By ShannonPerry The recently discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer raised quite an uproar with the media and techies in April. With the hole, hackers have accessed sensitive information of defense companies and financial institutions. Reacting to the vulnerability, the Department of Homeland...
By ShannonPerry Since the bug became public knowledge in early April, the Heartbleed vulnerability has captured media headlines across the U.S. The hole existed in OpenSSL, an open-source program used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The bug affected some of the world’s most popular sites, in...
A group of researchers has discovered serious security holes in six top industrial control systems used in critical infrastructure and manufacturing facilities and, thanks to exploit modules they released on Thursday, have also made it easy for hackers to attack the systems before they’re patched ...
A design flaw in the WiFi protected setup (WPS) specification for the PIN authentication used by many wireless routers “significantly” reduces the time required to launch a brute force attack against the PIN because the flaw allows an attacker to know when the first half of the eight digit PIN i...
Adobe today confirmed that an unpatched, or zero-day, vulnerability in Adobe Reader is being exploited by criminals. Those attacks may have been aimed at defense contractors. Adobe promised to patch the bug in the Windows edition of Reader and Acrobat 9 no later than the end of next week. Tuesday,...
via National Defense Magazine A Department of Homeland Security administered database where reports on cyber-intrusions, and potential network security vulnerabilities are collected, analyzed and pushed out to local and state governments is itself vulnerable to internal and external attack, the depa...
via Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Windows pros would do well to take note of a predominant trend in the realm of IT security as the week begins: e-mail accounts as both targets and attack vectors. Adobe announced that a recently patched vulnerability in its flash player on Sunday is stil...
via Fierce Government IT Cybersecurity is about assessing risk, not just vulnerabilities, and often a federal agencies’ biggest risks lie within the workforce, according to a National Security Agency official. “[We often] put too much in the hands of under-loved, under-paid, under-equipp...