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Slideware is not a good place to start asessing an intelligence program says OMG Cyber! author Thomas Rid With the wash-up from December’s Snowden leaks still sloshing around the ‘net, The Register decided to discuss how to interpret the leaked documents with Thomas Rid of King’s College London. In November, Rid (Professor of Security Studies) […]

The CIA’s internal watchdog will resign at the end of January, a departure that comes just months after his office found that the spy agency had hacked into computers used by Senate staffers to investigate its Bush-era “enhanced interrogation techniques,” the CIA said Monday. David Buckley will leave the agency on Jan. 31 to “pursue

By Graeme Burton Apple has fixed yet another security flaw in its iCloud service after a new tool called iDict was launched at the start of the year. The tool enables users to conduct dictionary attacks against Apple iCloud users – practically all of the company’s installed base. In a page on the open-source projects

LAS VEGAS — Security cameras aren’t a new product category for D-Link, but the company has just announced an addition to the lineup — the $120 HD Wi-Fi Camera (model number DCS-935L). D-link Wi-Fi The DCS-935L claims to deliver a 720p resolution, a 78-degree horizontal field of view, night vision with a 16-foot range and

Jammed and canned Crypto geek George Chatzisofroniou has published a WiFi social engineering tool used to steal credentials and credit cards from users of secure wireless networks. The administrator at the University of Greece developed the WiFiPhisher tool which sought out and then replicated WPA-protected networks, sans password. The tool, yours for the taking on

A Twitter account affiliated with Anonymous, the infamous hacktivist group, released a list of what they claim to be are 13,000 accounts’ usernames and passwords. These accounts pertain to retail and entertainment services including Amazon, PlayStation, XBox Live, Hulu Plus, and Walmart. The hacked list also includes credit card information: credit card numbers, security codes

Losing the plot – hacking corporate networks States should police corporate cyber-security more toughly—but react to breaches cautiously From The Economist THE cyber-attacks that have emerged in recent weeks have begun to sound like a screenplay. One unknown adversary destroys a German blast furnace by interfering with the computers that control it. An attack by

America was too quick to blame North Korea for the Sony hack From The Economist NORTH KOREA made no secret of its delight when hackers attacked Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio behind “The Interview”, a film that lampoons Kim Jong Un, the world’s youngest and worst head of state. The regime’s propaganda arm crowed that

Infographic: Lessons Learned from Year’s Top Incidents By Jeffrey Roman If the top data breaches of 2014 taught the security world anything, it’s that size and sector don’t matter. All organizations are vulnerable to external attack, and the consequences can derail companies and their leaders’ careers. See Also: POS Security Essentials: How to Prevent Payment

MasterCard have announced their Masters of Code competition – set to prove who’s the best in the business By: Chris Smith Roll up Lizard Squad and Anonymous members, it’s time to put your skills to the test. MasterCard has just announced through a press release that they will be running massive hacker collective competition across