Week in review: LinkedIn privacy misstep, compromised WordPress blogs and what really breaks SSL
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news: Anonymous dumps US law enforcement, Brazil’s Federal Police data, hacks Syrian MOD website …
Cain & Abel 4.9.42 released
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …
DDoS attack disrupts trading on Hong Kong’s stock exchange
The website of Hong Kong’s stock exchange has been hit by a DDoS attack and trading has been suspended as the site in question is used for publishing announcements by …
US officials incessantly targeted with phishing emails
Remember the phishing attack against government officials and political activists that was disrupted by Google in June? Well, it’s far from over. The goal remains the …
Fake CCleaner offered for a small fee
Anything and everything you download from the Internet could be a piece of malware, disguised as a legitimate document or software. GFI has recently spotted a Russian website …
SANS: What works
The SANS European Digital Forensics and Incident Response Summit returns to London on the 21st and 22nd of September. Following the great success of last years inaugural …
HoneyPoint Console 3.50 released
HoneyPoint Console 3.5 gives more capability to the security team to easily drill down for more data and export that data to a CSV file. A more powerful report …
Penetration Tester’s Open Source Toolkit
Great commercial penetration testing tools can be very expensive and sometimes hard to use or of questionable accuracy. This book helps solve both of these problems. The open …
On-demand export compliance solution
Management Dynamics released Export On-Demand 1.2, its export compliance solution for small and medium-sized exporters. The new release provides for enhanced compliance …
LinkedIn mimics Facebook, introduces questionable on-by-default feature
Facebook’s regular introduction of on-by-default features often creates quite a stir when first introduced. The majority of Facebook users isn’t aware of – …
Facebook and the publishing of mobile contacts scare
Facebook users are once again in a tizzy after having been faced with variations of the following message posted by some of their friends. Friends! ALL THE PHONE NUMBERS IN …
Citigroup suffers second data breach in four months
Less than four months after the breach that affected some 200,000 Citigroup customers comes the news that the personal data of 92,000 Citi Cards Japan users has been …