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- Adobe Flash Pwn2Own details released by ZDI...
- ... and unfortunately leaves much to be desired. I think many people were hoping for the disclosure from ZDI to contain a lot of details on what could've been exploited with this issue, unfortunately, the details just aren't really there. In fact, after reading it, I think I have more...
- Tags: User Interaction, Adobe Systems Inc., Vulnerability, Adobe Flash Player, ZDI Advisory, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
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- Opera bitten by 'extremely severe' browser bug
- Buried in the flurry of feature-related news surrounding the release of Opera 9.6 is the fact that the update fixes an "extremely severe" vulnerability that could expose Opera users to code execution attacks. According to an Opera advisory, which is not mentioned anywhere in Opera's giddy press...
- Tags: Opera Software, Web Browser, Applet, Rohlf, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick
- Following the recent release of a PoC demonstrating clickjacking in action, Adobe has released a security advisory offering solutions for customers and IT administrators on dealing with the flaw until they releases a Flash player patch before the end of October. "We have just posted a Security Advisory for...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Flaw, Macromedia Flash Player, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- AMD to spin off manufacturing
- Advanced Micro Devices will reveal a broad cost-cutting plan this morning that includes spinning off its manufacturing operations to a new joint venture largely funded by Abu Dhabi investment companies. It's a bold move for the chipmaker as it tries to maintain its position as the only real rival to...
- Tags: Abu Dhabi, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Semiconductors, Network Technology, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Hardware, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware
- In an underground ecosystem that is anything but old fashioned when it comes to abusing legitimate web services, cybecriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google's Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Malware, News Story, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobe
- Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by adopting Adobe Systems encryption on all television shows and movies found on its site, software maker Adobe said. SEATTLE--Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by adopting Adobe Systems encryption on all television shows and...
- Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Internet Video, Video, Encryption, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Reuters, Amazon.com, Adobe, pirates, streaming, security
- News items 2008-09-30
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"It sounds like the new SOP for PRPublic relations and "press releases" seem to be in need of some sort of help. Perhaps a consultation with Jennifer Leggio? I read more and more about companies and websites being inundated with press releases that they have specifically...
- Tags: public relations
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- News to know: Windows 7; Google; Pepcom gadgets; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista? Adam O'Donnell: Webmail providers can fix Palin hack-style problems Is the HTC Dream Google...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- VMWare issues 'critical' ESXi security advisory
- VMWare issues 'critical' ESXi security advisorynobody cares about ESXi and ESX 3.5 productsnobody cares about ESXi and ESX 3.5 products
- Tags: security, ESXi, VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- VMWare issues 'critical' ESXi security advisory
- VMware has released new ESXi and ESX 3.5 packages to fix a "critical" security issue that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to launch harmful code on the host running the hypervisor. According to this VMWare advisory, the patches fix two remote buffer overflows in the handling of...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Authentication, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Palin's Yahoo email hacked
- Wired reports that Sarah Palin's Yahoo account has hacked and several screenshots of her email posted to WikiLeaks (server not responding at this writing.) At least one of the emails has been confirmed as genuine: Amy McCorkell, whom Palin appointed to the Governor's Advisory Board on Alcoholism...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Sarah Palin's Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online
- On the heels of media reports that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was using a private Yahoo e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) to conduct Alaska state business, hackers have broken into the account and posted evidence of the hijack on Wikileaks. An activist group calling itself 'anonymous' claimed...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Sarah Palin, Wikileaks, E-mail, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Gauging Your Own Risk, On This Black Monday
- Don't you wish you had the same tools at your disposal to assess the riskiness of securities you hold, now that Wall Street is going through a Monday as black or blacker than the one in 1987. Bear Stearns, gone. Lehman Brothers, bankrupt....
- Tags: Asset, Stock, Wall Street, Risk Management, XLoss, Asset Management, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- WordPress shuts door on new PHP attack vector
- The WordPress patching hamster wheel keeps on rolling and rolling. According to an advisory from maintainers of the open-source blog software, WordPress 2.6.2 was released on September 8 to mitigate a new attack vector discovered by PHP security guru Stefan Esser. From the announcement:...
- Tags: Password, PHP, Attack Vector, Wordpress, Scripting Languages, Security, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list
- Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat listWhat use is this?What use is this post?This is just replicating the Microsoft advisory.You need to work a bit harder than this to be counted as "content".A list of the applications patched is about as useful as mammary glands on a...
- Tags: Patch Tuesday, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- 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
- Microsoft downplays BitLocker password leakage
- Microsoft is downplaying the severity of a password leakage issue in BitLocker, the full disk encryption feature built into Windows Vista, insisting that a real world attack scenario is "very unlikely." According to an advisory from iViZ, the password checking routine of Microsoft Bitlocker fails to sanitize...
- Tags: Password, Microsoft Corp., BitLocker, BIOS, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- VMware ships patches for 'highly critical' server flaws
- Virtualization specialist VMware has shipped a mega-patch to cover several "highly critical" vulnerabilities affecting its server and workstation product lines. In all, the patch batch addresses at least 16 documented vulnerabilities affecting the VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Server and VMware ESX server. ...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Patch Management, VMware Inc., Flaw, Ip storage, Security, Servers, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
- Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...
- Tags: Black Hat, Hypervisor, Motherboard, BIOS Update, Intel Corp., Flaw, System Management Mode, Level Privilege, BIOS, Virtualization, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- iPhone passcode lock rendered useless
- Do not trust that passcode lock on Apple's iPhone. The feature, which lets users set a four-digit pincode to limit access to the device, can be easily bypassed with a few finger taps on the iPhone to give an intruder access to sensitive information. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Register, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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