As attackers have focused more and more of their energies on exploiting bugs in Web applications, and specifically memory-corruption vulnerabilities, researchers have followed along, trying to find new ways to protect users from these attacks. One of the newer entrants in this field is a tool called HeapLocker, designed to prevent heap-spray attacks.
Google has pushed out a new version of its Chrome browser, fixing two high-priority security bugs as well as several other flaws.
A new study finds that a tool used to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on behalf of whistle blower Web site Wikileaks may, itself, leak the identity of those running the software.
CLARIFICATION: This story corrects information concerning the availability of the stolen account names and passwords online.
Millions of Web users are waking up to news that broke over the weekend that systems belonging to Gawker Media were hacked and password data on millions of user accounts published on the Internet. How can you figure out if your e-mail and password were among more than a million that were stolen? Read on for instructions on figuring out if you’re one of the victims of the Gawker attack, and what to do about it.
Threatpost editor Paul Roberts discusses issues that matter to small businesses including the impact of the recent Wikileaks debacle and the need for improved endpoint security, patch management and data protection on Pulse Network’s ITEC This Week with hosts Tyler Pyburn and Bill Sell.
By Des WilsonThe illustrious op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal featured talk of cyberwar again this week with “How to Fight and Win the Cyberwar.” The piece, written by Mortimer Zuckerman, rehashes some important facts: U.S. critical infrastructure, including the parts of it owned by major enterprises, is under constant attack from cyber criminals, nation-states, and terrorists.
Two major online ad networks–DoubleClick and MSN–were serving malware via drive-by download exploits over the last week, experts say, after a group of attackers was able to trick the networks into displaying their ads by impersonating an online advertising provider.
The words “cyber war” were in the headlines this week, as controversy and debate about the leak of confidential diplomatic cables by Wikileaks reached a fever pitch. As speculation turned to the fallout from the ongoing publication of documents, the U.S. government laid the groundwork to prevent similar breaches while two browsers announced changes for upcoming builds. Read on for the full week in review.
Another serious remotely exploitable bug in Internet Explorer has cropped up, this one related to the way that IE handles a specific DLL library on pages that reference CSS files. There also is publicly available exploit code for the new bug.
Perhaps Sarah Palin is the news-world’s equivalent of Fonzie “jumping the shark” – the entertainment industry’s measure of when a show has peaked and, thus, begun an inexorable creative decline.
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