Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010 by Info Security News
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...
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010 by Info Security News
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...
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010 by Info Security News
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,...
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010 by Info Security News
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...
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010 by Info Security News
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...
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010 by Info Security News
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...
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010 by Info Security News
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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...
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010 by LinuxSecurity.com
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...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010 by Full Disclosure
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
Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
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...
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