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OWASP release 2013’s Top 10
Every three years, the OWASP Top 10 is released, publicizing the most serious web application security vulnerabilities. Formed in 2001, the Open Web Application Security Project is a not-for-profit security organization to “dedicated to enabling organizations to conceive, develop, acquire, operate, and maintain applications that can be trusted.”
Read MoreCould The NSA Use Our Mobile Devices To Spy On Us
UK newspaper The Guardian recently broke a story that the NSA has been empowered by a secret order issued by the foreign intelligence court directing Verizon Communications, a mobile phone provider with 98.9 million wireless customers to turn over all its call records for a three-month period. The Washington Post closely followed this article suggesting that the…
Read MoreChinese hackers reach ‘breathtaking’ heights
As a result of Chinese hackers’ latest cyber-attack, designs of over two dozen highly specialized U.S. weapons systems were breached.
Read MoreWatchful journalists called ‘hackers’ for discovering security flaws
What happens when a journalist going about his daily job discovers sensitive information sprawled open on the World Wide Web? Ask Isaac Wolf, a reporter for Scripps Howard News Service, who was conducting a standard Google search when he came across thousands of Social Security numbers and other private records in full public display.
Read MoreLulzSec hacktivists given longest sentence ever for hacking
LulzSec, famed British hacktivist collective, have been dealt the longest jail sentences ever for hacking. The group of young hackers has been behind several advanced cyberattacks on institutions across various sectors.
Read MoreLivingSocial hack results in 50 million compromised user accounts
LivingSocial, the daily deals site partially owned by Amazon, disclosed Friday that they had suffered a serious cyber attack. CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy sent an email to his employees to admit the resulting “unauthorized access to some customer data” and that they were “actively working with law enforcement to investigate this issue.”
Read MoreSocial media’s role in Boston Marathon story development
Last week the entire country hovered around computers, tablets and smartphones for minute-by-minute news, as well as public commentary, in the development of the Boston Marathon story. But what role did it have in the capture of suspects, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
Read MoreTiro Security participating in Presidio 10K to aid Wounded Warrior Project
Tiro Security founders Kris Rides and Rob Pop are dedicated to developing a sense of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and charity within the organization in order to ensure the company’s success benefits others as well. For 2013, Tiro Security has chosen to support the Wounded Warrior Project, with a vision “to foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation’s history.”
Read MoreApple’s iMessage is DEA Disaster
Apple’s iMessage app appears to be giving the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency real problems because they are not able to trace and track text message conversations lie conventional SMS. When Apple’s iMessage was announced in mid-2011, Cupertino said it would use “secure end-to-end encryption” and sure enough messages sent between two Apple devices are encrypted communication and cannot be intercepted. iMessage protocol is actually on Apple push notifications (APNS) – a proprietary protocol. An…
Read MoreMobile Devices Come Under US Military Scrutiny
At the end of March the Inspector General released a report on the effects of BYOD (bring your own device) on the U.S. military. The findings were a little worrying as the Military lacked some of the basic guidelines that many business have in place. The following points are from the reports findings: Mobile devices were…
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