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Kelly Collins of Fortify Software: Possible Creation of Cyber Weapon ‘Significant Concern’
Published on 24 Feb, 2011 at 11:05 in Cyber | Viewed 252 times | No Comments
President of Fortify Software Public Sector, an HP company, Kelly Collins has a mantra for software security: Find, fix and (from the title of her firm) fortify.
For too long, software security assurance has slipped under the radar. But now, Collins said the government is beginning to move to patch up “gaping holes…
Google Challenges Hackers to Exploit Chrome Browser
Published on 4 Feb, 2011 at 14:22 in GovCon Industry | Viewed 100 times | No Comments
Google has so much confidence in the security of its Chrome web browser that it is willing to pay $20,000 to anyone who can hack into it.
Those interested in stepping up to the challenge will get their chance at the Pwn2Own contest at next month’s CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada. Contestants will receive $20,000…
Researchers Create Mobile Botnet with Weather App
Published on 10 Mar, 2010 at 8:07 in Cloud | Viewed 924 times | No Comments
At last week’s RSA Conference, security researchers with TippingPoint’s Digital Vaccine Group presented their research into mobile botnets. To date, the largest mobile botnet was centered predominately in Europe on “jailbroken” iPhones. Researchers Derek Brown and Daniel Tijerina were able to fool around 8,000 iPhone and Android users into “joining” a mobile botnet by downloading a seemingly innocent weather app.
The app, called WeatherFist, captured a user’s GPS coordinates and…
