Metasploit Releases DNS Explot Code

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Metasploit, the information security research and hack tool kit, created by HD Moore, has released exploit code targeting the DNS Cache Poisoning Flaw, recently revealed by Dan Kaminsky, of DoxPara Research. Evidently, reported at Wired’s ThreatLevel blog, the code can not be utilized to overwrite the domain name server cache data, ...

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Vista, Word and Google Desktop circumvent TrueCrypt function

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, in conjunction with a research group, has studied the security of TrueCrypt, to see whether it meets the specifications for a 'Deniable File System' (DFS) – implemented in TrueCrypt as hidden volumes – and is really able to conceal the existence of a volume within a ...

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Facebook bug leaks members’ birthday data

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

A glitch in a test version of Facebook's Web site inadvertently exposed the birthdays of Facebook's 80 million members this week. The bug was discovered over the weekend by Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos. While checking out Facebook's new design, Cluley noticed that the birth dates of some ...

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Data can leak from partially encrypted disks

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

If you're using encryption software to keep part of your computer's hard drive private, you may have a problem, according to researchers at the University of Washington and BT Group PLC. They've discovered that popular programs such as Microsoft Corp.'s Word and Google Desktop store data on unencrypted sections of a ...

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YouTube, Viacom agree to mask viewer data

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Viacom and other copyright holders have agreed to let YouTube mask user IDs and Internet addresses when Google Inc.'s online video site hands over viewership records in a $1 billion lawsuit accusing YouTube of enabling copyright infringement. A federal judge ordered the database produced in a July 1 ruling widely ...

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