By Bob Gourley In what could be a very virtuous trend, four of the cyber security industry’s leading tech vendors (Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and Symantec) have established a consortium focused on the furtherance of the art and science of cyber threat intelligence. This alliance, started...
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. If you are still running Android 2.3, watch out for the bad guys! – Kaspersky Labs has given a failing grade to Google for insecurities in Android 2.3. They found that the Trojan SMS is the leading malware developed for the OS...
Friends and associates at Kyrus (Kyrus-Tech.com) recently announced they will be hosting Practical ARM Exploitation Course. This is the extremely popular course maintained by Stephen C. Lawler and Stephen A. Ridley. Exploitation is harder and a bit more nuanced today than it was in the past wi...
General Alexander asked for lawmakers to pass the cybersecurity act to better protect our networks. SQL Injection attacks rose 69% in Q2 according to cloud provider, FireHost. They saw almost 470k attacks in this quarter (as opposed to 277k attacks in Q1. The senior security engineer believes this i...
Friend and writer Noah Shachtman has produced a nice piece for Wired Magazine titled “Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals” Most all in the cyber security and national security communities have heard about Kaspersky and I imagine you have familiarity with his ...
Todd Park, previously the CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been named the new United States Chief Technology Officer. More here. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, which gathers and posts oil and natural-gas supply statistics used by commodity traders, announce...
The U.S. and U.K. are relatively well prepared for cyber attacks, compared to many other developed nations, but everyone has more work to do, according to a new cyber security study from McAfee and Security & Defence Agenda (SDA)....
via Washington Times This week, the group – apparently less than a dozen strong – posted hundreds of internal documents stolen from the Arizona State Police computer network, including the home addresses of several officers and their families. Cybersecurity experts tell The Washington Ti...