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- 10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai Zovi
- 10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai ZoviI knew it, this guy is a fake!!Hang on, here we have a hard-core hacker who does this stuff in his spare time probably in his sleep, yet sounds like a perfectly normal, average person. He cant be real!Hasn't Dino Dai Zovi...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Operating systems, Dai Zovi, Dino Dai Zovi, shell, exploit, hacker, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
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- Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle
- On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...
- Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- How Snow Leopard can save Mac OS X from malware attacks
- How Snow Leopard can save Mac OS X from malware attacksBrilliantWell played Dino. For all of the positive of Mac not having the rough history of M$ with regards to being hacked, there are some very real concerns there. It'd be great to see this new version take...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Snow Leopard, malware attack, Apple Macintosh, malware, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- How Snow Leopard can save Mac OS X from malware attacks
- Guest Editorial by Dino Dai Zovi As reported by Intego and Matasano Security, a new local privilege escalation vulnerability has been found that gives local root access on Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard. While Intego calls this a critical vulnerability, I'm mostly with...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Vulnerability, Malware, Attack, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Security, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Software, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- 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
- News to know: Apple; AMD; Metasploit; Yahoo; Open SUSE
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Wagering on WWDC 2008 TUAW: Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? News.com: Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday Tech Trader Daily: How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone? ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., SuSE, E-TEN, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Flash attack may as well have been zero-day
- Guest Editorial by Dino Dai Zovi It has almost been a week since the Adobe Flash zero-day attack false alarm. Since then, a number of people have called Symantec out as being irresponsible for crying wolf and announcing the raising the ThreatCon without fully researching the vulnerability (Full...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Attack, Flash, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Adobe Flash drive-by attacks redux
- Adobe has finally issued an almost-definitive statement on the reports of a zero-day attack targeting its flagship Flash Player, suggesting kinda that the vulnerability is already patched. In a progress report posted to the official Adobe PSIRT blog, David Lenoe stops short of making definitive statements on...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Vulnerability, Macromedia Flash Player, Malware, Attack, Malware Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Sixty Five Million And One BC (zip)
- Sixty Five Million And One BC is a platform adventure about a bunch of velociraptors trying to save the world from a comet. You see, around about 65 million years ago an enormous hunk of rock, 10 km across, hurtled down from space and smacked rudely into what eventually became...
- Tags: Bouncing Fox Productions, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-21
- Large Hadron Collider will put academic networks to the test
- The Large Hadron Collider LHC will be coming online this summer when its construction is complete outside of Geneva. Run by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the collider will be the largest facility of its type, designed to detect new types of subatomic particles, generate previously unseen...
- Tags: CERN, Network, Data, Internet2, Networking, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Vista falls in Pwn2Own contests final day to a flaw in Adobe Flash
- Update 3/29/2008: Just to clarify in case it wasn't clear, this is a flaw in an Adobe product, Adobe Flash, and not in a Microsoft product or in the Windows Vista operating system. This is important to note, as it's not quite as glamorous as the flaw that took down...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Flaw, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- CanSec West '08 - Pwn2Own contest rules announced
- The Pwn2Own contest rules were announced recently for CanSecWest '08 coming up next week. Unfortuantely, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, I won't be able to join in the fun as I will be presenting at Black Hat Europe next week, although...
- Tags: Competition, Apple MacBook, Patch Management, Patches, Notebooks, Gender And Diversity, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Human Resources, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Debating the most influential security folks list
- Ryan Naraine has cooked up a list of the most influential people in security. Here's the list packaged in a slideshow, which is annoyingly set on fast forward. For instance, I viewed two slides, went to bathroom and by time came back the gallery was over (and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Ryan Naraine, Team Management, Security, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Zimbra adds offline access, instant messaging
- Yahoo suitor Microsoft probably isn't looking for an open source collaboration suite with native email, contacts, calendar, and task synchronization to Outlook 2007, but the object of its affection just happens to have one. Zimbra, which Yahoo acquired in September 2007 for about $350 million in cash,...
- Tags: IM, Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra, Zimbra Desktop, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Open Source, Online Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Dino Glade Advanced (exe)
- Four different types of the dinosaurs: Ceratops, Diplodocus, Iguanodon, and Raptor are walking in the wood glade and the fifth type of Dino - Pteranodon is flying in the air. Both herbivores and carnivores live in harmony at this Dino Glade. The screensaver attracts with its 3D animated models, picturesque...
- Tags: Screensaver, Type
- Software downloads 2007-12-24
- News to know: Apple patches; Windows Mobile 7, 8; Adobe; Green tech
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple delivers hefty patch haul; Addresses Leopard flaws and Safari David Morgenstern: Are Mac users more honest than Windows users? Treating Leopard's Finder not-fully-loading bug WSJ: Apple meets with DoCoMo, Softbank over iPhone in Japan. ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Verizon Wireless, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- U.K. groups seek share in concert ticket resales
- U.K. groups seek share in concert ticket resalesThis is like charging you AGAIN ...This is like charging you again to let your friends watch a movieyou already purchased the DVD for. Scalping tickets should justplain be illegal! It is like the opportunists buying all theavailable drinking water during...
- Tags: scalper, Scalping, concert ticket resale, X-2
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- QuickTime hack allows Second Life currency theft
- Security researchers Dino Dai Zovi and Charlie Miller have found a way to exploit an unpatched QuickTime vulnerability to steal Linden Dollars from users in the Second Life virtual world. Dai Zovi the hacker behind the CanSecWest MacBook Pro hijack and Miller (creator of the first...
- Tags: Second Life, Attacker, Apple QuickTime, Avatar, Video, Duo, Digital Music, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- A phone that tells you what to do
- Researchers from the Palo Alto Research Center PARC have developed a software code-named Magitti for the Japanese company Dai Nippon Printing DNP. When this software is installed on your GPS-enabled mobile phone, Magitti starts to suggest you what to do in your area. You don't need to start a Web...
- Tags: Deployment, Software, Phone, Xerox PARC, Magitti, Tools & Techniques, GPS, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Will Microsoft follow European open source edict worldwide?
- Microsoft's anti-trust agreement with Europe, which is already being derided by developers here as "no big deal," may be less of a big deal than even that. It may, in fact, only apply to Europe. The Guangzhou Daily in southern China, near Hong Kong,...
- Tags: China, Developer, Open Source, Europe, Microsoft Corp., Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
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