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by Pierluigi Paganini According to an unnamed official at the White House, hackers infiltrated an unclassified network.The Obama Administration has confirmed the incident. An embarrassing incident involved the computer systems of the Obama Administration, according to the media an unclassified computer network used by the US government was infiltrated by hackers. The New York Times reported that an […]

Summary: By default, Internet Explorer on Windows client systems supports SSL version 3.0, the version recently found vulnerable to attack. Now there’s another way to turn it off. By Larry Seltzer for Zero Day Microsoft has released a Fix It to disable the feature which was the subject of the POODLE attack. The Fix It,

Try not to imagine security folk in lycra By John Leyden Security firms are claiming credit for putting the skids under a Chinese cyber-espionage crew thought to have been operating for at least six years. The so-called Axiom Threat Actor Group allegedly victimised pro-democracy non-governmental organisations (NGO) and other groups and individuals that would be

The provider adds cookie-like tokens to alert advertisers to users’ interests. by Robert Lemos Cellular communications provider Verizon Wireless is adding cookie-like tokens to Web requests traveling over its network. These tokens are being used to build a detailed picture of users’ interests and to help clients tailor advertisements, according to researchers and Verizon’s own documentation.

Surprise — the underlying technology matters less to an attack’s success than basic human determination When a potentially major security flaw gets announced, à la SandWorm, Shellshock, and Heartbleed, those of us in the computer security field can’t be sure it’s a “big one” that would attack or compromise the majority of the computers in

Warwick Ashford Google has launched a USB security key as a simpler, stronger alternative to the six-digit,one-time passcodes (OTPs) used by its 2-Step Verification facility. Until now, second-factor authentication has relied on OTPs by text message, but this approach has several challenges, such as when users lose their mobile phone. Hackers have also adapted to

A message from Jim Reavis, Chief Executive Officer of Cloud Security Alliance: Dear CSA Membership, As we enter into our 6th year of operation, we are seeing tremendous growth in enterprise usage of cloud computing. When we started CSA, cloud was often being used as a pilot or prototype for future IT systems. Clearly the

By Paco Hope Apple’s latest operating systems, Mac OS X Yosemite and iOS 8, both transmit your search terms back to Apple by default and it’s difficult to disable. Apple’s latest operating systems, Mac OS X Yosemite and iOS 8, both transmit your search terms back to Apple by default. In fact, it’s quite difficult

By Russell Brandom China got its first official shipments of new iPhones last week, but a new report from web censorship watchdog Great Fire indicates Chinese users may be facing an unpleasant surprise when they try to connect to Apple services at large. As of last night, the Chinese firewall is blocking all local connections

BY ANDY GREENBERG Editors’ note: Updated below with clarifications about Germar’s claims of Anonabox using “custom” hardware. No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required