The results of a hacking contest at the DEFCON conference shows that the largest U.S. corporations have a lot to learn. “If any of these targets had hired us to do a social engineering audit, we would have failed them,” an organizer said.
A run on programmable USB boards suggests that an open source version of the recent PSJailbreak could make it tough for Sony to stamp out PS3 piracy.
The countdown to the saturation of the IPv4
address supply is now down to a matter of months: and along with the
vast address space of the next-generation IPv6 architecture comes more
built-in network security as well as some new potential security
threats. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple’s new iTunes social network to punt survey scams. Read the full article. [The Register]
Mitigation has become the word of the moment at Microsoft, and the company on Thursday continued its recent flow of tools designed to lessen the effectiveness of certain attacks with the release of version 2.0 of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit.
Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and has included more than a dozen security fixes in the update. The new version, 6.0.472.53, was released two years to the day after the company pushed out the first version of Chrome.
Apple has shipped a new version of its iTunes media player to fix 13 security flaws that cold be exploited to launch attacks against Windows machines.
Social networking features, a rockin’ new logo and GUI improvements aren’t the only reason you should upgrade to iTunes 10, says Apple. The update to Apple’s popular music player software, released on Wednesday, also fixes a bunch of gaping vulnerabilities that could make earlier versions susceptible to Web based attacks.
In this video, Niklas Wolff of the CSIS Security Group demonstrates an exploit for the recent integer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader (CVE-2010-2862), disclosed at Black Hat in July, that allows remote code execution.
Online bank fraud, for all of its obvious ploys and tired tactics, is still a remarkably effective way to make money. Too lazy or clueless to get a real job? Go phishing. Lots of people are doing it, and by some estimates, it’s evolving into a nearly $1 billion business.
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