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New Java zero-day attack offered for $5K on black market
January 16, 2013 9:49 AM
Meghan Kelly
Only one day after Oracle fixed a highly-publicized hole in Java, a new zero-day attack surfaced on online hacker forums. The zero-day owner says the exploit will be released to the highest bidder.
Homeland Security: Sorry, Oracle, your fix isn’t good enough
January 14, 2013 4:52 PM
Meghan Kelly
The Department of Homeland Security says, despite Oracle's recent Java patch, that you should keep Java disabled to "mitigate other Java vulnerabilities that may be discovered in the future."
Oracle issues fix for Java exploit after DHS warns of its holes
January 14, 2013 3:26 PM
Meghan Kelly
Oracle patches a hole in Java 7 that allowed hackers to hijack computers for botnets. The fix comes after a warning from the Department of Homeland Security.
Department of Homeland Security and Apple agree: Stop using Java
January 11, 2013 4:09 PM
Meghan Kelly
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security believes you shouldn't be using Java until an update has been issued to fix a dangerous hole.
Homeland Security will track this article if I say electric pork cloud virus. Oops.
May 28, 2012 2:13 PM
Tom Cheredar
The world now has access to a list of words and phrases that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security uses to monitor social networks and news article comments for terrorism and general threats against the country.
The list was part …
Along with CIA takedown, information compromised at Homeland Security by Anonymous
February 11, 2012 10:11 AM
Ben Popper
The pace of attacks by cyber vigilantes seems to be increasing in 2012. Yesterday news broke that the website of the CIA was down, an attack for which Anonymous claimed responsibility. Today CNN is reporting that attacks also hit government …
British tourists detained, barred from U.S. after tweet about “destroying America”
January 30, 2012 8:23 AM
Sean Ludwig
Two British tourists were detained and barred from entering the U.S. after the Department of Homeland Security flagged one of them for joking to “destroy America” and to dig up Marilyn Monroe’s grave on Twitter.
British citizens Leigh Van Bryan …
Vulnerability allows hackers to open prison doors, hiding activity from central command
November 7, 2011 10:57 AM
Meghan Kelly
One Christmas Eve, security consultant John Strauchs received a call about a new maximum security system he’d installed in a US prison. “All the doors popped open on death row,” said the person on the other end.
Strauchs’ (pictured below, …
In wake of PSN hack, Sony recruits Homeland Security official as security boss
September 6, 2011 11:31 AM
Dean Takahashi
Sony said today that is has hired a former official at the Department of Homeland Security to its new post of chief information security officer. The new hire takes place months after a massive hacker attack leaked data on 100 …
U.S. warns of dangerous security flaws in Chinese software
June 17, 2011 3:03 PM
Sean Ludwig
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday warned that Chinese-made software used by chemical, defense, and energy firms contains major security holes that hackers could exploit and use to harm critical systems.
With so many hacking incidents in the …
Don't chuckle: Homeland Security seeks to tame cyberspace's war zone
The Department of Homeland Security is well aware of the vulnerabilities of cyberspace and has made taming the Wild Wild West of the internet a high priority.
Jane Holl Lute, deputy director of Homeland Security, said in a keynote speech …
