The new White House cybersecurity strategy makes one message was clear: America will not sit back and watch when attacked in cyberspace. On the contrary, in areas ranging from critical infrastructure to space exploration to intellectual property protection, the USA will respond offensively as well as defensively in cyberspace. The best defense is a good … Read more
Facebook is already facing immense fallout from revelations this morning that a hacker exploited a security flaw in a popular feature of the social network to steal account credentials of as many as 50 million users. The company is now facing a class-action complaint filed on behalf of one California resident, Carla Echavarria, and one … Read more
Știre în curs de actualizare. “Our investigation is still in its early stages. But it’s clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that impacted ‘View As’, a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then … Read more
Un ancien employé de la NSA, qui s’était fait voler par négligence des documents confidentiels sur son ordinateur personnel piraté via l’antivirus russe Kaspersky, a été condamné mardi à 66 mois de prison. Nghia Hoang Pho, 68 ans, était employé d’une unité spécialisée contre la cybercriminalité de la NSA, l’agence de renseignement militaire américaine. Il … Read more
As the national power grid becomes increasingly dependent on computers and data sharing—providing significant benefits for utilities, customers, and communities—it has also become more vulnerable to both physical and cyber threats. While evolving standards with strict enforcement help reduce risks, efforts focused on response and recovery capabilities are just as critical––as is research aimed at … Read more
Nationwide retail giant Target is investigating a data breach potentially involving millions of customer credit and debit card records, multiple reliable sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The sources said the breach appears to have begun on or around Black Friday 2013 — by far the busiest shopping day the year.