Probe: Poor Info Sharing Harms Security
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Poor information-sharing both inside and outside government is threatening homeland security, congressional investigators said Tuesday.
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Bureau was target of an attempt to gain access to employees' user account information for its computer network.
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As per suggestions contained in the FAQ: Herein lies a report of two identified and as-of-yet uncorrected security flaws in Scoop. &nbsp;Enough detail will be provided to assist admins in investigating and correcting the flaws, but it is the author's hope that the details of the flaws will be sufficiently obscured to prevent abuse by the undesirables. Executive summary: Through the exploitation of various unchecked privileged operations, attackers may be able to perform admin-level actions leading to data loss. &nbsp;Additionally, well-intentioned security measures combined with XSS vulnerabilities can be exercised to simulate admin-level action, resulting in data loss.
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Some members discover itâs tough to erase all their information from the site.
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(InfoWorld) - Researchers in the U.S. say they've successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make itÂ harder to trace Internet surfersÂ and the Web sites they are viewing. The researchers, from the University of Colorado in Boulder, focused their efforts on The Onion Router (Tor) network. Tor software enables the creation of networks of servers that can send traffic over many different routes, masking its original source. The network offers users a greater degree of anonymity, since Web sites record the IP (Internet protocol) address of visiting machine, which could be linked to an individual user. Tor's creators say they were aware of the research, but using the network is still effective. The researchers, who consulted Tor project officials during their work, wrote on their Web site that they still feel it's the "most secure and usable privacy-enhancing system available." But the paper outlines the privacy concerns that could arise from using the techniques. "For example, law enforcement officers might use our techniques to cheaply and realistically track online predators," according to the paper. "The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and other organizations might use our techniques to link Web or torrent requests to their corresponding requesters." For the experiment, the researchers constructed their own isolated Tor network using 66 servers. They placed malicious servers within the network that were designed to draw a substantial portion of routing requests by misrepresenting their bandwidth capability. Then the researchers used an algorithm to link the "path" of a Web site request. More than 46 percent of the time, the paths could be calculated, revealing the source of the traffic, the paper said. But several attacks against Tor have been developed, wrote Shava Nerad, Tor's executive director, on the project's blog. "We have never seen such an attack 'in the wild,' and we think it no more likely that this paper would make such an attack easier or more likely than it was a few years ago when another version of it was documented," Nerad wrote. The Tor platform has been incorporated into applications such as Torpark, a browser based on Firefox that causes a computer's IP address to appear to regularly change. Â
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A spyware forum panel suggests users' sloppy security practices are a major contributor to problems.
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Possible Patriot Act entanglement raises hackles A union is warning that the privacy of sensitive information could be put at risk by a statistics agency IT deal.â¦
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A new standard aims to help users pass information between Web services without sharing full access to their identities.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Organisations around the world are not protecting their information sufficiently against increasingly more potent threats, a new survey by Ernst &amp; Young has found.
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An unpatched server at the University of Colorado may have compromised information on up to 45,000 students and recent alumni. The patch, which fixed a vulnerability in a Symantec AV console, had been issued but not yet applied.
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For the first time, the general public is hearing almost daily reports of theft and exposure of sensitive nonpublic personal information.  What can we do to eliminate data insecurity?  Download this white paper to learn how emerging internal and external threats bypass traditional perimeter security measures to gain access to the crown jewels-enterprise data.
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But wacko ideas don't fix dud IT systems Analysis Home Office proposals on "multi-agency information sharing", leaked to the Times this week, say that council, NHS and care staff should be given a statutory obligation to pass on information about anyone they think might commit violent crimes in the future.â¦
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Companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, but the investment often is too little, too late.
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Security researchers release code that shows how a pair of widely used technologies could be misused to take control of a victim's Web browsing experience.
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The facts of web servers don't necessarily match the myths when it comes to security.
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Government secrecy has increased sharply in the past few years &#151; keeping Americans in the dark about information they should be able to access, says a report released Thursday by a coalition of watchdog groups.
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Military contractors may be concealing data breaches by international cyberspies.