admin @ January 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
At Google’s new experimental search features page, a total of five projects are available for users to try: Alternate view for search results, Keyword suggestions, Keyboard shortcuts, Left-hand search navigation, and Right-hand contextual search navigation. Users can only elect to use one experimental feature at a time, and the only reason that explains this […]
admin @ January 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
2007 A Hacking Odyssey – Reconnaissance
a tutorial by nokia
The aim of this series of papers that will take an in-depth look at how someone may target and electronically break into an organisation, is to educate people who may be tasked with looking after and securing a corporate network to do so in an effective manner.
My […]
admin @ January 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Global Islamic Media Front has released a new set of encryption tools to help militants conduct clandestine communications, according to a security firm.
Through its alleged contacts within the militant jihadist community, VeriSign staff have acquired a pre-release version of the group’s latest encryption tools called “Asrar Al-Mujahidin” or “Mujahedeen Secrets”, according to Rick Howard, […]
admin @ January 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A Florida woman who believed she was about to get fired has been accused of deleting $2.5m worth of computer files to seek revenge on her employer.
Jacksonville Sheriff’s officials say Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, used her own account credentials to access the server of Steven E. Hutchins Architects and delete seven years’ worth of drawings. […]
admin @ January 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
French bank Societe Generale said fraud by a single trader had caused it a 4.9 billion euro ($7.1 billion) loss and that it would seek emergency funds as a result, shocking battered markets.If fraud is proved, the loss will be the biggest caused by a rogue trader, ahead of the $2.6 billion hit to Sumitomo […]
admin @ January 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
But wait, a lot of people say at this point, why isn’t this a problem for Firefox, or Safari, or any other browser? The answer is that developers of many sites had worked around many of the shortcomings or outright errors in IE6, and now expected IE7 to work just like IE6. Web developers expected […]
admin @ January 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Threats against others on the Internet are just about as surprising as the sky being blue every morning. But some threats are more serious than others, and the list of victims seems to be expanding as more of the unwashed masses general public gets online. Online marketers are one of the newest groups to join […]
admin @ January 21, 2008 # One Comment
Someone has used SQL injection to wipe their entire database. There is no content left on that site at all.SQL injection works when a sloppy programmer passes a URL variable straight into a query without validating it. So if you have something like this:
SELECT article_title FROM table WHERE year = [URL variable]
And you pass “2007″ […]
admin @ January 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Of course, modern operating systems can leave copies of ” deleted” files scattered in unallocated sectors, temporary directories, swap files,remapped bad blocks, etc, but Gutmann believes that an overwritten sector can be recovered under examination by a sophisticated microscope and this claim has been accepted uncritically by numerous observers. I don’t think these observers have […]
admin @ January 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Speaking at a conference of security professionals on Wednesday, CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently declassified attacks while offering few specifics on what actually went wrong.
Criminals have launched online attacks that disrupted power equipment in several regions outside of the U.S., he said, without identifying the countries affected. The goal of the attacks was […]
admin @ January 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The vulnerability is in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, along with Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2002, Microsoft Office Excel 2000 and Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac, Microsoft said. If successfully exploited on a vulnerable computer, it could enable remote code execution, the company added.
Microsoft is now investigating public reports […]
admin @ January 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include […]
admin @ January 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A less extreme example again is that of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the authority charged with protecting US transportation systems, and supposedly those using them, recently detaining a five-year-old boy on the suspicion of being a terrorist. His name was similar to someone on the US “no-fly” list, which contains the names of […]
admin @ January 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A 14 year-old schoolboy hacked into a Polish tram system and used a remote control to change the direction of a number of vehicles.
Transport employees in Lodz immediately suspected outside interference when a driver who was trying to turn right found his tram veering to the left.
The tram’s back wagon was derailed and hit a […]
admin @ January 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With the help of security experts, we reconstruct a typical hack attack on two large organisations and walk through the steps that the head of IT should follow in such a case.
Monday, 9am
Blackjack, a hacker working from an internet cafe in London, is about to launch an attack on a major government agency. His aim […]
