A warning has been issued by the developers of ProFTPD, the popular FTP server software, about a compromise of the main distribution server of the software project that resulted in attackers exchanging the offered source files for ProFTPD 1.3.3c with a version containing a backdoor. It...
The federal government has launched a major effort to make governmental IT system safer, improve safeguards and raise awareness. Canada's cyber security strategy, announced in last spring's budget, will cost $90-million over five years and $18-million in ongoing funding. It aims to secure federal computer systems and join other governments...
Thieves in New Hampshire used Facebook Places to learn when homeowners were out of the house to then plan and execute their break-ins. According to NECN, police busted a burglary ring in Nashua, NH accused of more than 50 break-ins and seized $100,000 in stolen property....
IBM has made Firefox the company's default Web browser. According to IBM's vice president of Linux and open source software, company-wide Firefox adoption will accelerate IBM's shift to cloud computing. Via: ars technica ...
Canada Post is warning its customers of a fraudulent email disguised as a delivery notification identifying itself as having been sent from Canada Post. The email states that Canada Post is trying to deliver a package and provides further directions for the recipient to open...
A Bank of America employee has been charged with installing malware on ATMs in North Carolina. The employee, who was a member of the bank's IT staff, was able to withdraw cash without leaving transaction records from the ATMs over the course of 7 months...
Students at the University of Cambridge have discovered a new flaw that is compromised by using a MITM attack that deceives a terminal in to thinking that a card's PIN is correct irregardless of what number is provided for the PIN. The attack uses an electronic...
From ISPreview: WeFi, a free wireless Wi-Fi broadband Hotspot locator website with a database of 47,000,000 access points around the world, has revealed that 40% of Hotspots in the USA are unlocked and do not require a security password. This compares with 25% in Europe. According to...
Scientists are set to unveil a lightweight system they say makes an operating system significantly more resistant to rootkits without degrading its performance. The hypervisor-based system is dubbed HookSafe, and it works by relocating kernel hooks in a guest OS to a dedicated page-aligned memory...
The release of OpenBSD 4.6 was released on Sunday. Highlights of the new release include: Simplified installation process. Improved documentation and man pages. New versions of packages in ports (package management system). Over 5800 packages in total. Hardware driver updates: sensors, chipsets, video devices etc. New drivers, functionality and...