Since March 20, the @Anonw0rmer Twitter account has been silent. Its owner, w0rmer, is known as a member of the CabinCr3w group, a hacker team linked to Anonymous. In early February, as part of the Operations PiggyBank and PigRoast, the CabinCr3w members were suspected of hacking various police department- or law enforcement-related websites including: West Read more…
Tags: Anonymous, Exif, Hacktivism, Open Source
A core component of a database security strategy which reliably protects an organization’s sensitive information and ensures continuous compliance, is having a means of answering three simple questions: What? When? Who? Clear visibility into the nature of each and every database transaction– knowing what happened, when it happened and who made it happen– means being Read more…
Tags: database security, MySQL, Open Source
The nonprofit Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) recently released the 1.0 version of their new Suricata IDS/IPS engine. OISF initiated the project with funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as well as a consortium of private organizations. The mission of Suricata and of the OISF is to create an engine that will allow Read more…
Tags: Open Source
Recently Network World’s Ellen Messmer asked “Is open-source Snort dead?” With claims of a new and improved open-source IDS engine, OISF certainly hopes so. Or course Sourcefire, the keeper of Snort, vehemently disagrees. While Open source projects are a great way to drive interest and innovation in almost any field, it will be interesting to Read more…
Tags: Network Security, Open Source
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