Ben Jackson and Paul Vet know where you live. Or rather, if you geotag your tweets and photos as carelessly as the average microblogger, they know where you sleep, work, and potentially engage in far more private activities.
Both Jackson and Vet separately presented research at the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in New York [...]
Looking deeper within malware yields fingerprints of the hackers who write the code, and that could result in signatures that have a longer lifetime than current intrusion-detection schemes, Black Hat 2010 attendees will be told next week.
Analysis of the binaries of malware executables also reveals characteristics about the intent of the attack code that could [...]
New Zealand IPv6 specialist Dean Pemberton warns that a transitional protocol to IPv6 may have underlying security risks.
Teredo is one of several tunnelling protocols that carry IPv6 traffic encapsulated in IPv4 packets to ensure transmission over an IPv4 network. Teredo, moreover, is designed to ensure that the packets also cleanly cross network address translation (NAT) [...]
Unrevoked has been a popular smartphone rooting tool among HTC manufactured Android 2.1 devices. The team of hackers have now introduced a very simple One-Click solution to root your new HTC Droid Incredible Android handset. Of course, technically the whole procedure is more than one step. But this is definitely a lot simple than many [...]
User comments on news sites, while vital to interactive storytelling in the digital age, often read like scribblings on a bathroom stall: anonymous, offensive and full of hate.
"I hate what you people, and by that I mean the blacks, are doing to this city," wrote one Buffalo News reader last month in response to a [...]
Intel has added a second six-core desktop chip to its roster of high-end processors used to crunch through the most demanding games and multimedia applications.
The Core i7-970, announced Sunday, is priced at $885 and follows the six-core i7 980X ($999) released earlier this year. Like the 980X, it has 12MB of L3 cache memory and [...]
On July 16, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at an iPhone press conference and told those in attendance that as hard as they might try to only blame Apple for the iPhone 4â??s problems, they need to take a long, hard look at the rest of the industry and realize that Apple isnâ??t [...]
Windows 7 is superior to Appleâ??s Mac OS X, the open source Linux and to all operating systems on the market, noted Kevin Turner, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer during the companyâ??s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2010. Undoubtedly, Windows 7 has seen unprecedented success in terms of adoption and customer satisfaction. To this day, almost nine [...]
The digital certificate that belonging to Realtek Semiconductor that was used to sign a pair of drivers fro the new Stuxnet rootkit has been revoked by VeriSign. The certificate was revoked Friday, several days after news broke about the existence of the new malware and the troubling existence of the signed drivers.
Stuxnet’s infection method takes [...]
Appleâ??s iPhone woes seem to be never ending, with users now complaining about failures downloading and installing the operating system update that was released to remedy reception perception issues.
Apple last week released iOS 4.0.1 to address the signal strength display on the iPhone, but some users have reported running into problems updating their handsets, with [...]
The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show.
Unregistered users of thetimes.co.uk are now "bounced" to a Times+ membership page where they have to register if they want to view Times content. Data from the web metrics company Experian Hitwise [...]
This is not going to be the story of an ordinary Internet fraud. Trust me on this.
Laura is a 27-year-old former beauty queen with a lot of friends and hundreds of acquaintances. You can tell that by the fact that the contact lists on her Yahoo! and Gmail accounts go on for pages and include [...]
Hackers have built a computer virus that attacks Siemens AG’s widely used industrial control systems, creating malicious software that analysts said can be used for espionage and sabotage.
The German company said the malware is a Trojan worm dubbed Stuxnet that spreads via infected USB thumb drives, exploiting a yet-to-be-patched vulnerability in Microsoft Corp’s Windows operating [...]
A single critical vulnerability in the Windows version of iTunes 9.2 is fixed in the just-released version 9.2.1.
The vulnerability, reported to Apple by Clint Ruoho of Laconic Security, is listed as affecting only Windows versions, but the new version 9.2.1 is available for both Windows and Mac.
The problem is a buffer overflow in the handling [...]
The greatest frontier for application modernization, SOA, cloud, and virtualization is the enormous collection of legacy systems which run the US federal government. However, some of these efforts may run up more costs than they save. In a new post, IDCâ??s Thom Rubel looked at some recent efforts to re-evaluate or put the brakes on [...]
Police handcuffs can’t restrain them. High security locks can’t keep them out. Very little can thwart the lock picking and safe cracking skills of an elite group of Dutch hackers known as Toool.
But far from being some shadowy criminal fraternity, The Open Organisation of Lock pickers (Toool) is nothing more sinister than a sports club [...]
BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion has debuted a new security tool, BlackBerry Protect, to provide remote device backup, wipe and lock functions.
BlackBerry Protect also allows users to identify a handsetâ??s whereabouts on a map using GPS and to leave contact details on the screen in the event it is found.
It allows remote activation of a [...]
As an IT pro, you could get in legal trouble without even realizing it. You may be liable for civil damages, criminal fines, and/or jail time if, while doing your job, you intentionally or accidentally breach contracts or violate laws. It doesn’t have to be criminal behavior; there are lots of noncriminal actions, called torts, [...]
Although a newly discovered worm could allow criminals to break into Siemens’ industrial automation systems using a default password, Siemens is telling customers to leave their passwords alone.
That’s because changing the password could disrupt the Siemens system, potentially throwing large-scale industrial systems that it manages into disarray. "We will be publishing customer guidance shortly, [...]