Category: Commentaries and Analyses

Dennis Fisher writes: A pair of security researchers have implemented an attack that exploits the way that ASP.NET Web applications handle encrypted session cookies, a weakness that could enable an attacker to hijack users’ online banking sessions and cause other severe problems in vulnerable applications. Experts say that the bug, which will be discussed in…

Elizabeth Montalbano reports: Some federal agencies that deal with highly sensitive data are not adequately protecting it from contract workers, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found. The Departments of Defense (DoD), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) have some guidance and contract provisions in place for what data contractors can…

Cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org: In a year when both Congress and the FTC have been making noise about regulating online advertising, you would think that the industry would be eager to show that such regulation is not needed. Yet a new study released last week by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab suggests that not only…

I posted this to PogoWasRight.org last week but probably should have posted it here, too: Simon Bradshaw of University of London – Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Christopher Millard of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies; Oxford Internet Institute, and Ian Walden of Queen Mary University of London, School of Law have a working paper…

The good folks at Open Security Foundation have created a database of cloud computing incidents.  The incidents are tagged as “AutoFail,” “DataLoss,” “Hack,” “Outage,” or “Vulnerability,”  permitting researchers and professionals to analyze different types of incidents.   As of this morning, there are 222 incidents in the database as they have backfilled some earlier incidents…