Fahmida Y. Rashid

A federal judge has denied a request that would have temporarily blocked Twitter from turning over account data to United States prosecutors investigating the whistleblower site WikiLeaks and its publication of classified government documents. The request sought to prevent the transfer while a federal appeals court was considering the case. U.S. District Court Judge Liam […]

Israeli officials are investigating a recent cyber-attack that resulted in the theft and exposure of thousands of credit card numbers belonging to Israeli citizens. The attack was a “breach of sovereignty comparable to a terrorist operation, and must be treated as such,” deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon told BBC. An individual using the name 0xOmar […]

Oracle has updated its Oracle Database Firewall product to improve enterprise database security and help enterprises block both malicious insiders and SQL injection attacks from gaining access to the data. The new release of Oracle Database Firewall introduces support for MySQL Enterprise Edition and other reporting capabilities, Oracle said Jan. 9. The database firewall protects […]

This past week, the Tech Herald published a detailed analysis of the password hashes that had been dumped shortly after Christmas in the wake of the Stratfor data breach. It took the Tech Herald less than 5 hours to crack the hashes of more than 80,000 passwords, using a readily available cracking tool and a […]

The hacktivist collective Anonymous will either reorgranize into a cohesive body or disband completely, McAfee researchers said in their security predictions for 2012. Anonymous is a loosely defined collective with no formal hierarchy or set of leaders. Any individual can take part in an Anonymous operation, and anyone start a campaign and encourage supporters to […]

The gang behind the attack on Stratfor over Christmas Eve is still making things difficult for the intelligence analysis firm by sending out malicious emails. Claiming to be part of the Anonymous hacktivist collective, this group breached several Strategic Forecasting servers over Christmas Eve and waltzed off with over 800,000 password hashes belonging to individuals […]

Adobe will release patches addressing several security issues in Adobe Reader and Acrobat as part of its scheduled quarterly update next week. The updates will affect Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions X and earlier on both the Windows and Mac OS X platforms, Adobe said in its advance notification announcement on Jan. 6. Adobe is […]

Symantec has confirmed that a group of hackers has stolen source code to two Symantec products, but downplayed the possible impact on users as a result of the theft. The attackers stole source code for two older Symantec products for enterprise customers, and not on the consumer-focused Norton product line as had been previously reported, […]

OpenSSL has fixed six security vulnerabilities and updated both 1.0.0 and 0.9.8 versions of the open-source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer protocol. The vulnerabilities fixed in versions 1.0.0.f and 0.9.8s include a plain text recovery attack that is publicly known, policy check failures and problems with buffers not being cleared before being reused, according […]

A group of hackers has claimed that it has stolen the source code to Symantec’s flagship antivirus product, according to a Pastebin post. This may just be an antivirus company’s worst nightmare come true. The group, named Lords of Dharmaraja, claimed to have breached an Indian military server and stolen several documents and files, according […]