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Comparative analysis of leaked Sony and Gawker passwords
While it's pretty awful that a million Sony users' passwords and 0.25 million Gawker passwords were published online, it has made for an interesting comparative analysis of the weaknesses in password protection, a subject near and dear to many security researchers' hearts. Troy Hunt has published one such analysis, and it's a fascinating [...]
PlayStation Network: hackers claim to have 2.2m credit cards
COINCIDENCE? Come on Guardian. Don't lend credit to Sony's story that "Some credit card information may have possibly kind of been a little bit stolen/borrowed." Hackers in underground online forums are claiming to have access to credit card details stolen from Sony's PlayStation Network in mid-April, though security researchers say it is not [...]
iOS devices secretly log and retain record of every place you go, transfer to your PC and subsequent devices
Security researchers presenting at the Where 2.0 conference have revealed a hidden, secret iOS file that keeps a record of everywhere you've been. The record is synched to your PC and subsequently resynched to your other mobile devices. The file is not transmitted to Apple, but constitutes a substantial privacy breach if your PC or mobile [...]
Evoting security researchers at U Michigan root DC’s voting machines with ease
DC election officials put a test version of their voting system up in a mock primary and invited white hat attacks. U. Michigan broke it completely within 36 hours. DC officials reply, in a nutshell, "Well, that's why we asked people to test it." D.C. voting officials knew there might be openings in the upload procedure, said Paul Stenbjorn, [...]
Botmasters include fake control interface to ensnare security researchers
Security researchers compromised what they believed to be a control server for the Zeus botnet, but after examining it in detail, they concluded that it was a fake, designed to allow botmasters to spy on security researcher tactics and plan countermeasures. What particularly stands out about the EFTPS exploit toolkit is their admin interface. [...]
