Cisco Issues 7 Security Advisories for IOS
Networking giant Cisco has published a total of 7 security advisories that address 11 individual vulnerabilities for its Internetwork Operating System (IOS) software. Read the full article. [The H Security]
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TJX Hacker Gets 20-Year Jail Sentence
Hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S.
District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role
in what prosecutors called the “unparalleled” theft of millions of credit card numbers from major U.S. retailers.//
U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris announced the concurrent
sentences in two 2008 cases against Gonzalez, 28, a Cuban-American, who
was born in Miami, where he lived when the crimes were committed. Read the full story [IDG News Service]
Majority of US, European Users Click on Spam
Latest spam report from Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) now includes data from European users. More than half (57%) of survey adults
have responded to spam in such a way that it supports the perpetrators
of the spam. This includes opening attachments to an email, forwarding
an email or clicking on links. Read the full article. [The H Security]
A new invention developed by Dr. Jacob Scheuer of Tel Aviv University’s
School of Electrical Engineering promises an information security
system that can beat today’s hackers — and the hackers of the future —
with existing fiber optic and computer technology. Transmitting binary
lock-and-key information in the form of light pulses, his device ensures
that a shared key code can be unlocked by the sender and receiver, and
absolutely nobody else. Read the full article. [ScienceDaily]
On Thursday, investigators in France arrested an unemployed 25-year old man who appears to have been responsible for the spectacular attacks on Twitter accounts that included those of US President Barack Obama and pop singer Britney Spears. Read the full article. [The H Security]
VANCOUVER, BC — Jumping through a series of anti-exploit roadblocks, Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil pulled off an impressive CanSecWest Pwn2Own victory here, hacking into a fully patched 64-bit Windows 7 machine using a pair of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities.
VANCOUVER, BC — The first day of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker
challenge wrapped up here today with a familiar face going after a
familiar target.
And, for the second year in a row, a German hacker known simply as
“Nils” exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
to take complete control of a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.
VANCOUVER, BC — For the third year in a row, Charlie Miller has
hacked into a MacBook by exploiting a critical Safari browser
vulnerability. At the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker contest here, Miller performed a clean drive-by download against Safari to get a full command shell on the MacBook.
VANCOUVER, BC — A pair of European researchers used the spotlight of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest here to break into a fully patched iPhone and hijack the entire SMS database, including text messages that had already been deleted.
A computer security professional who sold Internet Explorer exploit
code to credit card hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Tuesday to three years probation and a $10,000 fine. Jeremy Jethro, 29, was paid $60,000 by Gonzalez for a zero-day
exploit against Microsoft’s browser, “the purpose and function of which
was to … enable the conspirators to unlawfully gain access to, and
redirect, individual’s computers,” according to court records. Read the full article, [Wired]
