Archive for 2013
Def Con wants U.S. feds out in light of Snowden issues
Def Con, the world famous annual hacking convention, has asked the U.S. government to back off this year. In its 21-year-long run, the convention has never requested this, but Edward Snowden’s recent leaks have are said to have made some of the information security community uncomfortable with its attendance.
Read MoreFacebook to update old methods of crypto to combat NSA spying
Following the turmoil brought on by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, there has been a huge emphasis on data privacy and information security. To combat the public’s concerns, insiders say Facebook is working on a security policy that would make it harder for the government to access users’ data.
Read MoreOWASP 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.”
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