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Intel Lab To Study Computer, Human Interaction
The interaction and experience research division will focus on natural interfaces, such as touch, gesture and voice.
Have A Secure Summer Vacation
With summer now here officially, many of you are most likely planning vacations, and you probably want to be able to connect to the Internet during your vacation. But how do you do this securely?
The Secret Life Of Teens Online
New McAfee report shows teenagers think they're safe online, but their actions demonstrate otherwise
FairPoint Landline Service Plan Rejected
The Vermont Public Service Board rejected Fairpoint's plan to provide service to former Verizon landline customers.
Which Platform Is Safer: Android, Blackberry, or iPhone?
With the hand-held platform battle over market share heating up, more people are wondering just which platforms may be safer from attackers and snoops.
Google Search Partially Blocked In China
The company isn't prepared to speculate about whether the technical issues are related to its ongoing tension with the Chinese government.
Protecting SSH From The Masses
SSH brute-force attacks are not uncommon against computer systems sitting on public IP addresses. Script kiddies and botnet-infected systems are scanning the Internet looking for low-hanging fruit (think: weak passwords) to leverage for additional attacks, website defacements, or attack-tool storage.
Lack Of Security Focus Puts SMBs In Harm's Way
Small and midsize businesses can be easier to secure than larger enterprises, but few have traditionally made the effort
Dark Reading Launches New Tech Center On Security For Small And Midsize Enterprises
Today Dark Reading launches a new feature: the SMB Security Tech Center, a subsite of Dark Reading devoted to bringing you news, insight, and in-depth reporting on the topic of data security in small and midsize businesses.
Keeping Data Forever vs. Data Retention
Keeping data forever vs. data retention is going to become an increasingly fierce battle. In the past data retention strategies always won but as we discussed in our first entry in the series the technology is now available to store data forever and as we discussed in the second entry the technology is there to find it when you need it.
Network Intercept Announces Free Malware And Site Scanning For Websites
First 10,000 websites to sign up will receive free protection service
The Failure Of Cryptography To Secure Modern Networks
For a while now, I've pointed out that cryptography is singularly ill-suited to solve the major network security problems of today: denial-of-service attacks, website defacement, theft of credit card numbers, identity theft, viruses and worms, DNS attacks, network penetration, and so on.
Hulu Launches Premium Video Subscription Service
Hulu Plus subscribers will have access to full seasons of all shows currently offered by the video site and access shows via an Apple iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch app.
Busted Alleged Russian Spies Used Steganography To Conceal Communications
'Deep-cover' Russian intelligence agents hid electronic messages behind computer images
No PDF Updates Anymore--Anyone Interested?
Adobe has published its security updates for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat.
11 Alleged Russian Secret Agents Charged
The complaints filed against the alleged spies reveal a sophisticated high-tech investigation.
Researchers Report Vulnerability In Microsoft Office 2010
European researchers say they've discovered a flaw in Excel 2010, and another possible bug in Word 2010
Google China Redirection To End
Chinese authorities don't appreciate Google's practice of sending searchers in China to its uncensored Hong Kong search site.
Security Managers Report Weak Threat Defenses
Many organizations don't realize when they're being hit by zero-day and other advanced attacks, and they aren't responding effectively either, the Ponemon Institute reports.
Novell Delivers Log Management Software Appliance
Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.1 integrates with Novell Sentinel and the Novell Identity Management suite
Hackers Busted In Online Poker Cheats
Korean police nabbed 33 hackers who were using bots to cheat online poker players from November 2009 through May of this year.
Google Android Market Under Fire
A prominent programmer's call for Google to improve its Android Market is echoed by Android users and developers.
Obama Plans To Double Available Wireless Spectrum
The administration's proposal calls for making 500 megahertz of spectrum available over the next 10 years.
White House Cybersecurity Czar Unveils National Strategy For Trusted Online Identity
Devil's in the details for Obama administration's draft plan for eliminating passwords and advancing authentication, security expert say
Google Admitted To Colorado, Iowa Schools
Savings and availability from anywhere figure into educators' interest, Google says.
The Blurred Line Between Business And Personal Online Use
IDC-Unisys report shows enterprises struggling to keep up with workers adopting smartphones, social media, other consumer technologies for both home and work use
Supreme Court Patent Ruling Avoids Tough Issues
Rejecting the Bilski business method patent claim, the Supreme Court has pleased defenders of the status quo and frustrated those seeking patent reform.
What's Apple Doing With Geolocation Data?
