Global Bug Bounty Scheme Urged To Tackle Cyber Crime

  A new report from security-information firm NSS Labs is campaigning for a global vulnerability purchasing (or bug bounty) program. It claims that the current tepid approach from software firms has failed to staunch the flow of reports of new software flaws. Increasing Risk In 2012, the number of vulnerabilities reported in…

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CBP officer charged in Texas alien smuggling scheme

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  border_security Image Caption:  Pharr Port of Entry A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, his girlfriend and an associate have been charged in Brownsville, TX, in an alleged bribery and alien smuggling operation along the U.S./Mexico border that prosecutors said operated between 2009 and 2011….

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Microsoft researchers discover malicious cookie scheme

Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analysing commonly collected web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking. If put into play, the scheme could clandestinely forward stolen session cookies to individual zombie machines in botnets that could use…

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