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New cloud-based service steals Wi-Fi passwords
published 90 days, 3 hours, 37 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 93 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes ago
Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:48:07 PM GMT Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:53:52 AM GMT
New cloud-based service steals Wi-Fi passwords
IDG News Service - For $34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says. Launched today, the WPA Cracker service bills itself as a useful tool for security auditors and penetration testers who want to know if they could break into certain types of WPA networks. It works because of a known vulnerability in Pre-shared Key (PSK) networks, which are used by some home and small-business users. (more)
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tags: security, Wi-Fi
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CISF and Application Portfolio Management - Erik Oppedijk - blog community
published 95 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 105 days, 15 hours, 50 minutes ago
Monday, December 07, 2009 12:51:49 PM GMT Friday, November 27, 2009 2:35:16 AM GMT
CISF and Application Portfolio Management - Erik Oppedijk - blog community
Microsoft is busy building a Security Infrastructure (or Portal) and is building the Connected Information Security Framework (CISF), a project by Mark Curphey, from the OWASP project. The goal for CISF is to combine all Security related information into a central location, with the focus on building blocks and customization. So CISF will become a Portal, with "Widgets" for presenting the various pieces of security information. Combine this with some analytics (BI), Workflow, tasks, risks assets, author... (more)
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tags: Microsoft, security
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Free Professional Grade Webcam Security Software | Hack N Mod
published 95 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 105 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes ago
Monday, December 07, 2009 12:51:49 PM GMT Friday, November 27, 2009 2:18:01 AM GMT
Free Professional Grade Webcam Security Software | Hack N Mod
Free Professional Grade Webcam Security Software The problem with most motion detection software for personal or business use it that they’re triggered by a leaf, animal, or other insignificant events.  Vitamin D, on the other hand, can detect movements of people, doors opening and closing, email alerts, and more. The diy security software works on PC and MacImpressive Features:“People Detection” instead of motion detection.Daily Highlight Reel – Summarizes the events of the day.Highly Customizable – ... (more)
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New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute - Network World
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Friday, September 04, 2009 7:16:10 PM GMT Friday, August 28, 2009 12:07:01 PM GMT
New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute - Network World
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack was developed by Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University, who plan to discuss further details at a technical conference set for Sept. 25 in Hiros... (more)
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Symantec identifies 'Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer' | Safe and Secure - CNET News
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:18:48 PM GMT Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:01:21 PM GMT
Symantec identifies 'Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer' | Safe and Secure - CNET News
August 19, 2009 5:42 PM PDT Symantec identifies 'Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer' by Larry Magid Symantec is out with its "Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer 2009," which it's calling "the worst of the worst" when it comes to malware threats. The security vendor says that "48 percent of the Dirtiest Web Sites are, well, dirty--sites that feature adult content." That me... (more)
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Microsoft IE 8 shines in Web browser security test - Network World
published 203 days, 22 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 210 days, 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:50:16 PM GMT Friday, August 14, 2009 4:45:45 PM GMT
Microsoft IE 8 shines in Web browser security test - Network World
Microsoft IE 8 shines in Web browser security test Firefox a close second in test paid for by Microsoft By Ellen Messmer , Network World , 08/13/2009 Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 rated tops among five browsers tested by NSS Labs for effectiveness in protecting against malware and phishing attacks—though NSS Labs acknowledges Microsoft paid for the tests. Nevertheless, the test process, which lasted over a two-week period in July at the NSS Labs in Austin, evaluated the browsers based on acc... (more)
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The Biggest Security Hole on the Web? | WebProNews
published 203 days, 22 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 210 days, 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:50:16 PM GMT Friday, August 14, 2009 4:43:13 PM GMT
The Biggest Security Hole on the Web? | WebProNews
The Biggest Security Hole on the Web? By Chris Crum - Fri, 08/14/2009 - 09:00 Security Company Points to Flash/Acrobat Reader Vulnerabilities Two weeks ago, Adobe released a critical patch for Flash Player and Acrobat Reader. According to online security company Trusteer, about 80% of users are still vulnerable, and perhaps more startling, the company views this as being possibly the biggest security hole on the Internet today. That 80% figure is based on Trusteer's installed base of over 2.5 ... (more)
