DtR Episode 47 - NewsCast for July 1st, 2013

Jul 2, 2013

*Apologies for this very important episode getting out a bit late ladies and gents, experienced a loss in the family so things were a little slow to re-start, we should be back on track for next week's episode.

Topics Covered

• Political hacktivism is making a big splash in international news - 
• • http://www.ilovechile.cl/2013/06/17/chile-democratic-partys-official-site-hacked/87737
  • http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/jenks/jenks-chamber-of-commerce-website-hacked-for-second-time-within-a-month
  • http://www.publicnewshub.com/zimbabwean-hackers-hailed-for-attacking-ancs-website/
  • http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/215436810/scat/b8de8e630faf3631/ht/South-and-North-Korea-close-website-amid-hacking-alerts
  • http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/syria-s-online-troops-wage-counter-revolutionary-cyber-war-113060900065_1.html
  • http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/06/turkish-ministry-of-interior-website.html
• Google Published their epic Transparency Report data
• • http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/06/web-badness-knows-no-bounds/
  • http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
• European Union issues new data breach laws for telecommunications industry
• • http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/33109/eu-announces-new-data-breach-rules-for-telecoms/
• Critical vulnerabilities found in CROWD single sign-on product
• • http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9240487/Critical_vulnerabilities_found_in_Atlassian_Crowd_enterprise_single_sign_on_tool
• Facebook offers (pays!) $20,000 flaw for brilliant business-logic bug
• • http://www.eweek.com/security/facebook-patches-mobile-text-vulnerability-rewards-flaw-discoverer/
• Microsoft launchges a bug bounty program, for IE11 and more
• • http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/report/bountyprograms.aspx#
  • http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/microsoft-bug-bounty-program/
• Opera code signing certificate stolen and used to sign malware
• • http://www.eweek.com/security/opera-data-breach-exposes-legions-of-windows-users-to-malware-attack/