A hardware hacking expert here at Defcon18
successfully faked several attendees’ cell phones into connecting to his
phony GSM base station during a live demonstration that had initially
raised concerns at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
IT security researchers Nicholas Percoco and Christian Papathanasiou demonstrated what they claim is the first rootkit for Android. Their aim was to show how slight the obstacles to the development of a such a rootkit are and how powerful the result can be. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch on Monday for a critical vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows. The company didn’t identify which flaw it will be patching, but the description of the vulnerability is a close match to the LNK flaw that attackers have been exploiting for several weeks now, most notably with the Stuxnet malware.
Most respondents in a recently released RSA study (93.2%) answered “Yes” when asked if allowing
employees to connect their personal mobile devices to the corporate
network poses a security threat to their organization, but only 1.8%
reported a “serious incident” as a result of an employee’s mobile device
use. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
Hackers appear to be increasingly counting on configuration problems and programming errors rather than software vulnerabilities in order to steal information from computer systems, according to a new study based on U.S. Secret Service investigations. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
Two years after a major flaw was exposed in the
Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), a major upgrade to the
infrastructure protocol that fixes that weakness is now up and running
in all of the Internet root servers. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
LAS VEGAS–Security technology and practice have advanced quite a bit in the past few years, but one thing that has become clear is that whatever gains have been made are just not keeping pace with the innovation of attackers. The advances being made by malware authors and crimeware gangs are keeping them well ahead of the curve and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, researchers say.
A researcher has uncovered a sophisticated check counterfeiting ring
that uses compromised computers to steal and print millions of dollars
worth of bogus invoices and then recruit money mules to cash them. Read the full article. [The Register]
LAS VEGAS — Microsoft today released a new tool to help IT administrators backport anti-exploit mitigations like ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) and DEP (Data Execution Prevention) to older versions of Windows.
LAS VEGAS — Adobe’s push to beef up its security posture took another leap forward here with the announcement of plans to start sharing details on software vulnerabilities with security vendors ahead of time to help reduce the window of exposure to hacker attacks.
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