Security Briefing – February 24th

Hello from sunny Oahu, wish you were here!

Signed,

The Intern

p.s. Slides are now available from presentations given at ShmooCon 2009.

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And now, the news…

1. Hackers Target 0-Day Vulnerability in In Adobe PDF Reader & Acrobat – Darknet
2. The Tigger Trojan: Icky, Sticky Stuff – Security Fix
3. New Conficker Variant – Bruce Schneier
4. La Fonera Lab – Interesting Observations – HiR Information Report
5. Another payment firm breached, details few – Security Focus
6. Top 20 Cybersecurity Defenses Proposed – Information Week Always amuses me when spellcheck points out the C-word as incorrect.
7. Webcast: Modern Social Engineering – A Vital Component of Pen Testing – The Ethical Hacker
8. Don’t put Peter Fleischer on Ice – Emergent Chaos
9. Exiting workers taking confidential data with them – C|NET “…nearly 60 percent admitted to taking confidential company information with them…” 60%?!
10. I get by with a little help from my friends – Andy ITGuy Protect your PIN! Protect your signature! But don’t mind us while we sell the information to all and sundry…

Finally, here’s an attack vector that seems a little odd – SMS:

11. XSS Attack using SMS to Optus/Huawei E960 HSDPA Router – Security Focus

10-4 Good buddy, make a good one!
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