The Glider

“An operating system used in military fighter planes has raised the bar for system security as a new commercial offering, after receiving the highest security rating by a National Security Agency (NSA)-run certification program. Green Hills Software announced that its Integrity-178B operating system was certified as EAL6+ and that the company…

“Microsoft has explained why it took seven years to patch a known vulnerability. Fixing the bug earlier would have taken out network applications and potential exploits alike, it explained. Security bulletin MS08-068 fixed a flaw in the SMB (Server Message Block) component of Windows, first demonstrated by Sir Dystic of Cult…

A handful of security vulnerabilities have been fixed in the latest version of firefox. Fixed in Firefox 3.0.4 MFSA 2008-58 Parsing error in E4X default namespaceMFSA 2008-57 -moz-binding property bypasses security checks on codebase principalsMFSA 2008-56 nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() same-origin violationMFSA 2008-55 Crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManagerMFSA 2008-54 Buffer overflow in…

“The paper introduces a new method that enables an attacker to change the.NET language, and to hide malicious code inside its core. It covers various ways to develop rootkits for the .NET framework, sothat every EXE/DLL that runs on a modified Framework will behavedifferently than what it’s supposed to do. Code…

“DNSSec (Domain Name System Security Extension), which uses digital signatures to guard against forged requests, offers a means of making internet naming systems more secure. But even 15 years after the standard was developed its adoption remains low. Mockapetris blames problems in making the technology easy to deploy, delays in developing…

A co worker sent me this link yesterday afternoon. “Using what appears to be Visa’s mutant hybrid of a credit card and a pocket calculator, users can enter their PIN into the card itself and have a security code generated on the fly. The method can stop thieves in two ways….

“Kaspersky reports that the crackers are adding a JavaScript tag to the html of hacked sites. This causes surfers visiting the site to pull content from one of six gateway sites, which redirect to a server hosting malware located in China. A range of exploits are hosted on this site designed…

“With the news that Google’s Android shipped with an embarrassing security hole being followed by a simple two-step method to ‘jailbreak’ the OS, you’d think that the company had ironed out most of the remaining bugs – but you’d be wrong. According to ZDnet’s Ed Burnette, the open-source Linux-based smartphone platform…

A new whitepaper ‘Protecting a Web Application Against Attacks Through HTML Shared Files’ discusses the risks of user uploaded HTML files. You’ll notice this paper claims to have a ‘patent pending’ for the concept of splitting user uploaded files to another domain with a unique identifiers. “Many Web applications have a…

“The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today. At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of “phishing,” a form of…