Steve Jobs Dead At 56
Outpourings of grief came from all corners of the technology world on Wednesday after Apple Computer announced that its co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs had died of cancer at the age of 56.
Paul Roberts
Malware Using White Lists, Forgery, Kernel Attacks To Stay Alive
BARCELONA — Rootkit programs are increasingly mimicking anti virus programs: adopting self protection features and even application whitelists to maintain control over the systems they control, according to a presentation at the annual Virus Bulletin Conference.
The Five Security Improvements Apple Needs To Make in iPhone 5
With the resignation of longtime CEO Steve Jobs still looming in its rear view mirror, Apple Computer will be on the marketing offensive this week when it releases a major upgrade to its popular iPhone mobile phone line and talks up a pending update to its iOS mobile operating system.
Microsoft was forced to push out an emergency update to its Security Essentials and Forefront products Friday after users complained that an updated virus signature intended to spot the Zeus Trojan was, instead, flagging and even removing instances of Google’s Chrome Web browser.
Research in Motion’s phones are considered the premiere maker of enterprise-grade mobile devices. But now a Russian firm says that a forensics tool it developed can reliably crack strong passwords used to secure the company’s BlackBerry phones.
One of the biggest talks at this year’s Black Hat Briefings was a presentation on the structural problem with digital certificate authorities by Moxie Marlinspike. The subsequent hack of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar and a damning report on that attack only weeks later, and more recent reports of exploitable holes in both TLS and SSL only underscore the problems facing the entire PKI-based system for ensuring online identities.
The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests spilled into the digital realm, as a group linked to the Anonymous hacking collective spilled information about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, along with e-mail addresses for much of the investment bank’s senior leadership.
The Stuxnet worm may be the most famous piece of malicious software ever written. When it was first detected, a little over a year ago, the worm sounded a warning to nations around the world that critical infrastructure systems were potential targets of attack for foreign governments and cyber criminal organizations alike. But with the anniversary of the Stuxnet worm’s discovery just past, the Department of Homeland Security admits that it is now reevaluating whether it makes sense to warn the public about all of the security failings of industrial control system (ICS) and SCADA software.
Adobe said on Friday that its products would soon reject certificates issued by the disgraced Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar following the Dutch government’s decision, Friday, to revoke DigiNotar PKIoverheid CA certificates used by government agencies on September 28.
The FBI continued its pursuit of members of the hacking group LulzSec on Thursday, arresting a 23 year old Phoenix, Arizona man believed to be part of an online hacking crew that attacked systems belonging to Sony Pictures, the Bureau said in a statement Thursday.
