Security researcher Aviv Raff (left) has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks....
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iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws
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Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
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From Russia with (political) love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia...
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Debian OpenSSL Vulnerability
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Debian's OpenSSL packages versions 0.9.8c-1 up to 0.9.8g-9 are affected by a highly critical vulnerability which may lead to weak cryptographic keys and potentially...
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When SQL Injections Go Awry, Incident Case Study
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It seems to be the "in-thing" these days - using an automated tool to perform SQL injections against vulnerable sites across multiple domains. Although...
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From the What's That Smell Dept.
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From The Register..."Researchers from Radboud University in Nijmegen revealed two weeksago they had cracked and cloned London's Oyster travelcard and theDutch...
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MozillaZine: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released
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Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 was released this week. The stability and security update to Firefox 2 fixes two security bugs, which are detailed in the Firefox 2.0.0.16...
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Romanian Whack-A-Mole and Linux Bots
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It doesn't always have to be the latest and greatest zero-day exploit that causes you to lose control of your computer or server to external attackers. Today's example...
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May's Microsoft Updates
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It's time once again for monthly updates from Microsoft.Microsoft Office Word and Publisher reportedly have Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities which could be exploited...
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Motorola Razr Vulnerability
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In mobile news: TippingPoint has reported a JPEG Processing Stack Overflow Vulnerability affecting firmware based Motorola Razr phones. The vulnerability was discovered...
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Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge
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From the Button down the hatches dept.: The number of brute-force SSH attacks is rising, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned on Monday. "[T]here has been a significant...
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Man offers reward to find robbers - BBC News
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BBC NewsMan offers reward to find robbersBBC News - 51 minutes agoA naked man who was stabbed and beaten by robbers who broke into his home has offered a £20000...
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Addressing the Security Issue
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Millions of people apparently have IPv6 addressing enabled on their machines, but they don't know it, plus they aren't adequately protected with their firewalls....
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One of Turkey's lead gay advocates murdered after returning from international gay gathering
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I doubt this is a coincidence. Turkey needs to enter the 21st century, or it will forever be stuck in the 19th, or worst.Ahmet Yildiz, 26, a physics student who...
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Police Job - Part One
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'Male, collapsed in alleyway ?attacked" We are supposed to wait for the police before we go to such jobs, just in case the attackers are still on scene. Like many...
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Delayed and/or bounced email to comcast.net
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Status (by robm at Fri May 30 01:48 UTC) The comcast.net domain was hijacked by some unknown attackers. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Domain-Hacked-94826 The...
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RIM fixes critical BlackBerry Enterprise Server bug
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Research in Motion patched a critical bug in its BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) Friday to stymie hackers hoping to break into company networks by tricking users of...
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Out-manned and out-gunned
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Jeff Bohren draws our attention to this article on Cyber Offence research being done by the US Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER). The article says:...
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Vulnerability Descriptions
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We now have vulnerability descriptions available from www.f-secure.com/vulnerabilities.Here's an example of one:First discovered on March 26th, Mozilla Thunderbird...
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Protected Member Access, Part Four
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In Part Two I asked a couple of follow-up questions, the first of which was: Suppose you were a hostile third party and you wanted to mess up the parenting invariant....
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Cybercrime Organizational Structures Evolve
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An anonymous reader writes "The latest findings of a report explore the trend of loosely organized clusters of attackers trading stolen data online being replaced by...