Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Department of Defense yesterday announced that it would be collaborating with San Francisco-based company, HackerOne for its upcoming challenge to “Hack the Pentagon.” In a statement announcing the opening of registration, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said that the pilot…
Hacker Lexicon: Botnets, the Zombie Computer Armies That Earn Hackers Millions
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ZOMBIE ARMIES AREN’T just invading movie screens these days. They’re also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, that gives a bot herder remote control…
Pwn2own: Chrome, Safari, IE, Firefox Exploited,Researchers earn $1m
Annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver and Pwnium Pwn2Own hacking contests, prizes, security researchers earned more than a million dollars to download code 34 serious zero-day flaws exposed , and the Canadian Red Cross for $ 82 , 000 earned more . On stage their attacks successfully demonstrate and walk away…
Software House and HID Global earn FICAM approval for end-to-end PACS system
Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification Software House, in conjunction with HID Global, announced on October 30 that their combined end-to-end physical access control system with high assurance readers and validation software has been approved as a fully-compliant FICAM solution by the General Services Administration (GSA). Read More…. View full post on…