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Fahmida Y. Rashid / SecurityWeek:
U.S. Senators Introduce ‘Deter Cyber Theft Act’ to Help Protect Trade Secrets   —  A bi-partisan group of Senators introduced a new bill to fight cyber-espionage and intellectual property theft by foreign countries.  —  The proposed “Deter Cyber Theft Act” aims to block products …
May 13, 2013, 5:05 AMIn context
Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Google Implements DNSSEC Validation for Public DNS   —  Google on Tuesday announced that it now fully supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) validation on its Google Public DNS resolvers.  —  Previously, the search giant accepted and forwarded DNSSEC-formatted messages but didn't actually perform validation.
Mar 19, 2013, 8:15 PMIn context
Steve Ragan / SecurityWeek:
Linux Rootkit Found Launching iFrame Injection Attacks   —  Last week, someone posted a module to the Full Disclosure mailing list, which turned out to be a rootkit for Linux.  Experts examined it, and concluded that if anything, it's a unique piece of malware, in addition to it being a credible risk to LAMPP deployments.
Nov 20, 2012, 8:55 AMIn context
Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Tech Giants Form Cyber Security Research Alliance   —  An assembly of tech giants including AMD, Honeywell, Intel, Lockheed Martin, and RSA, has come together to form the “Cyber Security Research Alliance”, a consortium that will focus on the “grand challenges” for cyber security and next generation technologies.
Oct 25, 2012, 12:55 AMIn context
AFP:
Russia Unveils Secure “Almost Android” Tablet To Keep Data Away From Google   —  It seems that Russia's defense ministry has little faith in Google's operating systems: it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android.
Sep 2, 2012, 4:50 AMIn context
Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Apple Yanks Privacy App From The App Store   —  Apple Pulls Bitdefender's ‘Clueful’ Privacy App From The App Store  —  Back in May of this year, Internet security firm Bitdefender launched an App and service designed to help iOS users get a grip on what the apps installed on their mobile devices may be up to.
Jul 20, 2012, 6:50 AMIn context
Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Microsoft Certificate Was Used to Sign “Flame” Malware   —  Microsoft: Techniques Used By Flame Could Be Used By Less Sophisticated Attackers to Launch Widespread Attacks  —  On Sunday, Microsoft reached out to customers and notified the public that it had discovered unauthorized digital certificates that …
Jun 4, 2012, 7:40 AMIn context
Steve Ragan / SecurityWeek:
Official Fix for PHP Flaw Easily Bypassed, Researchers Say   —  On Wednesday, a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP was accidently exposed to the Web, prompting fears that it may be used to target vulnerable websites on a massive scale.  The bug itself was traced back to 2004, and came to light during a recent CTF competition.
May 5, 2012, 7:15 AMIn context
Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Symantec Confirms Hackers Accessed Source Code of Two Enterprise Security Products   —  On Thursday evening, SecurityWeek and other news outlets reported on news that hackers claimed to have accessed the source code to an unspecified version of Symantec's Norton Antivirus product.
Jan 6, 2012, 8:45 AMIn context
Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Sony Hires Former U.S. Homeland Security Official Philip Reitinger as CISO   —  In response to a cyber attack that resulted in the personal information of more than 100 Million customers falling into the hands of hackers, Sony today announced that it has hired Philip R. Reitinger …
Sep 6, 2011, 1:40 PMIn context

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