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Northrop Grumman claims 300 0-day attacks against them last year, now a 0-day every 11 minutes.
Why SCADA deployments are fucked.
[While this disclosure turned out to be a private key for a development / testing network, the fact is it still should not have been published in a world readable directory. Doing so highlights a serious breakdown in security policy and a failure in secure operations.]
A French provider of SSL certificates appears to have made a bit of a boo-boo in its webserver configuration: publishing its private key for the world to see, and opening up a potentially serious security hole in the world’s web browsers.
SSL certificates serve two purposes on the Internet: to encrypt information, and to verify a webserver’s identity. An SSL certificate is what is used to keep the password you log in to your Internet banking site private, and also serves to ensure that you’re genuinely logging in to the bank’s own server.
Wow, kudos to Anthony Freed and Infosec Island for their piece on LIGATT / LulzSec, *very* well done.
myce:
Joseph Black, Senior Adviser at Black & Berg Cybersecurity Consulting, LLC, offered a challenge at his site’s homepage: hack it, and receive a $10,000 reward plus a position at the firm working alongside him. He felt so cocksure that he taunted the newly notorious online hacker group, LulzSec, via Twitter.And then, the group hacked the homepage of Black & Berg Cybersecurity Consulting.
In response to the news that the U.S. government wants to view hacking as an act of war, the group responsible for attacks on Sony and PBS targeted the Atlanta chapter of InfraGard, a security association that works with the FBI.
The aftermath of LulzSec docking their ship in InfraGuard’s port has resulted in accusations of corruption against data intelligence and metrics firm Unveillance.
VANCOUVER - The giant computer company Cisco and U.S. prosecutors deceived Canadian authorities and courts in a massive abuse of process to have a former executive thrown in jail, says a B.C. Supreme Court judge.
The point, said Justice Ronald McKinnon in a stinging decision delivered orally on Tuesday, was to derail a lawsuit launched by the former employee, and involved a series of machinations that would make a normal person “blanch at the audacity of it all.”
LulzSec is at it again, bringing a whole new batch of stick-it-to-the-man.
In its most recent activity, LulzSec has defaced the website of Infragard Atlanta, the Atlanta branch of a cooperative between the FBI and public assets.

Stay classy, BoA.
Yet another official reseller of SSL certificate authority Comodo has suffered a security breach that allowed attackers to gain unauthorized access to data.
Brazil-based ComodoBR is at least the fourth Comodo partner to be compromised this year. In March, the servers of a separate registration authority were hacked by attackers who used their access to forge counterfeit certificates signed with Comodo’s root signing key. Comodo admitted that two more of its resellers were hit in similar attacks, although no keys were issued.
Comodo has so far declined to name the resellers.
Facebook “believes Google is doing some things in social networking that raise privacy concerns…”
May 5 (Bloomberg) — LastPass, a company that offers to safeguard and simplify managing subscribers’ online passwords, said hackers may have broken into its database and stolen information on as many as 1.25 million accounts.
The company’s service allows customers to use one password with enhanced security features to access multiple password- protected accounts for online banking, Internet shopping, and other secure sites. The Vienna, Virginia-based company posted a message on its website late yesterday alerting customers to the breach in its security.