I attended SC World Congress in New York this week and a keynote from Cisco caught my attention: Securing the Cloud: Building the Borderless Network. I became fixated on the words used over and over by Joel McFarland. Borderless this, borderless that, borderless everything. This campaign started to bother me as this was a security [...]
A new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 has been identified by Chia-Ching Fang and the Taiwanese Information and Communication Security Technology Service Center that allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code. The attack is seeded by providing via e-mail or download a specially crafted PDF file which in current examples will then drop a malware executable as well as an unaffected pdf file.
A phish phry is a social gathering, and early Wednesday the FBI, US Attorney’s Office, the LA Electronic Crimes Task Force, and Egyptian authorities started working towards arranging the largest gathering of suspects indicted in connection with a single phishing scam to date. Dubbed “Operation Phish Phry”, this two year inter-agency inter-country investigation is rounding up 100 suspects including 53 from North Carolina, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles as well as 47 in Egypt accused of stealing more than a million dollars from two U.S. banks.
One of my favorite websites in the days of Windows 2000 Server was a project from a group of system managers from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; it was titled “Real Men Don’t Click”, and it was dedicated to accomplishing tasks solely using the command line interface (CLI). [...]
As widely reported, the major motion picture opening today, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was leaked on March 31st to major BitTorrent trackers and within twenty four hours had been downloaded some 75,000 times and to date more then 1mm. If the average movie ticket price is $7.18, then that’s potentially $7mm or more in lost revenue [...]
Anyone who looked at ESPN online today (04/27/09) may find themselves agreeing with Mr. Shakespeare. Starting a little after 4pm EST you may have noticed a spike in chatter on Twitter related to ESPN.com. A high profile web site defacement occurred on the sports news web site where the Cornify script was invoked by a Javascript using keystokes known as the Konami code.
