Version 8.14.4 of Sendmail, the open source mail transfer agent (MTA),
includes fixes for several security vulnerabilities including some
integer overflows, memory leaks and for the SSL NUL character problem
disclosed in mid 2009. Read the full article. [The H Security]
The American Bankers Association and the FBI are advising small and
midsize businesses that conduct financial transactions over the
Internet to dedicate a separate PC used exclusively for online banking as they ahve become targets of banking malware. Read the full article. [The Last Watchdog]
The micro-blogging service rejects 370 passwords when new users sign up if
it thinks they are too easy to guess. However, bloggers recently discovered
that the list of banned passwords is embedded in the source code of the page
itself. Read the full article. [Telegraph UK]
In a proof of concept, researcher Nir Goldshlager demonstrated cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Google Calendar and Twitter that he said could be used to steal cookies and session IDs. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
MS accepts there is an “inconsistency” in how IIS 6 handles semicolons in
URLs, but it denies that this lends itself to hacking attacks. Read the full article. [The Register]
Notorious hacker Albert Gonzalez pleaded guilty Dec. 29 to conspiracy to hack into the computer networks of Heartland Payment Systems, 7-11 and Hannaford Brothers and faces sentencing between 17 and 25 years on top of his previous guilty plea for the TJX breach and others. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
At the 26th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, security researcher Fabian Yamaguchi demonstrated a number
of vulnerabilities that can apparently be found in many average
communication networks and affect all levels from the access layer to
the application layer. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Cryptographers have moved closer to their goal of eavesdropping on
cellphone conversations after cracking the secret code used to prevent
the interception of radio signals as they travel between handsets and
mobile operators’ base stations. Read the full article. [The Register]
Remember when the stolen V.A. laptop made headlines in May 2006 as the biggest breach ever? Here’s the top 10 data breaches by number of records affected. Read the full article. [Databreaches.net]
If you’ve been doing some last minute Amazon holiday shopping on Wednesday evening, you’ve probably noticed that Amazon’s web site was sluggish and, at times, completely down; The same fate greeted Wal-Mart, Expedia, and a number of smaller sites. Read the full article. [Mashable]
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