Thursday, August 7th, 2008
This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees.Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. have discovered a technique that can be used to bypass all memory protection ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A recently found flaw in the internet's addressing system is worse than first feared, so Dan Kaminsky said when speaking publicly about his discovery at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.He said fixes for the flaw in the net's Domain Name System (DNS) had focused on web browsers but ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.Considering the silent nature of the attack and the sensitive nature ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Perhaps more than any other flaw in the last several years, the DNS protocol vulnerability discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky has shown that the circle of trust on the Internet can be broken more easily than we feared.After listening to Kaminsky’s talk Aug. 6 at the Black Hat conference ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
At the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas next week, researchers will demonstrate software they've developed that could steal online credentials from users of popular Web sites such as Facebook, eBay, and Google.The attack relies on a new type of hybrid file that looks like different things to ...
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