Congressmen ask for explanation about alterations in the company's privacy policy
Android, iPhone, "Kill Switch" Capabilities
The recent security related events surrounding Google Android highlights why users must exercise constant vigilance in the applications they choose to install on their handsets, and raises questions about the ability for vendors to reach into your handset to remove potentially nasty software.
PayPal Allows Apps To Accept Payment
Guest Payments, part of the PayPal Adaptive Payments API, allows developers to offer direct credit card payment in applications with requiring PayPal membership.
FTC Security Smackdown And Twitter's Hollow Excuses
The social networking site Twitter has settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission regarding charges that it failed to properly safeguard the data of its users.
Prioritizing And Fixing Security Vulnerabilities: A Reader's Guide
You've done your vuln scanning and found some flaws. What do you do now?
Tech Insight: Three Steps To Better Database Security
Protecting your most sensitive data could involve discovery and auditing, as well as security
Congressmen Ask Apple To Explain Privacy Policy Changes
Concerns over reports suggesting Apple is collecting and sharing geo-location data of iPhone and iPad users prompted the request sent to Steve Jobs.
White House Releases Draft Digital Identity Strategy
Rather than mandating a national online ID, the proposed strategy urges development of secure, standard, interoperable framework for online transactions.
What Role For Intrusion Prevention?
The network intrusion prevention system isn't like the firewall--it's not a must-have security tool at most big companies.
There's No (New) Internet Kill Switch
The Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill passed out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday to await consideration by the full Senate. But not everyone is satisfied with what it says.
The Types Of SSD Cache
In our last entry we discussed the value of using solid state disk (SSD) as a cache, which provides a simpler on-ramp to the accelerated world of SSD. With SSD cache there are no or limited changes needed to applications and using SSD as a cache does not require a large capacity investment in the more premium priced technology.
WiFi Hacker Indicted In Veep Threat
A Minnesota man is accused of sending threatening e-mail to Vice President Biden through his neighbor's WiFi network.
FTC Slaps Twitter Down Hard For Lax Security, Privacy Violations
Social networking site's claims will be scrutinized for 20 years; security program will be audited for 10 years
Network Security Threats Increasing
IT managers say mounting security risks combined with insufficient budgeting and staffing puts their organizations in danger, according to a netForensics study.
Comodo Warns Of VeriSign SSL Vulnerability
VeriSign said the supposed certificate request flaw is actually a feature and accused Comodo of not following standard vulnerability disclosure guidelines.
China Unicom To Launch App Store
Unistore will offer mobile apps for smartphones and tablet computers.
China Tightens Online Gaming Regulations
The Ministry of Culture's Interim Measures for Internet Games in an attempt to protect minors from "unwholesome" content.
White House Preparing National Online ID Plan
The proposed system for authenticating people, organizations and infrastructure on the web at the transactional level will require an identity ecosystem.
Twitter, Feds Settle Security Charges
Twitter must establish and maintain a "comprehensive information security program" and allow third-party review of the program biannually for the 10 years.
Report: Two-Thirds Of Android Apps 'Suspicious'
Google, however, says SMobile Systems' report has problems
Kraken Botnet Making A Resurgence, Researcher Says
Dismantled in 2009, once-powerful botnet is up to half its former size
iPhone iOS 4 Security
Apple iPhone hit the streets today. I happened to be one of the lucky few who had his delivered by FedEx on Wednesday. So I had some time to kick around with it a bit, and took a look at its (lack) of new security features.
AT&T iPad Breaches Are About App Security, Not Mobile Devices, Experts Say
Gaffes offer lessons for IT security organizations, according to analysts
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From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2018-10839
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From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2018-10839
PUBLISHED: 2018-10-16
Qemu emulator <= 3.0.0 built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.
CVE-2018-13399PUBLISHED: 2018-10-16
The Microsoft Windows Installer for Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.6.1 allows local attackers to escalate privileges because of weak permissions on the installation directory.
CVE-2018-18381PUBLISHED: 2018-10-16
Z-BlogPHP 1.5.2.1935 (Zero) has a stored XSS Vulnerability in zb_system/function/c_system_admin.php via the Content-Type header during the uploading of image attachments.
CVE-2018-18382PUBLISHED: 2018-10-16
Advanced HRM 1.6 allows Remote Code Execution via PHP code in a .php file to the user/update-user-avatar URI, which can be accessed through an "Update Profile" "Change Picture" (aka user/edit-profile) action.
CVE-2018-18374PUBLISHED: 2018-10-16
XSS exists in the MetInfo 6.1.2 admin/index.php page via the anyid parameter.
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