Social Engineering Framework and Metasploit Unleashed
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Social-networking sites short on security [From Brief: Social-networking sites short on security]
[From Facebook App Flaws Create Trojan Download Risk ]
[From Cyber Threats Adopting New Tactics]
Apple missed a golden opportunity to lock down Snow Leopard when it again failed to implement fully a security technology that Microsoft perfected nearly three years ago in Windows Vista, noted Mac researcher Charlie Miller said today. Dubbed ASLR, for address space layout randomization, the technology randomly assigns data to memory to make it tougher [...]
[From Neighbourhood Watch Strategy May Fight Web 2.0 Threats ]
[From Five Top Cybersecurity Risks ]
[From Cyberdefenses Are Misdirected, Report Says ]
[From Steganography Meets VoIP In Hacker World ]
Wiretapping technology has grown increasingly sophisticated since the police first began to utilize it as a surveillance tool in the 1890s. What once entailed simply putting clips on wires has now evolved into building wiretapping capabilities directly into communications infrastructures (at the government’s behest). In a modern society, where surveillance is often touted as a [...]
Here’s a real copy of an American citizen’s DHS Travel Record, retrieved from the US Customs and Border Patrol’s Automated Targeting System and obtained through a FOIA/Privacy Act request. The document reveals that the DHS is storing: the traveler’s credit card number and expiration; IP addresses used to make Web travel reservations; hotel information and [...]
Many people reveal way too much personal information on social networking sites–something that can easily lead to identity theft or unwanted attention from employers etc. Technology Review has a story about several tools cryptographic tools that can be used to hide your activity on Facebook, from both untrusted users and from Facebook itself. Urs Hengartner, [...]
Air Force Establishes ‘Reduced’ Cyber-War Command
Cyber Rules of Engagement – Hot Pursuit
Military May Ban Twitter, Facebook as Security ‘Headaches’
StratCom wants DoD cyber units joined The Launching of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) Cyber command in urgent need of strategy Cyber Can Kill SAMs
Hugh Pickens writes “Former CIA counterterrorism analyst Stephen Lee has an interesting article in the Examiner asserting that the National Security Agency is ‘a secretive, hidebound culture incapable of keeping up with innovation,’ with a history of disregard for privacy and civil liberties. Lee says that for most of its sixty-year history, the NSA has [...]
PRC’s Kylin secure OS: Part of cyber-war or cyber-security?
Gen. Kevin Chilton, the head of STRATCOM, just declared that the Law of Armed Conflict will apply to cyberwar, and that the US won’t rule out conventional (read: kinetic) responses to cyber-attacks. This means that we consider state-supported ‘hackers’ to be subject to the Geneva Conventions and Customary International Law, including the rules of proportionality [...]
U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses