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tags: Adobe, security
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Bug exposes eight years of Linux kernel • The Register
published 203 days, 22 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 210 days, 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:50:16 PM GMT Friday, August 14, 2009 4:41:09 PM GMT
Bug exposes eight years of Linux kernel • The Register
Bug exposes eight years of Linux kernel By Dan Goodin in San Francisco Posted in Security, 14th August 2009 00:54 GMT Linux developers have issued a critical update for the open-source OS after researchers uncovered a vulnerability in its kernel that puts most versions built in the past eight years at risk of complete takeover. The bug involves the way kernel-level routines such as socksendpage react when they are left unimplemented. Instead of linking to a corresponding placeholder, (for example, ... (more)
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tags: Linux, security
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Researchers "hack the vote" in real-world e-voting attack - Ars Technica
published 206 days, 4 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 211 days, 42 minutes ago
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:33:06 PM GMT Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:42:29 PM GMT
Researchers "hack the vote" in real-world e-voting attack - Ars Technica
A group of security researchers has published a fascinating study that demonstrates how to hack a Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine. We have already seen several electronic voting machines hacked by experts in controlled environments, but this study goes a step further and shows that it can be done in the wild without privileged access to source code or other specialized materials. The study was conducted by a group of voting machine security experts led by Ed Felten, the director of Princeton's Cent... (more)
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tags: government, security
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Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
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Friday, September 18, 2009 8:17:37 PM GMT Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:13:49 PM GMT
Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
August 6, 2009 4:32 PM PDT Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user by Elinor Mills A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive. The blogger,... (more)
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tags: security, social media
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Is Adobe the next (pre-2002) Microsoft? | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
published 216 days, 2 hours, 41 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 217 days, 5 hours, 31 minutes ago
Saturday, August 08, 2009 3:44:00 PM GMT Friday, August 07, 2009 12:53:36 PM GMT
Is Adobe the next (pre-2002) Microsoft? | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
August 6, 2009 4:00 AM PDT by Elinor Mills If you're a criminal and you want to break into a network, a common attack method is to exploit a hole in software that exists on most computers, has its fair share of holes, and isn't automatically updated. In 2002, that would have been Windows. Today, it's likely to be Adobe Reader or Flash Player, whose share of vulnerabilities and exploits are on the rise while Microsoft's is falling. Nearly half of targeted attacks exploit holes in Acrobat Reader... (more)
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XML flaw threatens millions of apps with DoS attacks
published 217 days, 5 hours, 36 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 217 days, 22 hours, 47 minutes ago
Friday, August 07, 2009 12:48:20 PM GMT Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:37:58 PM GMT
XML flaw threatens millions of apps with DoS attacks
XML flaw threatens millions of apps with DoS attacks By Ellen Messmer Created 2009-08-05 06:11AM Vulnerabilities discovered in XML libraries from Sun, Apache Software Foundation, Python Software Foundation, and the Gnome Project[1] could result in successful denial-of-service attacks on applications built with them, according to C... (more)
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Hacker's mother makes plea to Obama | Metro.co.uk
published 219 days, 4 hours, 28 minutes ago posted by http://pixycolors.wordpress.com/http://pixycolors.wordpress.com/ 224 days, 29 minutes ago
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:56:58 PM GMT Friday, July 31, 2009 5:55:18 PM GMT
Hacker's mother makes plea to Obama | Metro.co.uk
The mother of computer hacker Gary McKinnon has made an impassioned appeal to US president Barack Obama after her son failed in his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to America. The 43-year-old from north London, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome (AS), is wanted for trial on charges of hacking into US military networks. (more)
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Military May Ban Twitter, Facebook as Security ‘Headaches’ | Danger Room | Wired.com
published 222 days, 21 hours, 7 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 224 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes ago
Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:17:53 PM GMT Friday, July 31, 2009 3:59:26 PM GMT
Military May Ban Twitter, Facebook as Security ‘Headaches’ | Danger Room | Wired.com
The U.S. military is strongly considering a near-total ban on Twitter, Facebook, and all other social networking sites throughout the Department of Defense, multiple sources within the armed forces tell Danger Room. It’s the latest twist in the Defense Department’s tangled relationship with so-called “Web 2.0″ sites. But while earlier social media blockades have been thrown up over bandwidth and secrecy concerns, this fresh ban stems from fears that Facebook and the like make it far too easy for hacke... (more)
