Hacker Halted 2010

Google plugs 'high risk' Chrome security holes

1
vote

Google has shipped a new version of its Chrome browser to fix three high-risk security holes that expose web surfers to malicious hacker attacks.  read more »

Microsoft: No plans to pay for security vulnerabilities

14
vote

A Microsoft security official dismissed any suggestion that the company would start buying rights to security flaws, arguing that its current system of crediting hackers in security bulletins is working very well.  read more »

Microsoft: No plans to pay for security vulnerabilities

14
vote

A Microsoft security official dismissed any suggestion that the company would start buying rights to security flaws, arguing that its current system of crediting hackers in security bulletins is working very well.  read more »

Malware Watch: Malicious Amazon themed emails in the wild

13
vote

A currently spamvertised malware campaign is brand-jacking Amazon.com, in an attempt to trick end users into visiting a client-side exploits serving URL.  read more »

Hi! I'm a security researcher, and here's your invoice

17
vote

Michal Zalewski: Security researchers don’t have to give any information away for free; but if you need to resort to arm-twisting tactics to sell a service, you have some serious soul searching to do.  read more »

The Pirate Bay hacked through multiple SQL injections

38
vote

By using multiple SQL injections, Argentinian group of security researchers managed to obtain access to the Pirate Bay’s administration panel, leading to the exposure of sensitive data belonging to the 4+ million users of the tracker.  read more »

The Pirate Bay hacked through multiple SQL injections

31
vote

By using multiple SQL injections, Argentinian group of security researchers managed to obtain access to the Pirate Bay’s administration panel, leading to the exposure of sensitive data belonging to the 4+ million users of the tracker.  read more »

Adobe plugs security holes in PDF Reader, Acrobat

44
vote

Adobe today shipped a critical Reader/Acrobat patch to cover a total of 17 documented vulnerabilities that expose Windows, Mac and UNIX users to malicious hacker attacks.  read more »

Adobe plugs security holes in PDF Reader, Acrobat

45
vote

Adobe today shipped a critical Reader/Acrobat patch to cover a total of 17 documented vulnerabilities that expose Windows, Mac and UNIX users to malicious hacker attacks.  read more »

Adobe plugs security holes in PDF Reader, Acrobat

46
vote

Adobe today shipped a critical Reader/Acrobat patch to cover a total of 17 documented vulnerabilities that expose Windows, Mac and UNIX users to malicious hacker attacks.  read more »

Adobe plugs security holes in PDF Reader, Acrobat

54
vote

Adobe today shipped a critical Reader/Acrobat patch to cover a total of 17 documented vulnerabilities that expose Windows, Mac and UNIX users to malicious hacker attacks.  read more »

Adobe plugs security holes in PDF Reader, Acrobat

149
vote

Adobe today shipped a critical Reader/Acrobat patch to cover a total of 17 documented vulnerabilities that expose Windows, Mac and UNIX users to malicious hacker attacks.  read more »

Defenders of the faith (Tavis acted responsibly)

59
vote

Lurene Grenier: Tavis Ormandy has protected high-value targets by refusing to allow Microsoft an unreasonable timeline for patching.  read more »

Defenders of the faith (Tavis acted responsibly)

147
vote

Lurene Grenier: Tavis Ormandy has protected high-value targets by refusing to allow Microsoft an unreasonable timeline for patching.  read more »

Defenders of the faith (Tavis acted responsibly)

59
vote

Lurene Grenier: Tavis Ormandy has protected high-value targets by refusing to allow Microsoft an unreasonable timeline for patching.  read more »

From prediction to prophecy: The 2010 threat landscape

86
vote

In January 2010, Fortinet issued a report outlining our predictions for The Top 10 Security Trends for 2010. Now that weâre midway through the year, Iâve decided to look back at those prognostications and compare and contrast them with what we have been seeing today.  read more »

spiderpig — a pdf javascript fuzzer

103
vote

Adobe and others uses javascript in pdfs to enhance standard workflow for example connecting to database
,spell checking,printing n viewing etc..when we open pdf in reader,it executes this javascript code(ya we all know that).
so goal of spiderpig is to find bugs in pdf reader’s javascript engine.  read more »

From prediction to prophecy: The 2010 threat landscape

90
vote

In January 2010, Fortinet issued a report outlining our predictions for The Top 10 Security Trends for 2010. Now that weâre midway through the year, Iâve decided to look back at those prognostications and compare and contrast them with what we have been seeing today.  read more »

Malware Watch: Skype exploit, Skype-themed malicious spam campaigns detected

98
vote

Researchers from M86 Security Labs are reporting on a currently active malware campaign, using for the first time a working exploit targeting the (fixed) EasyBits Extras Manager Unspecified Vulnerability, reported in October, 2009.  read more »

Syndicate content