 The Nation, Pakistan |
Pakistani security forces arrest 15 suspects
Xinhua ISLAMABAD, July 30 (Xinhua) — Pakistan's security forces continued search and clearance operations in Swat and Malakand in the country's northwest, … Forces continue clearance in last 24 hours: ISPR Four terrorists killed, 23 held in Swat, Malakand Pakistani army kills 2 terrorists, arrests 25 in operations |
 Voice of America |
US threatens Eritrea over Somalia
BBC News Ms Rice said the nation was running out of time to avoid strict measures from the Security Council. "There is a very short window for Eritrea to signal … US's UN envoy warns Eritrea over Somalia rebels US warns Eritrea over activity in Somalia UN Ambassador Says US Committed to Peacekeeping |
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced that it will, for the third time, push back the enforcement deadline of the Red Flags Rule, which requires financial institutions and creditors to develop identity theft prevention programs. The new enforcement deadline is Nov. 1. In addition, the FTC will ramp up its efforts to educate small businesses about how to comply because many are still confused about their obligations, the FTC said. — AM
 BBC News |
Tajik summit to tackle security
BBC News Tajikistan is hosting a regional security summit amid fears the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan may be spreading into Central Asia. … Presidents meet for security summit in Tajikistan Pakistan urged to step up Central Asia security ties Regional Presidents Assemble For C. Asia Security Talks |
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Funding boost to homes security
Sunderland Echo Home Office minister Alan Campbell was given a lesson in household security during a visit to a project which is making hundreds of homes … Vulnerable Bradford people to get help Lock up n' leave |
The Blackhat security conference kicked off today and in true fashion several allegedly zero-day exploits and other nastiness were revealed by security researchers. Several of today’s security talks at Blackhat 2009 here in Vegas focused on newly found security vulnerabilities in the digital certificate controlled SSL encryption process as it exists today. SSL is the cryptographic technology used…
More than 150,000 computers being infected every day, says McAfee.
Rich, Zach and Martin gather to review the talks we’ve seen today, the people who we’ve talked to and some of the interesting things we’ve seen so far at Black Hat. It’s not even the end of the first day yet and we’re all exhausted, yet there’s still the first night of parties to go explore. We’re planning on doing the wrap-ups every day through Sunday.
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Researchers at Black Hat say complex interoperability flaws affect browser plug-ins that transmit data between different components of an OS. The holes could be exploited to gain access to a system.
Complex interoperability vulnerabilities affect browser plug-ins and other components that transmit data between different components of an operating system. The serious holes could be exploited to execute malicious code and gain access to a system.
Researcher Dan Kaminsky returned to Black Hat with new research on X.509 certificates, explaining an attack method that could enable malicious hackers to spoof legitimate SSL certificates..
Researcher Dan Kaminsky returns to Black Hat with new research on X.509 certificates and explains a hacking method that enables him to spoof legitimate SSL certificates.
Criminal attacks top the lists of threats facing organisations in the coming
two years.
Also found: a listing of the locations of all US nuclear facilities and a document containing the personal information of hundreds of thousands of US military members.
 Telegraph.co.uk |
Computer hackers attack M15 website
The Press Association The security breach could also have enabled the hackers to download viruses onto the machines of anyone using the British intelligence services website, … MI5 website breached by hacker MI5 website hacked MI5 website hacked |
At the BlackHat Conference on July 29, Dan Kaminsky from IOActive talked about new collision attacks against the global X.509 CA infrastructure. Here’s a brief vendor view about this issue with some background about the effort that went in over the last few weeks by the various vendors affected by the issue from the time Dan identified it, and the steps EMC/ RSA is taking to remediate the impact across its products and protect its customers.
This week Symantec announced a new offering the Cyber Threat Analyst Program. CTAP embeds an analyst in your company and uses the analyst’s experience with Symantec’s global inforamation services and applies it your unique environment. This is not an offering for the SMB market, but something that enterprises and government entities will be using. Tim explains this offering and gives a little of his own opinions on what he’s seen at Black Hat so far.
Black Hat Microcast 1 – Tim Gallo, Symantec on CTAP
Metcalfe’s Law is fatally flawed says Beckstrom.
CSOs complain of wasting time on useless jobs.
CSOs complain of wasting time on useless jobs.