SOUTHFIELD - Sandeep Chandra, Research Analyst at Ford Motor Company, will demonstrate how to do sidejacking - the most dangerous of all cyber attacks that target personal information, credentials, bank accounts and social networking accounts ? at the May 20 meeting of Motor City ISSA. Victims of these Man-In-The-Middle attacks are completely oblivious to these
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google issued a course correction for the stable version of Chrome on Wednesday. In addition to JavaScript sluggishness and Java plug-in issues introduced in the previous version, Google also made three critical security patches to its browser. The last version of Google Chrome stable, version 4.1.249.1059, was using an incorrect path for
BIRMINGHAM ? Last month's hearing on the nominations of Keith Alexander to head CYBERCOM (and Admiral Winnfield to head NORAD and NORTHCOM) were the first time that operational responsibilities of CYBERCOM have been discussed in a public forum. The Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin (D Michigan) began by posing three scenarios
REDMOND, Wa. - A critical vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows 2000 Server running Windows Media Services will remain unfixed until Microsoft re-releases a patch for it, the company said on Friday. A patch for the hole, which could allow an attacker to take control of a system, was released during Patch Tuesday two weeks ago, CNET
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - It was a tiny mistake with epic consequences, and now the company responsible says it wants to make amends. Last week McAfee released a new version of its security virus software that, mistakenly, included in its list of PC-eating viruses a program that was, in fact, a standard part of the Windows
SAN DIEGO - Two researchers say they have found a way to exploit weaknesses in the mobile telecom system to legally spy on people by figuring out the private cell phone number of anyone they want, tracking their whereabouts, and listening to their voice mail. Independent security researcher Nick DePetrillo and Don Bailey, a security
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft will issue 11 security bulletins in next week's Patch Tuesday to fix 25 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, and Exchange, including two holes for which exploit code is in the wild. Five of the bulletins address critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take control of the computer, five are
SAN FRANCISCO - Smart meters are arriving at homes and causing a stir. Consumers in California and Texas have complained about higher bills due to smart meters not working properly. And for a second time in about a year, researchers discovered holes in the meters. It's enough to make one wonder: are these devices going
SAN JOSE - McAfee and Riverbed Technology have announced a partnership to deliver a comprehensive security and wide area network optimization solution for organizations with remote offices. The one-box solution, which will include a virtual instance of McAfee Firewall Enterprise software running on the Riverbed Steelhead appliance, lets enterprises deliver accelerated data and application access
NEW YORK - In the basement of the HarperCollins building in midtown Manhattan, headquarters of Global Rainmakers, a group of physicists and computer engineers are hunting identity thieves. Their weapon: an agile and inexpensive iris scanner that can identify people at a glance with a nearly zero margin of error. Hector Hoyos, Global Rainmakers' founder,