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I spy with my little eye…
I came across a very interesting post by Peter Cochrane that should send shivers down the spine of anybody reading it. And if you are a security professional, I’d recommend grabbing the chair closest to you. It reads like the …
Men in blue suits raid Gizmodo
“Finders keepers” isn’t exactly a legal concept Many bloggers and commentators are making much of the fact that San Mateo police served a search warrant on the home of Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen and confiscated computers, servers and other equipment, …
The tale of Gray Powell and the lost iPhone 4.0
Malware creators love a juicy news story Malware creators just love a news story that has the perfect ingredients: a leading brand name, a prototype phone and a thriving IT community just dying to hear what the latest gadget is …
Malware humor
Every once in a while, you find some odd piece of text in a piece of malware. Debugging the TDL 3 rootkit yields some interesting results. Here are messages that dump in the debug window at various times: Fri Apr …
Fake Java Application websites target XBox Gamers
If you like downloading or installing programs on your PC related to XBox gaming, you might want to take note of this writeup. There’s a DIY kit in circulation that allows an attacker to create a website claiming to be …
Will fuzzing save civilization as we know it?
Tom Gallagher, senior security test lead with Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, was extensively quoted in news stories today as he described how his group found 1,800 software flaws in Office 2010 by running millions of “fuzzing” tests. According to ComputerWorld, …
Apple issues mega patch for Mac OS X
Apple has issued Security Update 2010-002 (Mac OS X v10.6.3) that fixes 100 enumerated vulnerabilities in:– Mac OS X 10.5– Mac OS X 10.6– Mac OS X Server 10.5– Mac OS X Server 10.6 The 400 MB+ download takes a …
Firefox, IE8 and Safari hacked at CanSecWest
Fast action at Pwn2Own In the Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada, security researchers and hackers quickly hacked three of the major browsers to take control of the underline operating systems. – A German hacker …
20 undocumented holes in OS X?
Charlie Miller, Principal Analyst at Baltimore, Md.-based security firm ISE, has made news in the last two days saying that he found 20 perviously-unknown security vulnerabilities in Apple’s OS X operating system. News stories seem to anticipate that he will …
iRogue?
Are Mac OS X rogues an emerging threat? For many years discussions of the potential for malware on Macs have ended with the conclusion: “there isn’t much yet, but as soon as Mac gets a big market share the dark …
