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- DEFCON 2007 - Wall of Sheep (shame)
- DEFCON 2007 - Wall of Sheep shameNot goodThis sense of smug superiority can't end well. It's a useful service, but let's not forget they're compromising the easiest targets first and foremost. Let's keep our perspective, please....and yet another homage to Maynor? Wow. Just wow. I hear there were actually other...
- Tags: E-mail providers, wall, Maynor
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
- 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
- How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers
- How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchersNever mind the horse head George....You're in for it now!This has always had the love stink of Jobs over it. Good for you in showing what has happened.I just hope you're tough enough for the backlash...Be at peace with yourselfToday is a new day,...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web, Apple Inc., Maynor
- Discussion threads 2007-03-20
- More on Maynor
- More on MaynorNo offence Jason, but WTF happened to "Full-disclosure"???You cannot just quote a piece and then state its origin as "someone in the know".Let this person who is calling Maynor a liar come out in the open and say it. If Maynor wasn't lying, then I would expect a...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Maynor, video
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Maynor demos MacBook Wi-Fi hijack, admits mistakes
- Maynor demos MacBook Wi-Fi hijack, admits mistakesWhat a jokeLet's recap:1. Maynor demos what he claims is a hack to Apple's airport drivers. It soon turns out that it's a third-party card that works in any machine, and that Maynor hates Apple and Mac users in general because they are smug...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Patches, Apple MacBook, Maynor, Apple Inc., Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- MacBook WiFi hacker cancels talk
- MacBook WiFi hacker cancels talkIs Apple responsible?You seem to have missed this part of the Boing Boing piece:"one colleague at the show said she spoke to an Apple employee in the audience who denied that Apple had leaned on SecureWorks"the Golden RuleIt's the Golden Rule... He who has the Gold...
- Tags: Notebooks, Patches, Wi-Fi, MacBook WiFi hacker, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Maynor
- Discussion threads 2006-10-02
- MacBook WiFi hacker cancels talk
- Instead of a planned presentation WiFi hacker Johnny Ellch delivered only a prepared statement at ToorCon, San Diegos annual security conference on Saturday.I reported last week that Maynor and Ellch were scheduled to speak at ToorCon, where the inflammatory duos "complete story" of their infamous MacBook WiFi hack was to...
- Tags: SecureWorks Inc., MacBook WiFi
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Clampdown at Toorcon imminent for Apple Wi-Fi flaw
- In a possible repeat of what happened at last years Black Hat convention with Mike Lynn and Cisco , Ive just received word from Elizabeth Clarke who is the VP of Corporate Communications at SecureWorks that David Maynor will not be presenting at Toorcon. Even as late as yesterday...
- Tags: Maynor, SecureWorks Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- David Burke dissects Apple's response on SecureWorks
- David Burke dissects Apple's response on SecureWorksGeorge, I am disappointed in you...Just was I was starting to like you....and you bring back your imaginery friend David Burke...Here is a hint. There are no "legal professionals" Either you are a lawyer, or not. I am lawyer, but in...
- Tags: UNIX, HERE IS, David Burke, Apple Inc., Maynor, SecureWorks Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-25
- David Burke dissects Apple's response on SecureWorks
- David Burke who is a very sharp reader decided to chime in on Apple's seemingly firm denial that SecureWorks supplied nothing of significance to Apple for the Apple Wi-Fi security patch. This isn't the first time Mr. Burke has weighed in here on Real World IT, he took John...
- Tags: SecureWorks Inc., Maynor, Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- Apple strongly denies getting information from SecureWorks
- Apple strongly denies getting information from SecureWorksStrong wordsGeorge:That is a strong denial. Thank you for posting that.apologies...are in order from those persons that have been accusing Apple of "parsing" words. This is as strong an indication so far that M&E and SecureWorks have not been playing this thing...
- Tags: SECURITY, Blogging, Apple Inc., SecureWorks Inc., Maynor, JetJaguar
- Discussion threads 2006-09-25
- Apple patches Wi-Fi but refuses to give researchers due credit
- Apple patches Wi-Fi but refuses to give researchers due creditthanks for following up on thisI was wondering what happened after Apple accused the researchers of falsifying the story. This episode clearly brings out Apple's true colors.Still a HoaxThe simple fact is this "hack" has not been demonstrated on a stock...
- Tags: Notebooks, Wi-Fi, Maynor, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, SecureWorks Inc., David Maynor
- Discussion threads 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
- MacBooks and death threats
- The soap opera of the MacBook that was hacked wirelessly takes another turn.Back in early August hackers Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch and David Maynor demonstrated how they exploited a defect in a wireless device driver to compromise a MacBook notebook computer. I blogged about the exploit and later updated my...
- Tags: Maynor, Apple MacBook
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- Vicious orchestrated assault on MacBook wireless researchers
- There has been a vicious orchestrated assault on researcher David Maynor and the company SecureWorks claiming that the Maynor and SecureWorks falsified their research presented at Black Hat 2006. In a video demonstration, Maynor completely took over an Apple MacBook using a vulnerability in a third party wireless driver....
- Tags: Maynor
- Blog posts 2006-08-20
- Breaking into a laptop via Wi-Fi
- Breaking into a laptop via Wi-FiSo even with----WPA2 with 16-character super-strong letter/number-combo "words-tha're-no'-in-dictionary" password?Or, even if you go into Network Connections from Control Panel, right-click a network connection and choose properties, go to Wireless Network page, click Advanced in the bottom of the page, and select Infrastructure Networks Only.Am I...
- Tags: Notebooks, SECURITY, Wi-Fi, Apple MacBook, Maynor, laptop computer, Apple HAD, wireless, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2006-08-02
Additional Resources
- DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabs
- Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now? While Google's Chrome team is cheering, Rishi Narang from Evil Fingers is typing and releasing a proof of concept for a denial of service vulnerability that is successfully crashing the Chrome browser with all tabs. According to Narang's advisory : "An issue...
- Tags: Google Inc., DOS, Vulnerability, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Apple bolsters QuickTime defenses... or do they?
- A couple of great articles came out recently, one from Ryan Naraine and one from our very own Larry Dignan, about some of the defenses that Apple is trying to build into QuickTime to defend Vista users. As we've talked about here before, with Vista, it's all...
- Tags: Apple QuickTime, Blog, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Data Execution Prevention, ASLR, David Maynor, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Blogging, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security Features
- Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security Features"Exploitation is Still Possible...""What’s really important to gather from all of this, is that while Windows has made major improvements to it’s security..."itsObsessive-compuslsive or not, it's "its".--GlennRE: Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security FeaturesVista...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Third-Party Vendor, Exploitation, Problem Here, Still Possible, Third-Parties Neglect, Implement Vista Security Features, Implement Vista, security, Microsoft Corp., exploitation
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security Features
- Consider this, Microsoft spends huge amounts of dollars and manpower creating protections for the Vista operating system, yet we still have old school vulnerabilities. Why? The answer is simple really, third-party created code is not stepping up and taking advantage of these powerful protection mechanisms. I'm not...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Data Execution Prevention, Exploitation, Address Space Layout Randomization, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
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