infecting Macs
  • Anonymous Attacks Pope's Visit
  • Cyber Security Lab To Open In Australia



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    SecurityTracker Vulnerability Headlines
  • Symantec Web Gateway Bugs Let Remote Users View/Upload/Delete Files, Execute Arbitrary Commands, and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
  • Sudo Netmask Error Lets Remote Authenticated Users Bypass Host Access Controls
  • RealPlayer Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
  • HP Business Service Management Default JBOSS Configuration Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
  • OpenVMS ACMELOGIN Bug Lets Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges


  • MSRC
  • Microsoft security updates and the Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework
  • May 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast, Slide Deck, and Q&A
  • Bulletin Management Process and the May 2012 Bulletins
  • MAPP Update: Taking Action to Decrease Risk of Information Disclosure
  • Advanced Notification Service for May 2012 Security Bulletin Release
  • April 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast and Q&A
  • Windows XP and Office 2003 countdown to end of support, and the April 2012 bulletins
  • Advance Notification Service for April 2012 security bulletin release
  • BlueHat Prize: And now the fun begins
  • 6...5...4...3...2...
  • March 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast and Q&A
  • Proof-of-Concept Code available for MS12-020
  • Strength, flexibility and the March 2012 security bulletins
  • March 2012 ANS
  • February 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast and Q&A
  • MSRC looks back at ten years, and the February 2012 bulletins
  • ANS for February 2012, and some notes on SDL
  • January 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A
  • January 2012 Security Bulletins Released
  • January 2012 ANS is released
  • December 2011 Out-Of-Band Bulletin Release: Q&A and Webcast
  • Microsoft releases MS11-100 for Security Advisory 2659883
  • Advanced Notification for out-of-band release to address Security Advisory 2659883
  • Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2659883, offers workaround for industry-wide issue
  • December 2011 Bulletin Release Q&A and Slide Deck



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