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Zero Day - Nov 12, 2008
The British Broadcasting Corporation (bbc.co.uk) was hit by a DDoS attack on Thursday, according to a statement sent to the Inquirer : “In a statement to the INQ, the BBC said the attack originated in a number of …
Also tagged: malware, hackers, botnets, pen testing, denial of service dos
Zero Day - Nov 11, 2008
According to a recently signed “Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008” in Pakistan, any person who commits cyberterrorism causing the death of other people will face death penalty or life imprisonment …
Also tagged: malware, hackers, botnets, governments
Zero Day - Sep 26, 2008
Aditya K Sood from the EvilFingers community, which disclosed the first Chrome DoS vulnerability at the beginning of the month, has released a proof of concept demonstrating a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability …
Also tagged: google, browsers, hackers, vulnerability research, exploit code, zero day attacks, pen testing, denial of service dos, google chrome
Zero Day - Sep 20, 2008
Norway’s largest BitTorrent tracker Norbits (norbits.net) with approximately 10,000 users, is currently under a DDoS attack launched from a group known as MORRADi, which is also speculating that it has managed to …
Also tagged: piracy, privacy, malware, hackers, passwords, botnets, denial of service dos
Zero Day - Sep 4, 2008
Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now? While Google’s Chrome team is cheering, Rishi Narang from Evil Fingers is typing and releasing a proof of concept for a denial of service vulnerability that is successfully …
Also tagged: research, google, browsers, hackers, vulnerability research, zero day attacks, responsible disclosure, pen testing, denial of service dos
Zero Day - Aug 28, 2008
Malware is reaching new heights, and going into Space through a removable media carrying the W32.Gammima.AG password stealing malware to the International Space Station. According to SpaceRef.com : “W32.Gammima.AG worm …
Also tagged: malware, hackers, passwords, anti virus, symantec, botnets, viruses and worms, pen testing, patch watch
Zero Day - Aug 27, 2008
Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed …
Also tagged: malware, hackers, passwords, botnets, data theft, pen testing
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 27, 2008
Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at …
Also tagged: hardware, virtualization, motherboard, bios, hypervisor, flaw, components, intel corp, ryan naraine, bios update, level privilege, system management mode
security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 26, 2008
Here's the simplest way to get arbitrary code execution in the browsers of millions of users -- ask for permission. by Jennifer Leggio
Also tagged: security, social networking, network, myspace, app, socnets, jennifer leggio, socnet
Zero Day - Aug 25, 2008
With Twitter’s continuing growth, its popularity is logically starting to attract the attention of malicious parties, like spammers, phishers, and malware authors who wouldn’t mind the fact that nobody is following …
Also tagged: web 2 0, malware, browsers, hackers, passwords, phishing, botnets, spam and phishing, arbitrary code execution, social networking applications