The U.S. government plans to establish a national identity theft law enforcement center and create a multiyear public education campaign about the dangers of ID theft, as part of a series of recommendations released by a task force Monday. The President’s Identity Theft Task Force, created by George Bush in May 2006, also called for [...]
In the pit Two former Ferrari engineers accused of stealing trade secrets have been convicted of industrial espionage.… Tag:aim, ani, bill subject, caller id data, caller id spoofing, committee head, development lifecycle, financial fraud, gurus, lessons learned, microsofts, postmortem, sdl, security development, senate floor, senate judiciary committee, spoof, violators, voice vote vulnerability Read more…
nipper processes network device configuration files, performs a security audit and outputs a security report with recommendations and a configuration report. nipper currently supports Cisco IOS, PIX, ASA, FWSM, NMP, CatOS and Juniper NetScreen devices. Tag:accused, fisma, gary mckinnon, hackers, hardware platforms, industry international, information security management, infosec, international standards, management act, NIST, pentagon, pops, [...]
AS/400 auditing toolkit has been released as a node of vulnerabilityassessment’s PTF project. Initial beta release – Added Remote tests (Nabil OUCHN, Thanks to Laurent Chouraki who provided us with a remote connection to his AS/400 servers) – Added local tests (Nabil OUCHN) Special thanks to Kev Orrey from Vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk for adding this toolkit to [...]
The practice of holding websites hostage under the threat of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks is declining, according to security researchers at Symantec. DoS attacks are carried out by botnet operators using armies of remotely controlled PCs to flood a site with traffic and information requests. The attacks can cause sites and web services to run slowly [...]