Thursday, June 11th, 2009 We have the great pleasure to release today another excellent selection of the best Hacking articles this year. An issue full of new exploitation techniques and ground work on writing attack software.This issue has some evil number.. with a lot of evil content. Phrack proves once more how we can, ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009 Apple has released versions 8.2 of iTunes and 7.6.2 of QuickTime to address a series of vulnerabilities, mostly in QuickTime.The one iTunes vulnerability is a stack overflow in parsing "itms:" URLs which can lead to a DOS or arbitrary code execution. 10 vulnerabilities in QuickTime are all of a type ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Rapidly rising cyber crime and the growing prospect of the Internet being used as a medium for terrorist attacks pose a major challenge for IT security. Cryptography is central to this challenge, since it underpins privacy, confidentiality, and identity, which together provide the fabric for e-commerce and secure communications. Cryptography ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Kernel rootkits are tough enough to detect, but now a researcher has demonstrated an even sneakier method of hacking Linux.The attack attack exploits an oft-forgotten function in Linux versions 2.4 and above in order to quietly insert a rootkit into the operating system kernel as a way to hide malware ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Most web application security experts frown on the practice of passing session or authentication tokens in a URL through the use of URL rewriting. Usually these tokens are passed between the server and the browser through HTTP cookies, but in cases where users configure their browsers to not accept cookies, ...
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