Буквально за несколько дней перед сдачей номера в печать Metasploit обзавелся свеженьким модулем, про который мы просто не могли не рассказать. Благодаря новой команде getsystem, на скомпрометированной системе стало возможно перейти из User Level в ring0, получив права NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM! И это - в любых версиях винды.

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More than 100,000 webpages, some belonging to newspapers, police departments, and other large organizations, have been hit by an attack over the past few days that redirected visitors to a website that attempted to install malware on their machines.

Trendnet has beaten off stiff competition to be first to market with a 450Mbps 802.11n router.

Olympus has confirmed that nearly 2,000 of its Stylus Tough 6010 digital cameras have shipped with a worm installed on the included microSD card.

An employee in one of Bank of America's customer call centers has admitted he stole sensitive account information and tried to sell it for cash.

AT&T has confirmed an iPad security breach which computer experts say has exposed over 100,000 early iPad adopters to potential malicious hacking and spam, with those vulnerable including dozens of CEOs, military officials, top politicians and media personalities.

Twitter is to introduce a new feature designed to wrap and shorten all links posted by users, in an effort to improve security and gain more information on links being shared.

Quantum links are said to be unhackable because the "key" used to establish a secure channel is encoded into the spin of a photon. If the photon is intercepted, it becomes altered in a detectable way. However, hackers have discovered loopholes that allow them to escape detection, for instance, by intercepting the photons and replacing them with copies.

A security researcher has warned of a vulnerability in older versions of the Windows operating system that allows attackers to take full control of a PC by luring its user to a booby-trapped website.

The local ISP industry is expected to take up the Australian Internet Industry's (AII) new voluntary code of practice on cyber security, but some doubts over the plan have been expressed.

Two security researchers have claimed there is a major security flaw in the way Windows 7 interacts with the hardware of its host machine. They argue it could be extremely difficult to fix the issue.