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ldd arbitrary code execution - good coders code, great reuseNothing delights me more than great books. If you like my blog, I'd be thankful for a gift from my Amazon book wishlist . :) 26 Oct 2009 07:15 am ldd arbitrary code execution The `ldd` utility is more vulnerable than you think. It’s frequently used by programmers and system ...
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Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable Embedded DevicesResearchers scanning the internet for vulnerable embedded devices have found nearly 21,000 routers, webcams and VoIP products open to remote attack, due to the fact that their administrative interfaces are publicly viewable from anywhere on the internet and their owners have failed to change ...
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Cyberwar - Defying Experts, Rogue Computer Code Still Lurks - Series - NYTimes.com | #Security, #BotnetsLike a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program and trace its origins and purpose, exposing serious weaknesses in the world’s digital infrastructure. Cyberwar - Defying Experts, ...
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Hackers Break Into Police Computer | Australian Federal Police | #CybersecurityAn Australian Federal Police boast, on the ABC's Four Corners program, about officers breaking up an underground hacker forum, has backfired after hackers broke into a federal police computer system. Hackers Break Into Police Computer | Australian Federal Police
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Scientists Learn To Fabricate DNA EvidenceHugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that it is possible to fabricate blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor, and even to construct a sample of DNA to match someone's profile without obtaining any tissue from that person — if you have access to their ...
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Who checking your telephone/email records?According to an article published in the Telegraph, councils, police and other public bodies are seeking access to people’s private telephone and email records almost 1,400 times a day in the UK. The authorities made more than 500,000 requests for confidential communications data last year, ...
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Slashdot | Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned | #RFID, #DefCon, #[Information Security]FourthAge writes "Federal agents at the Defcon 17 conference were shocked to discover that they had been caught in the sights of an RFID reader connected to a web camera. The reader sniffed data from RFID-enabled ID cards and other documents carried by attendees in pockets and backpacks. The ...
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SemiAccurate :: News for the Everygeek | #Apple, #SecurityAPPLE KEYBOARDS ARE vulnerable to a hack that puts keyloggers and malware directly into the keyboard. This could be a serious problem, and now that the presentation and code is out there, the bad guys will surely be exploiting it. SemiAccurate :: News for the Everygeek
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Slashdot | Generating Fast MD5 Collisions With ATI Video Cards | #ATI, #MD5An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday at Black Hat USA 2009, a talk entitled MD5 Chosen-Prefix Collisions on GPUs ( whitepaper) (Both PDFs) presented an implementation written in assembly language for ATI video cards that achieves 1.6 billion MD5 hash/sec, or 2.2 billion MD5 hash/sec with ...
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Five technologies Iran is using to censor the Web | #Security, #Privacy, #IranOne month after a disputed presidential election sparked widespread unrest in Iran, the country's government has initiated a cyber-crackdown that is challenging hackers across the globe to find new ways to help keep Iranian dissidents connected to the Web. While the government's initial ...
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