Archive for March, 2009

26th March Comments

Hackers steer clear of Google Chrome, say too challenging

Posted on March 26th, 2009 at 9:27 am

At the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver BC, hackers were invited to find and exploit holes in modern browsers. A popular target for hackers at this year’s conference was Safari on a Mac — definitely the lowest hanging fruit.
Charlie Miller explains that it’s not whether a product has holes (all of them do), its how [...]

Posted in Security, Software

25th March Comments

Worm targets Linux home routers

Posted on March 25th, 2009 at 6:44 pm

A worm has been used to build a botnet consisting of DSL routers running Linux, which may be still evolving, according to security training organisation the Sans Institute.
After becoming infected, the network of routers was used to launch a denial-of-service attack earlier in March against DroneBL, an organisation that maintains a DNS blacklist. Sans Institute [...]

Posted in Linux, Security

24th March Comments

Pwn2Own 2009: Safari/MacBook falls in seconds

Posted on March 24th, 2009 at 7:24 am

VANCOUVER, BC — Charlie Miller has done it again. For the second consecutive year, the security researcher hacked into a fully patched MacBook computer by exploiting a security vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser.
“It took a couple of seconds. They clicked on the link and I took control of the machine,” Miller said moments [...]

Posted in Security