Security Briefing: January 9th

Morning folks. Today I noticed that Portswigger had posted his response to the proposed UK law to ban “hacker tools“. Unsurprisingly, he came out swinging. I can’t blame him one bit.

And now, the news…

1. Business as usual
2. Relay attacks on card payment: vulnerabilities and defences
3. New rootkit hides in hard drive’s boot record
4. Privacy Concerns Over ‘Leaky’ U.S. Passport Card
5. Critical TCP/IP Worm Hole Dings Windows Vista
6. Illegal immigrants turn to identity theft
7. IEEE Threat Modelling
8. Quickpost: Windows Server 2008 UserAssist Keys
9. DOE IG reviews security at Oak Ridge

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