Archive for September, 2011

Riley Hassell: Android flaw can disable, corrupt AV tools

Friday, September 30th, 2011

L33tdawg: Riley’s spilling more details at HITBSecConf2011 – Malaysia in just 2 weeks… Online registration is open till the 7th and further details of his presentation is here.
Riley Hassell, founder of Privateer Labs, a boutique security firm, told…

PwC: Telecoms Are Overconfident About Security

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), telecom executives are “overconfident in the effectiveness of their information security practices.” That’s the interpretation of the data from the 2012 Global State of Information Security Survey, which gathe…

Hacking boosts students’ infosec skills

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

L33tdawg: Precisely what we’ve been saying to Malaysian .edu folks all these years and why we organize things like Capture The Flag – Tower of Hackf00 Madness!
Computer hacking skills should be taught to cybersecurity students to “know the enemy” and …

Windows 8 anti-virus has a long way to go

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

When Microsoft unveiled the Developer Preview of Windows 8 two weeks ago one of the items to get the most attention was it’s included unmanaged anti-virus solution.
I was interested in what capabilities it might have and how it would present itself to …

Facebook Timeline: Important Privacy Settings to Adjust Now

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

If you care to keep your past in the past, Facebook’s new version of the profile, called Timeline, makes that a little more difficult.
With Timeline, every status update, wall post and photo ever posted since the day you joined Facebook becomes easily …

27% of tested Google Chrome extensions allow data theft

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

27 of a 100 tested Google Chrome extensions have been found vulnerable to data (passwords, history, etc.) extraction attacks though specially crafted malicious websites or by attackers on public WiFi networks.
A trio of security researchers have manual…

Lost backup tapes affect 4.9 million current, former military

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Backup tapes containing the personal information of nearly five million current and former U.S. soldiers, who received treatment at military clinics and hospitals, has gone missing.
Data on the backup tapes belonged to Tricare, a health benefits provid…

Mac Cloner Psystar Denied Appeal in Court

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has sided with Apple in the company’s bitter lawsuit against Psystar.
Circuit Judge Mary Schroeder ruled yesterday that Psystar’s Mac clones violated copyrights Apple holds, and the ban on sales will be u…

Accelerator shutdown leads to paper being retracted

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Scientific papers get retracted all the time for problems ranging from honest mistakes to outright fraud. The most common reason for discovering a problem is a failure to produce similar data as part of a follow-up experiment. Today’s issue of Science …

Anonymous Releases Theme Song on Youtube and iTunes

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Lyricist Jinn just released the fruit of his collaboration with TeaMp0isoN and Anonymous hacker groups in the form of a song and a video clip called #OpCensorThis.
The 4 minute rap was intensely advertised by TeaMp0isoN who is believed to be behind the…