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Steve Jobs is an inventor and inspiration for tech enthusiasts, and he is now the Chairman of the company he co-founded in a garage. He resigns as CEO (chief executive officer) of Apple Inc at age of 56. Tim Cook will now work as CEO of the company. Steve Jobs has been on long medical leave since January 17 for undisclosed reason. On the other hand the company is also
According to the report from CNews, said that source code from one of the famous Anti-Virus in the world, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, has been stolen and available for public. However, this is an old issue. The source code itself is from 2008. As you can see on one of the Kaspersky’s moderator post on Kaspersky forum. And people who spread
Article from Network World: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012011-retaliation-answer-cyber-attacks.html?hpg1=bnThis may come off as somewhat of a rant but.. Disclosure given in advance.In this Handlers opinion there is no such thing as benevolent crime. Network world is running a piece that states “Is retaliation the answer to cyber attacks?” Pretty sure that I can speak for the handler team
I just got done teaching For 558, our relatively new Network Forensics class. Great students and some great side discussions. One of this side discussions involved ‘xxd’, a tool that can be used to create a hex dump from a binary file or reverse a hex dump back into a binary file. For example:xxd index.html | head -10000000: 3c21 444f 4354 5950 4520 6874 6d6c 200a file.hexnext, we read each line from file.hex,
Looks like there is a new twitter worm out there. There are an increased number of messages like the following ones: Those short URL points to the servers providing the malware. The following are some of the malicious URL I could gather (CAREFUL: THEY ARE STILL
One of the challenges faced in the IT industry is to break poorly conceived or mistaken preconceptions held by others. What happens when we’re the ones holding on to out dated ideas or are just wrong, as technology has taken another huge leap forward and we’re left standing clutching on to something that’s now infective?I have been reviewing
The Internet Systems Consortium, the makers of the open source DHCP server, indicated the DHCPv6 service may crash after processing a DHCPv6 decline message. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE 2011-0413 and affect version 4.0.x-4.2.x and maybe remotely exploitable.Note: This DoS only affects DHCPv6 servers and there is currently no workaround.[1] https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/isc-os-security/2011-January/000000.html[2] http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/686084———–Guy Bruneau
A bug allowed an unidentified person to post a message on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page on the site yesterday, a spokesman told CNET today. The odd message that garnered more than 1,800 “likes” and more than 400 comments before it was taken down was: “Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest
This illustration from the GAO report shows the topography of a smart grid.(Credit: GAO) Echoing concerns of security experts, a new report from the Government Accountability Office warns that smart-grid systems are being deployed without built-in security features.Certain smart meters have not been designed with a strong security architecture and lack important security features like event logging and forensics
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Feature phones are used by more people than smartphones, but get less security scrutiny. (Credit: Collin Mulliner) Much of the discussion of security threats to mobile phones revolves around smartphones, but researchers have found that less advanced “feature phones,” still used by the majority of people around the world, also are vulnerable to attack. Feature phones have Web browsing, MP3 players, and other programs standard voice-only
In a digital heist reminiscent of a John le Carré novel, more than $9 million worth of greenhouse-gas emissions permits were stolen from the Czech Republic electricity and carbon trading registry this week and transferred to accounts in other countries, at the same time as the Prague-based registry office was evacuated due to a bomb threat. That electronic theft, the latest in a series of security breaches affecting the market for carbon
Facebook announced today that it is now offering users the ability to use encryption to protect their accounts from being compromised when they are interacting with the site, something security experts have been seeking for a while. The site currently uses HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) when users log in with their passwords, but now everything a user does
George Mason researchers demonstrate how to take control of a laptop via a USB-connected smartphone at the Black Hat DC conference.(Credit: Angelos Stavrou) Two researchers have figured out a way to attack laptops and smartphones through an innocent-looking USB cable. Angelos Stavrou, an assistant professor of computer science at George Mason University, and student Zhaohui Wang wrote software that changes the functionality of the USB driver so that they could launch a surreptitious attack
Niels Provos heads up Google’s Safe Browsing initiative, which flags sites containing malware.(Credit: James Martin/CNET) During 2000 and 2001, Ph.D. student Niels Provos would occasionally drive from the University of Michigan across the border into Canada and spend the weekend working on an open-source cryptography project that would end up becoming one of the most widely used network security technologies ever: OpenSSH. He
The criminal complaint includes Internet Relay Chat logs purportedly between Auernheimer and Spitler. Click to enlarge.Two men were charged with computer crimes today for allegedly hacking into AT&T servers and stealing e-mail addresses and other information of about 120,000 iPad users last summer.Andrew Auernheimer, 25, was arrested in his home town of Fayetteville, Ark., while appearing in state court on unrelated drug charges, and Daniel Spitler, 26, of San
The Web site of the hacker group whose members were charged with computer crimes after they exposed a hole in AT&T’s site for iPad customers last year was hacked today. For at least a few hours an obscenity-laden message on the Goatse Security site said: “I have taken the liberty of exposing your gaping hole…As you are a group of self-aggrandizing [profanity redacted], I
The 2.8+ million followers of the Mark Zuckerberg page on Facebook saw an unusual update hit their walls yesterday from the firm’s founder and CEO. Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page on Facebook briefly featured a post, complete with misspellings, indicating he would consider a whole new revenue model for the social media titan: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest
Today is Oracle’s Patch Tuesday and here’s a quick glimpse of what to expect: 66 new security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of Oracle database server products and components. According to an advance notice from Oracle, six of the vulnerabilities affect is flagship Database Server with two carrying a “high risk” label because they may be remotely exploitable without authentication (may be exploited over a
Visitors to the Facebook page of French President Nicholas Sarkozy were greeted with a strange post by the politician on Sunday night, roughly translated that given exceptional circumstances in the country he has decided in his soul and conscience not to seek re-election following his first term. Later on Sarkozy, ostensibly the real one this time, published a follow up message that his
Facing a wave of criticism for not offering a secured browsing option, Facebook has finally added a new feature to browse the popular social network on a secure connection (https). However, the https:// browsing is not turned on by default and must be manually activated from an “Account Settings” page on Facebook. Here’s the company’s explanation: If you’ve ever done your shopping
