IDG News Service - Security researcher Felix "FX" Lindner has a more compelling reason to steer clear of routers from Huawei Technologies than fears about its ownership. While the company blasted for its opaque relationship with China's ...
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"The number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
Tags: Cyberwarfare, Trend and Risk Report., IBM, US
The US is collecting huge amounts of data on its citizens, according to former National Security Agency (NSA) official Bill Binney. While at the NSA, Binney led the development of secret software he now believes is being used to carry out ...
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Computerworld-Gen.Keith B.Alexander,the director of the National Security Agency,asked hackers for help securing cyberspace when he spoke at the Defcon conference late last month. "This is the world's best cybersecurity community,"said ...
Tags: Defcon conference, secure cyberspace, Hackers, NSA
Security researcher Jonathan Brossard created a proof-of-concept hardware backdoor called Rakshasa that replaces a computer's BIOS (Basic Input Output System) and can compromise the operating system at boot time without leaving traces on ...
Tags: Hardware, Basic Input Output System, computer technology, Brossard
Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) and WPA2-Enterprise (Wireless Protected Access) sessions that use MS-CHAPv2 ...
Tags: Microsoft, PPTP, US, Cyberwarfare
National Security Agency Director General Keith B. Alexander addressed the attendees of the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Friday and asked for their help to secure cyberspace. "This is the world's best cybersecurity community," ...
Tags: Cyberwarfare, US, cyberspace security, NSA
Facebook is to expand its reward scheme for hackers who uncover vulnerabilities in its products to include network vulnerabilities. Details of the expanded scheme are to be announced this week at the DefCon Hacking Conference in Las ...
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A Black Hat volunteer mistakenly sent to 7,500 conference goers a password-reset email that was initially thought to be a phishing attempt. Organizers of the security conference that started Saturday in Las Vegas, quickly released a ...
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