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tags: Facebook, security, social media, Twitter
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Christopher M. Park - Blog: Thoughts on Piracy and DRM
posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 225 days, 23 hours, 8 minutes ago
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:16:46 PM GMT
Christopher M. Park - Blog: Thoughts on Piracy and DRM
First, DRM Stinks I try to make it known that AI War doesn't contain any DRM -- there's a license key to transform the demo version into the full version, and that's it. No phoning home, no usage tracking, no limited numbers of installs, no crazy drivers that take over your system. DRM sucks, in so many ways, and I've always hated it. When I buy music, I use Amazon MP3 because it's DRM-free. When I have music, I want to be able to use it on any device I have, or any computer -- I use a laptop as wel... (more)
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Windows 7 RTM Cracked With OEM License Key - Tom's Hardware
published 225 days, 4 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 225 days, 23 hours, 32 minutes ago
Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:36:38 PM GMT Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:53:00 PM GMT
Windows 7 RTM Cracked With OEM License Key - Tom's Hardware
With every release of Windows is the inevitable race by the pirate community to crack it. Even with activation schemes, which make things considerably more challenging, hackers were able to find a way to activate Windows Vista with a special OEM key. This very same hack has now made its way to activate Windows 7 RTM. Such a key allows OEMs to pre-activate machines – something definitely not meant for the consumer market. The OEM activation system relies on a special BIOS ... (more)
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tags: security, Windows
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National Journal Online -- Tech Daily Dose -- Peer-To-Peer Networks Face Scrutiny
published 225 days, 4 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 226 days, 2 hours, 39 minutes ago
Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:36:38 PM GMT Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:45:19 PM GMT
National Journal Online -- Tech Daily Dose -- Peer-To-Peer Networks Face Scrutiny
Wednesday, July 29, 2009Peer-To-Peer Networks Face Scrutiny House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns on Wednesday was expected to blame the Bush administration for having a laissez-faire attitude that has allowed privacy and s... In his opening remarks, Towns pointed to an analysis by security experts at Tiversa and said specific examples of recent LimeWire leaks "range from appalling to shocking." • The Social Security numbers and family information for every master sergea... (more)
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The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) : Microsoft Security Advisory 973882, Microsoft Security Bulletins MS09-034 and MS09-035 Released
posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 226 days, 20 hours, 39 minutes ago
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:46:06 PM GMT
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) : Microsoft Security Advisory 973882, Microsoft Security Bulletins MS09-034 and MS09-035 Released
Today, we’re releasing guidance and security updates to help better protect customers from responsibly reported security vulnerabilities discovered in the Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL). Because libraries function as building blocks that can be used to build software, vulnerabilities in software libraries can be complex issues and benefit from what we call community based defense – broad collaboration and action from Microsoft, the security community and industry. Because of this, in addit... (more)
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New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth - Ars Technica
posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 227 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes ago
Monday, July 27, 2009 6:36:53 PM GMT
New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth - Ars Technica
For citizens of the US, the social security number (SSN) is the gateway to all things financial. It fills its government purpose of helping us pay our taxes and track our (in many cases, hypothetical) government benefits, and it has also been widely adopted as a means of verifying identity by a huge range of financial institutions. As a result, anytime you disclose an SSN you run a real risk of enabling identity theft. So far, most of the SSN-related ID theft problems have resulted from institutions t... (more)
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tags: government, security, SSN
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Shawn Wildermuth - Securing Web Services (Even with OOB)
published 227 days, 3 hours, 17 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 228 days, 32 minutes ago
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:07:25 PM GMT Monday, July 27, 2009 5:52:42 PM GMT
Shawn Wildermuth - Securing Web Services (Even with OOB)
Securing Web Services (Even with OOB) I was trading tweets today with @pauliom about whether RIA Services would solve some Auth problems he was having out of the browser.  While RIA does do some interesting things with roles/users, I mentioned that typical Forms Auth out of the box should just work. To that end I have created a simple example of how to protected WCF Services with Forms Auth (works with ADO.NET Data Services as well BTW).  Because I wanted to support it out of the browser as well, I u... (more)
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tags: security, WCF
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