http://praetorianprefect.com Information security, a little slower...a little deeper Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:59:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/07/turning-an-atm-into-a-slot-machine/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/07/turning-an-atm-into-a-slot-machine/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:50:13 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=4600 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/07/turning-an-atm-into-a-slot-machine/feed/ 9 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/02/microsofts-google-attack-patch/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/02/microsofts-google-attack-patch/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:18:26 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3421 George V. Hulme shared the picture below from CNBC, perhaps the most amusing way seen thus far of describing the patch for the 'Aurora bug' that famously affected Google late last year.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/02/microsofts-google-attack-patch/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/adobe-util-printd-zero-day/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/adobe-util-printd-zero-day/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:02:21 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2427 released a critical update for its Flash Player on patch Tuesday last week. The attack uses a weakness in a function called util.printd along with a heap spray implemented with Javascript to attempt to inject shell code.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/adobe-util-printd-zero-day/feed/ 2 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:39:55 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2088 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/the-barack-obama-donations-site-was-hacked%e2%80%a6err-no-it-wasn%e2%80%99t/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/the-barack-obama-donations-site-was-hacked%e2%80%a6err-no-it-wasn%e2%80%99t/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:45:53 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=1170 calendar application at Roosevelt University. In the process of finding out how that would be possible, a real web site vulnerability on the Obama web site reveals itself.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/the-barack-obama-donations-site-was-hacked%e2%80%a6err-no-it-wasn%e2%80%99t/feed/ 14 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/07/microsoft-video-activex-control-vulnerability/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/07/microsoft-video-activex-control-vulnerability/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:04:23 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=319 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/07/microsoft-video-activex-control-vulnerability/feed/ 2