Snoop Dogg joins cybercrime fight because ‘hack is wack’

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Posted by InfoSec News on Sep 02

http://gcn.com/articles/2010/09/02/hack-is-wack-with-snoop-dogg.aspx

By Michael Hardy
GCN.com
Sept 02, 2010

Hack is wack, fo' shizzle.

Ready to show off your mad freestyle rap skillz? Snoop Dogg and
Symantec's Norton are teaming up to sponsor a video contest for raps
about hacking, identity theft and computer viruses.

Yes, that Snoop Dogg. Yes, that Norton. Fo' realz y'all.

The contest is open now at www.hackiswack.com, and the deadline is...

Botnet takedown may yield valuable data

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Posted by InfoSec News on Sep 02

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183299/Botnet_takedown_may_yield_valuable_data

By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
September 2, 2010

Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking
down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers
responsible for most of the world's spam.

Thorsten Holz, an assistant professor of computer science at
Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany, said his group is working...

Russian Trojan blamed for credit card losses at US diner

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Posted by InfoSec News on Sep 02

http://news.techworld.com/security/3237726/russian-trojan-blamed-for-credit-card-losses-at-us-diner/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
01 September 10

Hundreds of lunchtime customers of a diner in the US city of Memphis are
believed to have had funds stolen from their debit and credit cards
after PCs at the venue became infected with malware.

Large numbers of customers reported having had funds taken after using
Jason’s Deli in recent weeks,...

Secunia Weekly Summary – Issue: 2010-35

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Posted by InfoSec News on Sep 02

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The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary
2010-08-26 - 2010-09-02

This week: 82 advisories

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Table of Contents:

1.....................................................Word From...

News of the World faces fresh phone hacking charge

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Posted by InfoSec News on Sep 02

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/02/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking

By Nick Davies, Vikram Dodd and Nicholas Watt
guardian.co.uk
September 2010

The government tonight came under pressure to set up a judicial inquiry
into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World after the paper
confirmed that it has suspended a journalist while it investigates new
allegations of the unlawful interception of voicemail.

The prime minister's...

Russian government email servers hacked

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Posted by InfoSec News on Sep 02

http://www.mn.ru/society/20100824/188002181.html

By Evgeniya Chaykovskaya
The Moscow Times
24/08/2010

On Monday it turned out that the Federal Service of Protection (FSO) is
not that good at protecting its own privacy. Yesterday internet forums
were bubbling with information about a hack into the FSO internal email
system.

The attack was aimed at an email server of one of the services’
departments, the FSO’s official representatives...

DARPA Soliciting Bids On Insider Threat Prevention

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Posted by InfoSec News on Sep 02

http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227300041

By Elizabeth Montalbano
InformationWeek
September 2, 2010

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a new
program aimed at quickly finding and stopping insiders from trying to
steal information from Department of Defense (DoD) computer networks for
use against the federal government.

To develop its Cyber Insider Threat...

Debian: 2102-1: barnowl: unchecked return value

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LinuxSecurity.com: It has been discovered that in barnowl, a curses-based instant-messaging client, the return codes of calls to the ZPending and ZReceiveNotice functions in libzephyr were not checked, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (crash of the application), and possibly execute [More...]

Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive

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Posted by paul . szabo on Sep 02

I wrote:

I now noticed:
An Intro to... Windows NT Security by Steve Sutton
http://www.blacksheepnetworks.com/security/info/nt/ntintrotosec.htm
mentions DLL spoofing and seems dated Oct 1997.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo psz () maths usyd edu au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia

Samsung Galaxy Tab Will Challenge Apple iPad, Dell Streak

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Samsung Galaxy Tab, an upcoming 7-inch slate running Google Android 2.2, will be the next big challenger to take a run at the Apple iPad's dominance of the tablet PC category. - Samsung's Galaxy Tab will be one of the first tablets to try to wrest market share from the Apple iPad. Unveiled at the IFA 2010 consumer electronics show in Berlin, the device features a TFT-LCD 7-inch screen and a Cortex A8 1GHz processor, and it runs Google Android 2.2. Along with Dell's rece...