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Now, THAT is how you get attention… A security consultant decided to execute some code, scan Facebook for publicly search-able profiles, and publish that information in a 2.8GB download via torrent at thepiratebay.org. I don’t have first hand knowledge of what’s in the file, the download has about 40 minutes left before finishing.
In light of [...]
This one made me laugh heartily. Attendees at AusCERT, and Australian computer security conference, took home complimentary USB drives from IBM, but those drives had been infected with malware. The good news is, it was an old malware (2008) that is detected by pretty much every antivirus product out there.
OK, so it’s unfair to blame [...]
I’m so glad I don’t have my site hosted there. Seriously, this can’t be acceptable at all. Long story short, sites hosted at GoDaddy are being hacked. It seems to have nothing to do with the sites themselves, and everything to do with something wrong internally at GoDaddy. It’s not breaking news, either – it’s [...]
That’s just lazy, and no fun. In the dark recesses of the Chinese Internet, as well as at least one Beijing Bazaar, Wi-Fi cracking kits are being sold. The kits include a USB wireless adapter, a CD running a Linux distribution, and detailed instructions for getting wireless network passwords.
Of course, the software developer points out [...]
The stories about the “stolen” iPhone and Gizmodo’s reporting on it are all over the Internet. A brief summary for those not following the story:
A prototype iPhone 4G (disguised as a 3GS) was found late one night in a bar in northern California. Both the person who “accidentally” left it there and the person who found had, [...]
It looks like McAfee is trying to do the right thing, but I think they are missing the bigger part of the picture here. It’s very nice of them to reimburse consumers, who incurred reasonable expenses to repair their PCs after a faulty update from McAfee, but this seems like more of a distraction than [...]
Zeus is proving to be pretty persistent, and is now targeting a flaw in Adobe’s PDF format to install itself on Windows based machines. What does Zeus do? Not much, it just logs keystrokes and steals banking information…
The good news? So far, it’s a pretty unsophisticated attack. An email comes with a pdf attached, [...]
I don’t think anyone is surprised by this, but it serves as a nice warning. Long story short, the Facebook game Farm Town has been serving up ads with fake security warnings. These are those warnings that pop up and tell you that your computer is infected with hundreds of trojans/viruses/spyware/malware programs and you should [...]
I have to say I’m happy with this. Especially at this early stage of the Office 2010 game. Microsoft, using a fuzzing botnet, has tapped into the computing power of idle PCs on their network to uncover 1800 bugs with Office 2010. It is important to note, these are not all security fixes, but they [...]
On day one of the security convention, pretty much everything was hacked. Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari – both on OS X 10.6 and on the iPhone were all compromised. The vendors all get to know how it happened, and hopefully they can patch for the hacks that were used.
What’s unsettling to me, is the [...]
