US bank loses details of 4.5 million customers

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation has admitted to misplacing the details of 4.5 million customers, following the loss of a data tape earlier this year. The backup tape went missing on 27 February while being transported to an off-site archive by a third-party vendor. The lost data includes the ...

Bogus Microsoft Update Delivers Nasty File Infector

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Even though Patch Tuesday is still two weeks from now, crimeware authors are already sending out fake Microsoft “critical updates.” The TrendLabs Content Security Team recently found a hoax purporting to be from Microsoft that urges users to update their computers due to a “critical security issue”. The email, which has ...

Shmoocon 2008 videos are now online

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

The videos from ShmooCon 2008 have hit the shelves. Go download them at: http://www.shmoocon.org/2008/videos/ EDIT: As of the time of this post, some of the videos are incorrectly named. Here is the 1-> 1: Correctly Named: 21st Century Shellcode for Solaris Advanced Protocol Fuzzing - What We Learned when Bringing Layer2 Logic to SPIKE land Backtrack ...

PstPassword Recovers Lost Outlook Passwords

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Windows only: When you dig up that old Outlook PST (Personal Folders) file from years ago you cleverly secured with a hard-to-guess password—and now you can't guess it—you want PstPassword. Turns out that Outlook passwords aren't that difficult to figure out, because this handy utility detects the PST's on your ...

Free Sysinternals Windows utilities now available online, 24/7

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

If you troubleshoot Windows PCs for fun or profit, then chances are you’ve used one or more tools from Sysinternals. Microsoft bought the company and its amazing library of diagnostic, troubleshooting, and management utilities in 2006, and the collection has been continually updated ever since. It’s also still completely free. A few weeks ...