Reuters 24 Jun, 9:11 AM Pentagon’s flash drive ban has plenty of loopholes The Pentagon has granted many exceptions, possibly numbering in the thousands, to allow staff members who administer secure computer networks to use flash drives and other portable storage devices, department spokesmen say. The exceptions to policies barring the use of such devices […]

By Ian Chiu on June 24th, 2013 , http://www.everythingusb.com/edward-snowden-21825.html One of the most serious things to come out of the whole Snowden revelations is not the fact that the world’s governments are snooping on their own citizens. Anyone who has not been living under a rock should have already known that. What’s really shocking is […]

Keystroke monitoring may be just a start as Army seeks ways to sift through soldiers’ website visits, search queries, and other work, watching for abnormal behavior and trying to stop inside attacks. By Mathew J. Schwartz,  InformationWeek May 09, 2012 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/security/government/army-eyes-monitoring-tools-to-stop-wikil/240000047 Defense Robots: Fast, Flexible, And Tough (click image for larger view and for […]

Thumb Drive Security: Snowden 1, NSA 0 Thumb drives helped NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden transport top-secret data from the agency. If the NSA can’t keep a lid on thumb drives, can you? By Mathew J. Schwartz,  InformationWeek June 14, 2013 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/security/storage/thumb-drive-security-snowden-1-nsa-0/240156720 Pity the poor USB thumb drive. The humble storage device is again under […]

June 11th, 2013, 13:37 GMT · By Eduard Kovacs http://news.softpedia.com/news/Experts-Find-ZeuS-Malware-That-s-Capable-of-Spreading-Via-USB-Flash-Drives-360208.shtml The cybercriminals behind the notorious ZeuS malware continue to improve their creation. Earlier this year, experts reported an increase in the number of detections and they’ve even observed it spreading via Facebook. However, Trend Micro experts say they’ve identified yet another spreading mechanism implemented into […]

Presented by: Billy Lau , Yeongjin Jang and Chengyu Song Apple iOS devices are considered by many to be more secure than other mobile offerings. In evaluating this belief, we investigated the extent to which security threats were considered when performing everyday activities such as charging a device. The results were alarming: despite the plethora of defense […]

BY SPENCER ACKERMAN 04.01.13 2:47 PM The Army is mad for smartphones and tablets. Data security, not so much. The Army absolutely loves its new Android, iOS and Windows smartphones and tablets. Just not enough to properly secure the sensitive data it stores on them. A spot check of mobile devices used by the Army […]

By Fahmida Y. Rashid on March 13, 2013 Organizations can spend as much as $6,500 an hour to recover from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and $3,000 a day recovering from malware infections, according to a new report from Solutionary. In its 2013 Global Threat Intelligence Report, Solutionary identified sophisticated malware, DDoS attacks, the […]

Published time: March 15, 2013 04:01 http://rt.com/usa/us-federal-malware-database-hacked-291/ A federal government database that stores malicious viruses and cyber-attacks has been taken offline following the detection of a hacker attack on its servers. The database is meant to provide an early warning of Internet infiltration by new viruses. Viewed as the Bible of virus and malware information, […]

Associated Press, March 14, 2013 The discovery of a group of servers linked to an elusive espionage campaign is providing new details about a high-tech piece of spy software that some fear may be targeting dissidents living under oppressive regimes. A Canadian research center said Wednesday that it had identified 25 different countries that host […]