Month: January 2015

Originally published in ZDnet. Online privacy company Abine today announced its new Private Search anti-tracking tool for those who want to use Google Search in Firefox without being tracked by Google. Abine has announced the new feature in conjunction with Data Privacy Day 2015, and search engines Yahoo! and Bing will be added to the… Read more…

Originally published in ZDnet. Welcome to Zero Day's Week In Security, our roundup of notable security news items for the week ending January 23, 2015. Covers enterprise, controversies, reports and more. This week President Obama's State of the Union rubbed infosec the wrong way, Adobe has a zero day, Symantec has a remote code execution,… Read more…

Originally published in ZDnet. Let's get one thing out of the way before wading into the two-and-a-half hour establishing shot known as the film Blackhat: There are no definitive blackhats in Blackhat the movie. Nor is it actually a film about blackhats, or a cool and timely real-life blackhat tale. Bizarrely miscast, Blackhat's leading man… Read more…

Originally published in ZDnet. Welcome to Zero Day's Week In Security, our roundup of notable security news items for the week ending January 16, 2015. Covers enterprise, controversies, reports and more. This week DHS failed in a cybersecurity overview, Google stopped security updates for nearly one billion users, Microsoft had a very unusual first Patch… Read more…

Originally published in ZDnet. Assessing DHS performance 12 years after its creation, a new Federal report called "A Review of the Department of Homeland Security's Missions and Performance" contains a blistering summary on the state of DHS cybersecurity practices and programs. The January 1 report reveals and concludes that DHS's cybersecurity practices and programs are… Read more…

Originally published in ZDnet. An extensive, embarrassing, and alarming Federal oversight report finds major problems with the Department of Homeland Security, detailing funds spent on spa trips, no plan for an Ebola pandemic, Federal guards untrained in weapons screening, incompetent cybersecurity practices and strategies, and little proof that the DHS is doing anything to make… Read more…

Originally published in ZDnet. Welcome to Zero Day's Week In Security, our roundup of notable security news items for the week ending January 9, 2015. Covers enterprise, controversies, reports and more. This week Microsoft put its advance security info behind a paywall, a Google engineer caught Gogo Inflight faking Google certs, super cookies showed that… Read more…

Originally published in ZDnet. Pastebin tells ZDNet that the Indian government's wide-ranging internet block, which had included the site, has been removed and Indian citizens are again able to access Pastebin — but 27 sites still remain banned under the order. According to Pastebin's statement to ZDNet, there is still no verifiable explanation for India's… Read more…

Originally published in ZDnet. Welcome to Zero Day's Week In Security, our roundup of notable security news items for the week ending January 2, 2015. Covers enterprise, controversies, reports and more. This week the Internet Systems Consortium site was hacked, a Lizard Squad member was caught (and released), a privilege escalation bug was revealed in… Read more…

Originally published in ZDnet. © Action Images The Indian government's sweeping block on websites alleged to host terrorist content has been lifted on gist.github, Vimeo, Weebly and Dailymotion — but 28 sites still remain banned under the order. The block on 32 websites for alleged "Jihadi Propaganda" included the four sites along with Pastebin, Internet… Read more…