The European Court of Justice has ruled that copyright holders may not force social networking sites to use filters to thwart illegal filesharing……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
FBI Says Social Network Monitoring Plan Will Abide By Privacy Rules (February 14, 2012)
The FBI is attempting to allay concerns about user privacy over its plan to monitor social networking sites by making assurances that all its activity will comply with privacy and civil rights requirements……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
Trojan Exploits Known Hole in Microsoft Office (February 9, 2012)
Wow! It’s an incident handler’s Christmas morning, tools, tools, tools. Very Applicable! -Todd Davis, Symantec Article source: http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/newsbites.php?vol=14&issue=13&rss=Y#sID309 View full post on National Cyber Security
Oracle Java and Adobe Shockwave patches for February too
Adobe and Oracle both released critical fixes as their valentine to you. Shockwave and Java both contain remote code execution vulnerabilities, so be sure to update them as soon as possible. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
GSA Issues New FedRAMP Information (February 8, 2012)
The US General Services Administration (GSA) has published new information about FedRAMP, the program aimed at hastening the adoption of cloud computing……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
February 2012 Patch Tuesday to address 21 vulnerabilities
Microsoft plans to fix coding errors in Internet Explorer, .NET Silverlight and Microsoft Office. View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News View full post on National Cyber Security
Microsoft to issue nine security updates in February Patch Tuesday
Microsoft is set to deliver nine security updates next week, four of them critical, to patch 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, .Net and Silverlight. This year’s February Patch Tuesday will feature three fewer updates and one less patch than 2011′s. Four of the nine updates were tagged “critical,”…
DNSChanger Trojan Still Needs to be Cleaned from Fortune 500 and US Government Systems (February 3 & 6, 2012)
Half of Fortune 500 companies and nearly half of all US federal government agencies still have the DNSChanger Trojan on their networks, according to researchers……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
Kernell’s Appeal to Overturn Obstruction of Justice Conviction Denied (January 30 & February 2, 2012)
David Kernell, the Tennessee college student who was found guilty on hacking into then-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account has lost an appeal to have his conviction for obstruction of justice thrown out……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
Romanian Police Arrest Alleged NASA and Pentagon Hacker (January 31 & February 1, 2012)
Police in Romania have arrested a man who allegedly broke into US government websites, including those of NASA and the Pentagon……. View full post on SANS NewsBites Other links you may like: The Worlds No 1 Security Consultant: http://www.youtube.com/no1hacker#p/u/0/KaOnRsc16Ls, LocatePC, Fake Text Messages go to SPOOFEM.COM, LIGATT Security, Hacker Gear…