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- Zero-day exploit released for unpatched Apple Airport Driver!
- The MoKB Month of Kernel Bugs has started and a zero-day kernel-level exploit for an unpatched Apple Airport Driver has been released to the public with a full proof-of-concept. The flaw was found by HD Moore of the Metasploit project and it will be rolled in...
- Tags: exploit, Apple Computer Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Apple patches Wi-Fi but refuses to give researchers credit
- [UPDATE 9/25/2006: The word "due" was dropped from the title because it is now disputed by Apple. Apple has issued a strong denial that anything useful was given to them and responded to this blog in detail.]After all the controversy, it turns out that there really are critical vulnerabilities...
- Tags: David Maynor, Brian Krebs
- Blog posts 2006-09-23
- John Gruber flames out during cross examination
- John Gruber at the Daring Fireball has done this super long analysis of the current Mac driver-gate fiasco. Gruber goes on record to state that "Brian Krebs has 'dugg' himself a mighty deep hole" and that I George Ou is "going down with the ship". At first glance...
- Tags: Brian Krebs, Maynor, Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- More on botnets
- More from Brian Krebs on botnets. According to one source, the problem of botnets is far greater than most security experts realize. Krebs interviewed David Dragon, a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech, and researcher with the Honeybee Alliance, an international volunteer group doing extensive studies on botnets. Dragon...
- Tags: Brian Krebs
- Blog posts 2006-02-19
- Hax0rs, botnets and adware
- Brian Krebs of the Washington Post has published a fascinating and powerful piece about botnets and some of the individuals behind them. Krebs interviewed a 21 year old man using the online name 0x80 who was making around $6,800 a month by taking control of unprotected computers with a worm...
- Tags: Brian Krebs, botnet
- Blog posts 2006-02-18
- 180solutions from the inside
- Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs blogged about his visit to 180solutions' headquarters in Seattle. Krebs talks about a discussion regarding 180's reported attempts to crack down on rogue distributors. The lawsuits 180 filed against 7 such distributors have been withdrawn because the defendants live outside the US...
- Tags: Brian Krebs, 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2005-10-23
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- Microsoft sneaks in Firefox extension via Update
- The good news is that Microsoft is writing extensions for Firefox. The bad news is, the Redmond giant is slipping the extension onto systems without notifying users and making it difficult to get rid of the extension. Even worse? It's an extension that allows Web sites to install software onto...
- Tags: Firefox Extension, Microsoft Corp., Security Update, Extension, Krebs, Security Administration, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2009-05-31
- Pirated Windows 7 leads to malware, botnet
- Several news outlets including eWEEK and Washington Post are reporting on a new piece of malware embedded into pirated copies of Microsoft's Windows 7 for the express purpose of building a botnet. According to researchers at Damballa, the bootleg copies of the new operating system have been...
- Tags: Researcher, Microsoft Windows 7, Malware, WaPo, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Heartland finds malware in bank card payment system
- Heartland Payment Systems, a publicly traded company that provides bank card payment processing services to merchants in the U.S., has suffered a malware breach that may be linked to a "widespread global cyber fraud operation." In a statement (see Adam O'Donnell's coverage), the company said its system...
- Tags: Bank, Payment, Malware, Fraud Operation, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Operational Accounting, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus
- One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses malware but Macs are automatically protected. As PC "ah-choos" his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly infers that he's immune to the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP
- Spammers are abusing Microsoft's online services at such an alarming rate that a non-profit spam fighting group now lists Microsoft as the world's 5th most spam-friendly ISP Internet Service Provider. The latest update of Spamhaus.org's list of the world's worst spam networks shows Microsoft at #5 because...
- Tags: Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Spam rates massively down on shutdown of rogue ISP
- Several major news outlets are reporting that the shutdown of a rogue ISP in the Bay Area has lead to a massive drop in the global amount of spam. While this is "good thing", this event is not an end of spam, nor is it even the beginning of...
- Tags: Shutdown, Spammer, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Going to the Beijing Olympics? Leave your gadgets at home or take steps to protect your privacy!
- Brian Krebs, digital security reporter Washington Post, advises Popular Mechanics readers to leave their electronic gadgets at home - along with any expectation of privacy. But what if you need to take a notebook with you, and you need to stay in touch with others? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Google Gmail, Password, Passphrase, Data, Privacy, Cell Phone, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Rise of the 'legit' malware sites
- About 75 percent of all Web sites serving up malicious code are legitimate sites that have been hacked/compromised, according to a new report from WebSense. This number validates statistics from ScanSafe showing a dramatic rise in 'good' sites being being used as a conduit for drive-by malware...
- Tags: Web, Vulnerability, Websense Inc., Malware, Spam, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Channel Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Black Hat talk on Apple encryption flaw pulled
- Brian Krebs from the Washington Post "Security Fix" Blog reported that one of the talks slated for next week's Black Hat convention on a previously undiscovered flaw in Apple's FileVault encryption system has been canceled, the researcher citing confidentiality agreements as the reason he will not be speaking. ...
- Tags: Black Hat, Researcher, Apple Inc., Flaw, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone security
- If you're waiting on iPhone 2 to standardize your business on the awesome new device (yeah, I'll be on line to buy one), you might want to pay attention to the conspicuous absence of iPhone security patches over the last four months. As WaPo's Brian Krebs reports,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Krebs, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Study: 637 million Google users surfing with insecure browser
- According to a new study from researchers at Google, IBM and ETH Zurich, there are about 637 million Google users surfing the Internet with a vulnerable Web browser. Using data from Google search queries and security vulnerability aggregator Secunia, the study HTML or PDF found that a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Botnets committing click fraud observed
- What's the current state of click fraud, and what tools and tactics do the people behind click fraud campaigns have in their arsenal? A recently analyzed affiliate based network for using botnets to commit click fraud provides a timely assessment of the situation, and provides evidential facts on the internal...
- Tags: Click Fraud, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Lawyers circle Sears over privacy
- Sears may have taken down a feature that allowed you to see anyone's purchase history, but not fast enough to keep the lawyers at bay. On Friday, KamberEdelson filed a class action complaint alleging that Sears ManageMyHome.com site violates the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act. The suit, first...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Privacy, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- OpenBSD team mocked at first ever 'Pwnie' awards
- OpenBSD team mocked at first ever 'Pwnie' awardsDavid Maynor definitely deserves a JeerHe has to be one of the most unprofessional bug hunters.Re: Maynor's bugI wonder when we'll get a comment from Mr. Ou regarding this one.Maynor's BugIt seems to me that the problem was that the judges here are...
- Tags: SECURITY, UNIX, team, OpenBSD, Apple Inc., David Maynor, Pwnie, Maynor, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
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