Security Briefing – June 30th

/me sighs happily. I have a mad crush on Scarlett Johansson.

I’ve always wanted to do that. I’ve accomplished everything I ever wanted in this job. Whatever shall I do next?

Have a great day!

Signed,

The Intern

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And now, the news…

1. Juniper Networks Gags “ATM Jackpot” Researcher – Risky Biz
2. Mitnick site targeted in DNS attack on webhost – The Register
3. Is It Time to Stop Password Masking? – Threat Post
4. New Trojan stealing FTP credentials, attacking FTP websites – Search Security
5. Web Filtering Company Reports Cyber Attack To FBI – Information Week
6. Hackers blamed for wave of fake death tweets – C|NET Of course it’s a hacker, a bored teenager couldn’t possibly guess the security questions, right?
7. Metasploit Framework as a Payload – Room 362
8. Notorious phone phreaker gets 11 years for swatting – The Register
9. Hole in VLC Media Player – Heise
10. ‘Iceman’ pleads guilty in credit card theft case – C|NET

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