Slideshow: Scenes from Black Hat USA 2013
Scenes from this year’s hacking conference in Las Vegas, Nev. include a keynote by General Keith B. Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency and talks by researchers Karsten Nohl and...
View ArticleTwitter OAuth Data Leaked From Third-Party App
An attacker, who may have gotten the information from the database of a third party, claims to have access to the OAuth login tokens and secrets for every Twitter user. He has posted more than 15,000...
View ArticleWith No Facebook Bounty Coming, Researcher Gets $12k Reward From Security...
Like most major Web and software companies, Facebook receives a lot of bug reports. And since the company started its bug bounty program, security researchers have become even more interested in...
View ArticleGoogle, Yahoo, Facebook Request NSL Transparency, Public Hearings from FISA...
Google, Yahoo and Facebook filed amended requests today with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) reiterating their desire to publish numbers on requests for user data related to...
View ArticleNSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN, Contract Shows
The U.S. government–particularly the National Security Agency–are often regarded as having advanced offensive cybersecurity capabilities. But that doesn’t mean that they’re above bringing in a little...
View ArticleIdentity Seller Uses Botnet to Steal from Data Brokers
An online peddler of Social Security numbers, credit and background check reports, and other information valuable to identity thieves appears to have ascertained this data by compromising the systems...
View ArticleSilent Circle Moving Away From NIST Ciphers in Wake of NSA Revelations
The first major domino to fall in the crypto world after the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden began was the decision by Lavabit, a secure email provider, to shut down in August rather than comply with a...
View ArticleResearcher Takes Home $100k Prize From Microsoft For New Attack
One day after announcing that it had paid researchers $ 28,000 for reporting a number of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft revealed that it has written a much bigger check–this one for...
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DDoS, Other Attack Traffic from Asia-Pacific Up in Q2
Three-quarters of the world’s attack traffic emanates from source IP addresses in Indonesia and China, according to Akamai’s latest quarterly State of the Internet report. The report is a deep dive...
View ArticleGoogle Project Shield to Protect Sensitive Sites from DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks have been a problem for nearly as long as the Internet has been a thing, but they’re difficult to visualize and understand on a practical level. A whole bunch of traffic is going to a Web...
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