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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 334 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn official named to cybersecurity post while still under federal investigation comments 1 Comment  
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0108/020708cdam2.htmBy Chris Strohm CongressDaily February 7, 2008 The Homeland Security Department has appointed an official who is under federal investigation to a key position overseeing a program worth hundreds of millions of dollars to secure computer networks across the federal government.The Feb. 1 appointment of Scott Charbo, Homeland Security's chief information officer, to be deputy undersecretary for the national protection and programs directorate, drew immedi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 321 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn hackers break gsas network post protected content downloading web site comments Discuss  
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521958By ABBY D. PHILLIPCrimson Staff WriterFebruary 19, 2008Hackers broke into the Web site of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences this weekend and posted secure information to an online peer-to-peer network.The user kaboom73 uploaded the 125-megabyte filewhich contained the site administrators secure user name and password, a back-up of the sites server, site databases, and contact databasesto the torrent site Pirate Bay on Saturday.At 8 p.m. yesterday even read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 294 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: white house taps tech entrepreneur cyber post comments Discuss  
The Bush administration is planning to tap a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to head a new inter-agency group charged with coordinating the federal government's efforts to protect its computer networks from organized cyber attacks. Sources in the government contracting community said the White House is expected to announce as early as Thursday the selection of Rod A. Beckstrom as a top-level adviser based in the Department of Homeland Security. Beckstrom is an author and entrepreneur best...Please click on the read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 292 days ago
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9899047-7.htmlBy Steven MusilNews BlogMarch 19, 2008A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has been chosen to run the new National Cyber Security Center, an agency charged with coordinating efforts to protect the federal government's computer networks from cyberattacks, according to published reports.Rod Beckstrm, 47, is expected to be appointed to the post Thursday and report directly to Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to reports in read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 292 days ago
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Silicon Valley businessman Rod Beckstrom is tasked with coordinating cyber-security efforts across the federal government....Win a Dell XPS Ultra-Portable Notebook Free Registration to Insight24 Provides Access to Over 5,000 B2B Webcasts and Videos. read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 230 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: interchange unspecified http post request denial service comments Discuss  
A vulnerability has been reported in Interchange, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:http://secunia.com/software_inspector/Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects insecure versions of applications installed * Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied * Assists you in updating your system and applications * Runs through your browser. No ins read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 138 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:07:25 -0500 (CDT)http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2008/08/hacker-court-20.htmlBy Carole Fennelly August 21, 2008Another Black Hat conference for the record books! It.s traditional for me to have a panic attack on the eve of Black Hat, trying to pull the Hacker Court team together to work on our presentation ("Hack MyFace") and swearing I'm never doing this again. This year was even worse: the defendant, Simple Nomad, and the jud read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 99 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: post comments script postcommentsadmin cookie security bypass comments Discuss  
Crackers_Child has reported a vulnerability in Post Comments Script, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.http://secunia.com/Advisories/27991/NOTE: This RSS feed does not include information about updated Secunia advisories. You should note that Secunia on average issues more than 20 updated advisories per day, containing information about exploit and patch availability, new and in depth research, and all other details that are relevant. Learn more about receiv read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 61 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: webbdomain post card sql injection vulnerabilities comments Discuss  
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in WEBBDOMAIN Post Card, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.http://secunia.com/Advisories/32494/NOTE: This RSS feed does not include information about updated Secunia advisories. You should note that Secunia on average issues more than 20 updated advisories per day, containing information about exploit and patch availability, new and in depth research, and all other details that are relevant. Learn more about receiving complet read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 41 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: post affiliate pro umprofstatus sql injection vulnerability comments Discuss  
XaDoS has reported a vulnerability in Post Affiliate Pro, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.http://secunia.com/Advisories/32898/NOTE: This RSS feed does not include information about updated Secunia advisories. You should note that Secunia on average issues more than 20 updated advisories per day, containing information about exploit and patch availability, new and in depth research, and all other details that are relevant. Learn more about receiving complete and cu read more »
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