Archive for the 'Security' Category

McAfee inadvertently speeds creation of Metaploit IE exploit pack

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Unsanitised blog laid exploit hunt clues
A security researcher has credited McAfee for helping him to develop exploit code that cracks open an unpatched flaw in older versions of Internet Explorer.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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Turkey cuffs 23 ‘militant’ hacker suspects

Friday, March 12th, 2010

PKK s’kiddies
Turkey has arrested 23 hackers suspected of links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and attacks on government websites.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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Koobface gang refresh botnet to beat takedown

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Twitter scourge changes pants
Command and Control servers associated with the infamous Koobface worms have gone through a complete refresh over the last fortnight. Russian net security firm Kaspersky Lab reckons the change up might be aimed at making takedown efforts by cybercrime fighters more difficult.…
What is your recession sales strategy?

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