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About a third of the FBI agents working on cyber investigations lack the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate national security intrusions, the Justice Department’s inspector general concluded in a new report. The report said the FBI’s practice of rotating agents among different offices to promote a variety of work experiences hinders the ability to investigate national security cyber intrusions. The inspector general’s audit, based on interviews of 36 agents in 10 offices, emphasized the need for a strong cyber security work force in federal government “is more urgent than ever,” said Sen. Susan Collins, the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The FBI has a comprehensive instructional plan in place that includes 12 core courses an agent must take along with on-the-job training. According to the inspector general’s report, many agents said training was helpful but that they did not have the time to take the req...

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Hydra v6.3 Released with oracle & snmp-enum modules ! A very fast network logon cracker which support many different services. Have a look at the feature sets and services coverage page - including a speed comparison against ncrack and medusa! Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows. Hydra is a parallized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast. Version 6.x was tested to compile cleanly on Linux, Windows/Cygwin, Solaris 11, FreeBSD 8.1 and OSX. CHANGELOG for 6.3 * Added patch by Petar(dot)Kaley(at)gmail.com which adds nice icons to cygwin hydra files * Added patch by Gauillaume Rousse which fixes a warning display * New Oracle module (for databases via OCI, for TNS Listener passwd, for SID enumeration) * New SMTP user enum module (using VRFY, EXPN or RCPT command) * Memory leak fix for -x bruteforcing option ...

Department of Homeland Security Out to Get PSN Hackers ! The external intrusion into the PlayStation Network has led to undoubtedly the worst fiasco in the PlayStation universe since the ApocalyPS3 of 2010. If the readers are like us, then we’re all not only sick of the PSN being down but are also sick of all the news surrounding it with little to no positive light at the end of the tunnel. Finally, there finally appears to be some progress in the making thanks to the unveiling of some assuring details. Despite the word that SCEA is working around the clock with third-party security organizations to bring the network back up for our online gaming pleasure, users were not told what team was conducting the investigations, how large the said company was, and to what extent their resources were spanning out to. However, in a surprising turn of events, the United States Department of Homeland Security revealed that the federal division is lending their hand in assessing the damages o...

Law enforcement organization hit by hackers ! Computer hackers have stolen names, addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card information of about 2,000 retired public safety officers belonging to the Peace Officers Research Association of California, according to a email sent to them on Thursday night. PORAC informed its members that its data server was breached earlier this month. The hackers stole application files of retired associate members going back to 2008, including dates of birth, addresses and phone numbers and email addresses. "Based on our investigation, it appears that the breach was limited to (retiree) applications and we have no reason to believe that other PORAC members were affected," PORAC President Ron Cottingham said in the email. Cottingham told The Bee this morning that the association was following up with a letters that will be mailed out today. The organization started receiving reports last week that members' credit cards were ...