Researcher finds new security flaws in SCADA PLC systems, decides not to expose them at TakeDownCon.

In a blog post today at nsslabs.com, NSS CEO Rick Moy lauded the infosec acumen of researcher Dillon Beresford, saying …

WordPress for Managing your Site’s Content

There is a nice series over at Web MaxFormance on using wordpress as a Content Management System, or CMS,  for any …

You can’t make this stuff up. It really would be interesting to know who’s behind the Sony Breach.

Seriously.  Could you even make these stories up? Sony comes clean.  They admit that 77 million records were compromised. In …

Decrease in hacked records points to craftier attacks, not better security

Decrease in hacked records points to craftier attacks, not better security

An InfoWorld article summarizes the Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report(DBIR) and shows that – surprise! – the attackers are …

Do Not Assume Your Shopping Carts are Secure

…some of the major shopping cart providers, Amazon, Google and Paypal have software flaws

SecurID Suffers Data Security Breach

RSA, one of the pioneering companies of information security and the creator of SecurID technology in use by thousands of …

Openfire XMPP Chat Server: migrating from windows to linux demystified

Most other chat protocols/services do not use TLS/SSL or it’s optional and off by default, and thus it’s a low-hanging vector for data breach and leakage.

Texas experiencing an energy crisis.

I think the demand is at full capacity. A very scary situation for Texas residents and businesses alike.

How can an entire country fall off the global internetwork?

nearly every single site is trending Egypt

Auto makers have some work to do securing passive keyless entry and start systems

For as little as $100, equipment can be obtained off-the-shelf and configured to sniff the codes used by these automobile systems.