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Saying Farewell

Saying FarewellRE: FarewellWell I just wanted to say that the Zero day blog wont be the same - you had a very no bs attitude when blogging about issues and that was awesome. Reading your blogs was a great source of security inforation for me. Good luck man and hopefully...

Tags: Blogging, Nate, Saying Farewell

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1

Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1Way to go Nate, Billy, and Rob.Congrats on the Pwnie, I read about it at Dark reading, but haven't actually read your current blog yet.That bit with Kaminsky was...odd. Booing? Really?edit: Now that I've read your blog, I've got to say that I really like...

Tags: Blogging, Black Hat

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijack

Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijackInside Jobwhat a coincidence: the driver happened to stop for a paper and candy bar right at the spot where a couple of thieves saw an opportunity to take a van with a couple of cardboard boxes in them. ;)RE: Passports worth £2.5...

Tags: SECURITY, van, Nate, Passports worth, attack

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Code Diffs for DNS Exploit Code

Diffs between revisions of the exploit code released by HDM and |)ruid. Generated by Billy Rios. by Nathan McFeters

Tags: Billy, code, diffs, DNS, Domain Names, Exploit, Exploit Code, HDM, Internet, McFeters, Nate, Nathan McFeters, Networking, Revision, Rios, screenshots, |)ruid

Image galleries 2008-07-23

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announcedNot bad butI have to give Lamest Vendor Response to Apple for the Safari carpet bomb flaw.Ok, Nate, so here's a solution to your QuickTime problemDon't run your browser with administrative credentials... yeah, yeah you're going to counter with something that is probably mostly FUD based....

Tags: Digital music, SECURITY, Operating systems, Nate, Pwnie Award

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspectsCatching criminals is only the first step... Until judiciary systems around the world make a good example of these guys, nothing good will come out of these arrests. To reduce cybercrime we need effective deterrents. Slapping big fines that these guys are never going to pay...

Tags: Construction, cybercrime suspect, Romanian, Nate

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United KingdomDatabasesSince you're paying attention... look at bills, proclamations, edicts, etc. in other parts of the world including the USA.The senate just passed a sweeping communications bill that has the same effect as the UK's "proposal". Seems that the G8 or some other organization...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Nate, Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2, Microsoft Windows NT

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Finding the name behind the GMail address

Finding the name behind the GMail addressGmail USer NameSorry Dear it didnt worked i gave a try already, kindly dont tell that google has fixed it by now, let me know if it really works....It doesIt does really work, I tried it this morning, and also noticed that someone tried...

Tags: Google Inc., Gmail-address, Nate

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.

Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.And used "roll" instead of "role" in the post"TSA actually discusses FAMs increasing roll post 9/11..."From this statement, I would guess that the TSA is somehow increasing their spin? ;)You misspelled 'Knew'on your poll ;-) ...

Tags: Transportation, Airliners, Snake, airport security, Nate, Transportation Security Administration, Nope, Federal Reserve Board

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90ò0of desktops currently at risk*

Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90ò0of desktops currently at risk*RE: Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90�0of desktops currently at risk*I have been trying to d/l the upgrade all morning & get error 1101. I followed all the steps outlined in the error, but still can't upgrade...

Tags: Web browsers, JRE Version 6 Update 7, Sun Microsystems Inc., JRE, Nate, Java, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

Kaminsky and Ptacek comment on DNS flaw

Well, well, well, what a day for security news! I got a chance to get the scoop word of mouth from Dan Kaminsky of IOActive (pictured above [image courtesy of quinnums]) and Thomas Ptacek of Matasano pictured below on the DNS flaw that's been all over the...

Tags: DNS, Flaw, Nate, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-08

C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?

C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?C doesn't have memory corruption flawsC provides access to memory and leaves it as an exercise for the developer to program appropriately.Welcome back, pointer madness and memory leak.We web developers love to trade productivity, garbage collection and code maintainability /...

Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, C, browser scripting language, scripting language, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!Airport SecurityI'm fairly sure if anyone was to see me naked... their eyeballs would no longer function anyway. I say go ahead, it's more a punishment for them than me. But I can certainly understand why many people would find...

Tags: airport security, body scanners!, scannerS!, Nate

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilities

An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilitiesIt does work!Hi Nate,I couldn't agree more! We changed our approach to application security around 1 year ago and one of the core changes was that security is as much of a defect as a functional issue. It really has made a world...

Tags: Nate, Web 2.0 vulnerability, security, Web 2.0, vulnerability, Web

Discussion threads 2008-06-29

Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride

Security researchers hack the London underground train for free rideHow do you do this?Hey Nate, You guys post awesome information for people aspiring to be Security Testers. Could you help me learn this trade? How and what do I have to do?Umm...It's quite a lot to cover. Do you...

Tags: RFID, London Underground, Nate, security

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Fired Director of IT acused of destroying organ donor information of former company

Fired Director of IT acused of destroying organ donor information of former companyIt just goes to show...... that the thinking that the greatest security threat to any organization is its employees... and especially disgruntled ex-employees who are allowed to keep the keys to the kingdom.RE: Fired Director of IT acused...

Tags: SECURITY, organ donor information, FIRED, Nate

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

AV in the cloud... wait, what?

AV in the cloud... wait, what?further adieu? :-DHow about 'further ado'... ;-)It is a gneiss article all in all though.That original article isn't just vague,it is downright poor.If you haven't called into question some bad AV depending on what is really going on at Trend Micro, you've definitely called into...

Tags: Nate

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

I'm stepping aside...

I'm stepping aside...Thanks Larry!Larry,Thanks for sticking by and helping me out in all the transition process. Thanks to you and Ryan for bringing me along as well! I'll keep reading you on BTL!-NateLet's hope they changeRyan Naraine's photo. His previous one was creepy.Hey!I resemble that remark. Knock...

Tags: Ryan Naraine

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Microsoft Blue Hat v7

Microsoft Blue Hat v7 - Nate McFeters's pics from Microsoft Blue Hat v7 in May '08. by Nate McFeters

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Nate McFeters, tech action, Microsoft, Blue Hat, v7, nate, mcfeters

Image galleries 2008-05-06

Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners

Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winnersSo NO, we did not duplicate it on any other platform.What Nate states is this is a compiler issue with a polymorphism/name mangling bug. Therefore, it is not a Adobe coding issue. So my questions still remain:1) Have you duplicated this on...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), data execution prevention, Vista Pwn2Own, Nate, flaw, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-04-02