Connections Between DroidDreamLight and DroidKungFu We were recently able to analyze the routines of the latest DroidKungFu variant, detected as ANDROIDOS_KUNGFU.CI. While we were monitoring the traffic between ANDROIDOS_KUNGFU.CI and its remote server, we chanced upon a command to delete a certain package. In the command above, the server instructs the malware to delete a [...]
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[WEB SECURITY] What's the best way to maintain password history? Justin Scott: [WEB SECURITY] What's the best way to maintain password history?: <br /> [...] <br /> That sounds like a bug in their implementation. If the user id stays the same then I would expect the password history check to kick in to prevent [...]
DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection coondoggie writes “Researchers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will next week detail a new program it hopes will develop technology to dramatically change computer system security authorization. The program, called Active Authentication, looks to develop technology that goes way beyond today’s use of hard to [...]
New, odd SSH brute force behavior, (Sun, Nov 6th) Over the past 72 hours, I’ve noticed a shift in the types of brute force attacks I’m seeing on my SS …(more)… Digest powered by RSS Digest
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Free service can tell if your email address has been compromised Has your email or username been snatched by hackers and posted to the Internet? You can find the answer to that question at a new online service called Pwnedlist. Security roundup for Nov. 4: virtualization is key to public cloud security; China, Russia accused [...]
UK Council Loses Memory Stick with Details of 18,000 Residents Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council somehow managed to lose a memory stick that contained information on 18,000 of their residents. The stick, which was lost in May, contained details such as names, addresses and payment info but fortunately, no bank account records were present. As it [...]
Secunia jumps on vuln reward bandwagon First, catch your rabbit Secunia has launched yet another vulnerability rewards program, the Secunia Vulnerability Coordination Reward Program, which it says is designed to operate independently of particular software vendors.… Report: Popular CAPTCHAs Easily Defeated Thousands Of WordPress Sites Commandeered By Black Hole Carbonite Privacy Breach Leads To Spam [...]
Microsoft unlikely to patch Duqu kernel bug next week The odds are that Microsoft won’t patch the Windows kernel bug next week that the Duqu remote-access Trojan exploits to plant itself on targeted PCs, a researcher said today Critical Windows zero-day bug exploited by Duqu Trojan used booby-trapped Word file to spread The Duqu malware [...]