Yes! Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone 4S, iPad 2… UNTETHERED #tlv $AAPL
Yes! Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone 4S, iPad 2... UNTETHERED#tlv $AAPLYes! Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone 4S, iPad 2... UNTETHEREDGood news, everyone! Now you can jailbreak your iPhone 4S or iPad 2, with...
View ArticleSANS Germany 2012
So a little birdie told me that the fine folks over at SANS are arranging a conference in Germany this year. Unfortunately I can’t get the time off to attend, but I managed to wrangle a discount code...
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You just know that this is where all the cool kids are getting their news now.Get Early Access to WaviiWavii creates auto-magical news feeds for any topic!
View ArticleGoogle Releases Chrome 16.0.912.77
US-Cert has just distributed a notification about the release of Chrome 16.0.912.77 for Linux, Mac, Windows, and Chrome Frame to address multiple vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities may allow an...
View ArticleSupreme Court rules unanimously that GPS tracking of suspects requires a warrant
The U.S. Supreme Court published a decision yesterday in United States v Jones, in which it held unanimously (although with three separate opinions using different reasoning to reach the same...
View ArticleVMware Cloud Prediction Talk
Chris Colotti and Massimo Re Ferre’ are hosting a #cloudtalk next week on cloud predictions for 2012. Please join to help flood them with questions about compliance and security: In a recent Fortune...
View ArticleDreamHost, FTC, Zone-H And More Defacements
Over the last few days we have seen a wild ride with respects to sites being compromised. We have seen Core Security compromised…or not. Alleged Core response: “There is nothing of importance posted...
View ArticleWhy the NYPD hates bicyclists
There is ample evidence that the NYPD harshly and regularly discriminates against bicyclists. In a city that would benefit immensely from alternative transportation one might conclude that the police...
View ArticlePrivacy, Labelling and Legislation
The proposed new European Data Protection Directive will be announced tomorrow. Apart from the leaked draft document, there has been plenty of comment (e.g. here, here and here), Viviane Reding,...
View ArticleTricky Twitter DM hack seeks your credentials, malware infection, and more
When a direct message pops up on Twitter stating that other people are saying bad things about you, please think twice before clicking on any links in that message. Why? Because the links are likely to...
View ArticleFinal days to vote- SBN Blog & Podcast Awards
It’s Tuesday, January 24th, which means there are just 4 days left to vote for your top blogs and podcasts finalists for the Security Bloggers Network Awards, to be presented at RSA Conference USA...
View Article10 ways to sell your CEO on cloud computing…. And lose face
I'm taking a detour from the typical security specific tone of my blog to do something a little special today. This post is a collaborative post on Cloud Computing with my colleague Christian...
View ArticleCVE-2011-3923: Apache Struts2
o0o security research has posted a review of the SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory on Apache Struts2 along with a remote code execution exploit. The problem, in brief, is that Struts2...
View ArticleNew Variant of Zeus Malware Titled “GameOver” Sent via Phishing Scam
The FBI has issued a warning about the latest identify theft/bank swindling malware, called “Gameover”. The “Gameover” scam is initiated through a phishing scheme that sends fictitious e-mails to a...
View ArticleNow you can be forced to decrypt your hard drive?
Awhile back we noted a case where Ramona Fricosu, a woman accused of involvement in a mortgage scam, was asked, following a law enforcement raid in which her laptop was seized, to decrypt data on the...
View ArticleTWSL2012-002: Multiple Vulnerabilities in WordPress
Trustwave SpiderLabs has published a new advisory today for multiple vulnerabilities discovered in the WordPress 'setup-config.php' page. These include PHP code execution/persistent cross site...
View ArticleNIST SP800-144: Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing
NIST has released as final their special publication 800-144 (SP800-144). Perhaps the single biggest takeaway from the guide is that risk management has not changed fundamentally from non-cloud...
View ArticleWindows Crash, Ukraine Edition
via BoingBoing’s eponymous Cory Doctorow, comes this image of another electronic billboard advertising device crash, as usual, running Microsoft Corporation’s (NasdaqGS: MSFT) Windows operating...
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