Jan 15 2013

Kaspersky Lab discovered the cyber espionage campaign “Red October”


Author: Shafeeque Olassery Kunnikkal | Category: Cyber Security, Featured, Information Security | Leave a Comment

Last October Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team started a new investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies, more

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Jan 15 2013

Companies Revoke Trust in Unauthorized Google Digital Certificates


Author: Shafeeque Olassery Kunnikkal | Category: Cyber Security, Information Security | Leave a Comment

Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have revoked (trust) for two digital certificates that were released by a Turkish certificate authority (CA). The certificates were issued by an intermediate certificate authority that links back to TURKTRUST, which has acknowledged that in August 2011, it inadvertently issued two intermediate CA certificates to organizations that should have received regular…..

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Jan 15 2013

DHS Website Attacked Through Directory Traversal Flaw


Author: Shafeeque Olassery Kunnikkal | Category: Cyber Security, Information Security | Leave a Comment

Hackers claim to have exploited a trivial directory traversal vulnerability to gain access to portions of a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website that offers advice for foreigners who are seeking to study in the US. The attackers were reportedly able to access the site’s configuration file that contains a password for a database…..

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