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- Semantic Exchange offers online briefing exploring New Developments in Semantic Technology for the Enterprise
- The Semantic Exchange, a new membership organisation comprising many of the companies leading the way in commercialising semantic technologies, is beginning a series of promotional and educational activities with an online briefing tomorrow, 18 September. According to the free sign-up page, participants can; ...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional
- The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....
- Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- News to know: Cyber attacks; Google; Windows security; Gmail outage
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught Dancho Danchev: Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress ZDNet UK: Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows News.com: Defcon ends...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Russia, Windows Security, Cyberattack, Outage, Georgia, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out
- Earlier today I published a lengthy blog post questioning some of the sensationalist conclusions raised in press coverage of a paper presented by Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd at last week's Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas. This afternoon, I received an e-mail from Sotirov, who says he was "horrified...
- Tags: Technique, Black Hat, Microsoft Windows XP, Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Exploitation, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Internet, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly
- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactlyOh no!!Another Bott post!!!! I glad there is no more nonsense comparison between two different things.Um, Ed ...... I know you read the paper because I sent you the PDF, but it seems you failed to notice a few things.You accuse me of "alarming...
- Tags: Web browsers, Defense-in-Depth, exploitation, Microsoft Windows, memory corruption vulnerability, Web browser, security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly
- Oh dear. The Chicken Little contingent is out in full force. Break out your Kevlar helmets, everyone, because the sky is falling on Windows! At last week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, researchers Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd presented a paper that outlined some new attack vectors they had...
- Tags: Black Hat, Attacker, Windows Security, Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Defense, Memory Protection, Vulnerability Disclosure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2Dowd and SotirovYou mention Dowd and Sotirov's talk in passing. I'm intensely curious to read your take on their presentation when you get an opportunity to review their stuff. Is it on your blogging agenda?GreatSounds like lots of fun. Nice update. Don't know how you...
- Tags: Blogging, Sotirov, Dowd, Black Hat
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this long
- Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this longBest security is to take computers off the NetFor my computers at home, there is now only one that has firewalled access to the Internet. My kids' computers DO NOT. My media server DOES NOT. The PC with my finance stuff and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, UAC, administrative right
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Again, sorry for the late updates. Vegas is the kind of place that demands a lot of a person. Too many parties make it difficult to find time to blog on the conference. Pictures of the even are a bit sparse, due to consistently forgetting to bring my camera, but...
- Tags: black hat, microsoft corp., applet, image, vegas, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this long
- So, in a stroke, two security researchers Mark Dowd of IBM and Alexander Sotirov or VMware at Black Hat have set browser security back 10 years and rendered Vista's security have been rendered useless. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Paper, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Data Execution Prevention, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Security, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1
- Well, this is well late, but here's my recap of Black Hat Day 1. Sorry for the delay, but I've been terribly busy finishing up preparations for my Day 2 talk. The first talk I went to see, "Pointers and Handles, A Story of Unchecked Assumptions...
- Tags: Black Hat, Billy Rios, Dan, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Black Hat Sneak Preview
- Rob McMillan from IDG interviewed John Heasman and I today about the presentation we will be delivering with Rob Carter at Black Hat Vegas next week. The article has a good teaser about one of the more interesting of the many attacks we will cover, namely what we've coined...
- Tags: Black Hat, Java Applet, Web Application, Web Browser, Applet, Attack, GIFAR, Java, Programming Languages, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL researchers have developed a super-sensitive explosives detector which uses a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound. Interestingly, the technique they've used is based on earlier works of Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1880s. In their experiments, the researchers used three...
- Tags: Technique, Detection, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Laser, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride
- A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free. This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?
- Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?Gates will be missedI believe Ray Ozzie would be a great replacement for Gates on the speech / giving a MS vision front. Ray speaks very well. Maybe Ballmer could make him make 6 or more speeches a year and so some light promotion work....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, M$ Needs
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- 2008 Pwnie Awards
- Don't forget to go and vote on the Pwnie Awards, which will happen at Black Hat Vegas again this year. I don't want to campaign for votes, but I wouldn't be pissed if some of my loyal readers out there voted for me, Billy Rios, Rob Carter, and John Heasman and...
- Tags: Category, Nomination, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Black Hat '08 preview webcast on its way
- Ladies and gents, For those who hadn't heard, I will be presenting at Black Hat Vegas '08 this year with Rob Carter, John Heasman, and Billy Rios. Our presentation is called "The Internet is Broken: Beyond document.cookie - Extreme Client Side Attacks", which may sound like a...
- Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
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