| |
Security News:
SecurityFocus Security News:
Change in Focus
|
Twitter attacker had proper credentials
|
PhotoDNA scans images for child abuse
|
Conficker data highlights infected networks
|
Google offers bounty on browser bugs
|
Cyberattacks from U.S. "greatest concern"
|
Microsoft patches as fraudsters target IE flaw
|
Attack on IE 0-day refined by researchers
|
Monster botnet held 800,000 people's details
|
Google: 'no timetable' on China talks
|
Latvian hacker tweets hard on banking whistle
|
MS uses court order to take out Waledac botnet
|
Enterprise Intrusion Analysis, Part One
|
Responding to a Brute Force SSH Attack
|
Data Recovery on Linux and <i>ext3</i>
|
eweek Security News:
[CaRP] XML error: mismatched tag at line 11
SANs Security News:
Microsoft LNK vulnerability fix coming on Monday
|
Microsoft is planning to release an out of band patch addressing the Shortcut vulnerabil ...(more)...
|
...(more)...
|
Wireshark released an update to fix multiple vulnerabilities in version 1.2 ...(more)...
|
httpry is a tool specialized for the analysis of web traffic. The tool itself can be used to capture ...(more)...
|
Fellow handler Kevin points us to new developments on this case, announced here ==www.fbi ...(more)...
|
New versions of Snort (Beta and Production)are both out. Release notes are here == http:// ...(more)...
|
Paul wrote in to tell us about the new version of NoScript just out ==http://noscript.net/ ...(more)...
|
This year's data breach report continues this valuable narrative. This years report is based o ...(more)...
|
...(more)...
|
According to this announcement:
http://secunia.com/advisories/40780/
The problem is that p ...(more)...
|
The Register Security News
Hacking human gullibility at Defcon
Defcon A hacker competition that challenges contestants to trick employees of large companies into divulging potentially sensitive information aims to show how human gullibility is the biggest security vulnerability of all. During its first day at the Defcon hacker contest in Las Vegas, it had clearly achieved its goal.?
|
Attacks on rise
Warning of an uptick in attacks, Microsoft plans to issue an emergency update to patch a critical Windows vulnerability that hackers are exploiting to seize control of PCs.?
|
Dust up over supposed evil particles
A futurologist has defended his controversial warning that "smart dust" is liable to become a future information stealing threat.?
|
What happens in Vegas...
Security shortcomings in Black Hat's newly established streaming media service allowed a security consultant to hack into the system and see presentations for free.?
|
Quickest crypto off the mark
The UK's Cyber Security Challenge has announced the winner of its prologue crypto puzzle, as well as the solution - for anyone still struggling to find an answer.?Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
|
Stunned web developers die a little inside
Computers in Whitehall will largely continue to run Microsoft?s Internet Explorer 6, which will make web coders spit out their cheese?n?pickle sarnies this lunchtime.?
|
Watch where you click
Online con artists have developed a strain of scareware that poses as a Firefox update.?
|
Expense accounts
Starcraft 2 was released this week and at the hefty RRP of £45. Many games sites are hopping mad at this, although typically retailers are selling Blizzard's strategy game at £10 less than RRP.?
|
Up to 4 million downloads
An Android wallpaper application that collected data from users' phones and uploaded it to a site in China was downloaded "millions of times", according to mobile security firm Lookout.?
|
Forever is a mighty long time
Underscoring the permanence of data published on the internet, a security researcher has compiled the names and URLs of more than 100 million Facebook users and made them available as a BitTorrent download.?
|
The Poland of international conflict
Black Hat Fighting wars that target computer networks is fraught with risks that don't exist in traditional warfare, raising the stakes for future conflicts, a retired US general told security professionals Thursday.?
|
Hackers feast on financial sector security mistakes
Cybercrooks continue to be a menace to corporate security, with hackers and malware authors collectibly responsible for 85 per cent of all stolen data.?
|
The rudeness of crowds
Facebook's attempts to crowdsource translations have gone awry in Turkey.?
|
Get your GSM snooping tools here
Black Hat Independent researchers have made good on a promise to release a comprehensive set of tools needed to eavesdrop on cell phone calls that use the world's most widely deployed mobile technology.?
|
'Saves your router's ass'
NoScript daddy Giorgio Maone has released version 2.0 of his popular Firefox add-on, a means of blocking JavaScript, Java, Flash, and other plug-in or script content from untrusted websites.?
|
CERT Security News:
Supplementing Passwords
|
Effectively Erasing Files
|
Understanding Web Site Certificates
|
How Anonymous Are You?
|
Risks of File-Sharing Technology
|
Reviewing End-User License Agreements
|
Avoiding Copyright Infringement
|
Understanding Your Computer: Email Clients
|
Securing Wireless Networks
|
Understanding Your Computer: Web Browsers
|
This page is created dynamically and was last updated :
31 July, 2010 GMT
|
|
