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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

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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: Billy Rios, Black Hat, Cyberthreats, Nathan McFeters, Phishing, Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Viruses And Worms

Blog posts 2008-08-08

McAfee SiteAdvisor blocks SANS

Showing you just how much they understand about security, McAfee blocked the SANS website, sans.org, as well as giac.org and sans.edu, with their SiteAdvisor application, listing it as a "bad" site. Interestingly enough, SANS sites are some of the best sites to go to for security related...

Tags: McAfee Inc., McAfee SiteAdvisor, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-30

News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-22

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Attack, Flaw, Lifelock, Nathan McFeters, Nominee, Security, Vulnerability, XSS, XSS Flaw

Blog posts 2008-07-21

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

With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw

So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys.  Well, HD Moore set a new record...

Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007

Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007With all due respectsIt's good and rather funny to see them get caught with their knickers down. Hopefully the network will apologize to the attendees sure they will or at least show the outing on one of the news shows.more due respectYou're...

Tags: Undercover NBC Dateline

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

OpenBSD team mocked at first ever 'Pwnie' awards

LAS VEGAS -- The OpenBSD team has won an award for the most spectacular "mishandling" of a critical security vulnerability.Here's why:The OpenBSD team refused to acknowledge the bug as a security vulnerability and issued a "reliability fix" for it. A week later Core Security had developed proof of concept code...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Wireless, Windows Vista, Wi-Fi security, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Mozilla, Microsoft, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Apple

Blog posts 2007-08-02