Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Reformed hacker-turned-security-consultant Kevin Mitnick served five years in federal prison for breaking into phone and software company networks. He talks about his past hacking exploits, computer security, and how he turned an illegal hobby into a useful career.
Source:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148430/five_things_kevin_mitnick_knows_about_security.html
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
The exploit discovered by IOActive's Dan Kaminsky, takes advantage of a fundamental flaw in the DNS (Domain Name Server) protocol. Organizations should move quickly to patch vulnerable DNS servers against a flaw revealed last week. Dan Kaminsky said the bug can be exploited to redirect Internet traffic, but the problem ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Security researcher and author Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker can target flaws in Intel's microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.
Kaspersky will demonstrate how such an attack can be made in a presentation at ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
AT&T Inc. and AOL LLC have joined three other major Internet service providers in eliminating access to child pornography newsgroups, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
In June, Verizon Communications Inc., Time-Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel Corp. signed an agreement with Cuomo to shut down access to two major ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Microsoft warns that an unpatched Word vulnerability has become the subject of targeted attacks.The flaw - which is restricted to Microsoft Office Word 2002 Service Pack 3 - creates a mechanism for hackers to inject hostile code onto vulnerable systems. Redmond has published workarounds as a stop-gap measure while its ...
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