Social engineering has evidently earned a new level of respect from hacker community: For the first time, this year's Defcon gathering in Las Vegas will feature a contest in which participants will compete to gather nuggets of information from unsuspecting target companies -- over the telephone instead of the Internet.

The internet as we know it is reaching its limits.

The Consumers’ Foundation yesterday said a number of social gaming companies do not provide adequate protection of consumers’ rights, as they have no standard procedures to prevent hackers from illegally accessing players’ accounts.

"Malware embedded into legitimate-looking games designed for Windows Mobile has appeared, automatically dialing up foreign telephone services to rig up hundreds of dollars in illicit charges for users behind their backs," Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.

The Israeli radio reported today that hackers hacked 1000 Israeli websites since the Israeli attack of Freedom Flotilla on last Monday.

Recent reports have detailed Google's actions to phase out the internal use of Microsoft's operating system for security reasons following targeted attacks that the company has experienced. The targeted espionage attacks took place in January of this year and were carried out with the aim of gaining access to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human right activists.

Adobe has announced that an exploitable flaw in Adobe Reader 9.x, Acrobat 9.x, and Flash 9.x and 10.x has been discovered and is being actively exploited. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux versions are all affected. The flaw allows arbitrary code execution by attackers, and hence it is deemed "critical."

Легальный взлом. Можно ли заниматься любимым делом и прокачивать свои навыки в пентесте, не нарушая закон? Где можно проводить инъекции и экспериментировать со сплоитами, не думая о том, включен VPN или нет? Как опробовать полученные знания, пробравшись от бага в скрипте до самого рута в системе? Способ есть!

Стандартный веб-интерфейс Twitter имеет определенные недостатки. Поэтому широкое распространение получили веб-клиенты и настольные приложения, делающие твиттинг по-настоящему приятным занятием.

Cyber attacks, pandemics and electromagnetic disturbances are the three top "high impact" risks to the U.S. and Canadian power-generation grids, according to a report from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC).

A shipment of Samsung’s Wave smartphones has apparently shipped with malware stored on the handset’s microSD card.

Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas.

World Cup fever is almost upon us and, with England's World Cup squad due to be announced today, it looks like hackers and criminal gangs will be generating large volumes of infected and other malicious email with a football theme.

Adobe's Photoshop Creative Suite 4 image-editing software has critical vulnerabilities that could let hackers take control of Macs with the suite installed. Graham Cluley, a security researcher, said the security risk lies in infected ASL, ABR, and GRD files that can cause you to surrender control of your Mac to a remote hacker.

At the upcoming The Next HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference organized bi-yearly by 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, the RFID badges distributed to attendees will be fully hackable, complete with open API. In a HOPE press release and video, commentary is made on how data passively collected through RFID badges can be used to explore a number of interesting questions regarding group and individual behavior; by encouraging attendees a way to access, manipulate, and interact with that data, they expect to see new ideas emerge about the capabilities and potential misuses of RFID-based technologies.

A hacking tool advertised as being capable of enabling users to hack Windows Live accounts and grab Windows Live Messenger passwords is actually used by attackers to spread their malicious code. According to BitDefencer, HackMSN.exe will not only not permit users to recover Windows Live passwords, but will instead infect them will malware, namely the Backdoor.Bifrose.AADY.

A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says.

Mac security firm Intego has issued a warning about a Mac twist on a two-year-old Windows spyware app that sends a variety of potentially sensitive information to external servers. Dubbed "OSX/OpinionSpy," the spyware is installed along with a number of widely available third-party Mac OS X screensaver modules, as well as with at least one shareware tool to strip audio tracks from Flash videos.

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Этот видеоурок интересен хотя бы тем, что дает основное представление о способах антиотладки, основанных на применении механизма обработки исключений. Автор наглядно демонстрирует два эффективных способа противодействия отладчикам уровня приложения: один из методов - установка собственного обработчика исключений с последующей генерацией ошибочной ситуации - действует практически на все отладчики третьего кольца, вызывая переполнение стека

Самая большая проблема современного офисного работника в том, что он практически не способен фокусироваться на длительное время на своих задачах — постоянные нотификации почты, мессенджеров, оповещений социальных сайтов и т.д.

Oil giant BP suffered further embarrassment on Thursday after its official Twitter account was hacked.

As per the security firm, search engine results infested with links to bogus antivirus software have been a continuous problem for Internet users.

Technology firms should be wary of outsourcing manufacturing overseas en masse, says the author of an annual IT industry report.

Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's senior director of Internet Explorer, is remarkably chirpy for a man whose product's market share has plunged from 90% to roughly 60%, but it seems things are not all bad. "The future for IE is as bright as it's been any time over the past five years," he says. "IE8 is the fastest-growing browser in history: it's the number one browser on Windows, and the number one across all OSs

The CEO of a company accused of making more than $100 million selling harmful "scareware" antivirus products was already a fugitive from U.S. authorities, following his arrest in 2008 on criminal counterfeiting charges.

"Забавно получается", — говорит Билл Гейтс, расслабляясь в своём офисном кресле. "В молодости я не был знаком с пожилыми людьми. Когда мы делали эту микропроцессорную революцию, среди нас не было ни одного пожилого человека

Довольно часто SQL-инъекцию можно обнаружить по сообщению об ошибке, выдаваемой базой данных, и не всегда использование уязвимости в подобных случаях возможно с применением классической техники эксплуатации (union). До некоторого времени в таких случаях приходилось пользоваться унылыми и медленными способами посимвольного перебора

A subtle defacement of the website of electronics manufacturer Foxconn has drawn further attention to an alarming spate of worker suicides at a plant in southern China.

Phishing attacks rose last month after a period of decline, logging a three per cent increase to more than 18,000, with UK users on the receiving end of almost half of the scams, according to the latest Online Fraud Report from RSA Security.

When you’re reading up on Wi-Fi security, you’ll find many different interpretations and opinions. One might say disabling SSID broadcasting will hide your network, while others might say it just draws hackers into an easy job. Some might think WPA encryption is cracked, while others say it’s secure. Here we look at each myth and tell you whether it's verified--or busted.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) warned Australian IT security professionals at last week's AusCERT 2010 conference to do penetration testing on their telephone systems or risk having their PABX hacked.

Remember that little company that needed Microsoft's financial help just to keep going in 1997? Well, today that company - Apple - just surpassed Microsoft in terms of market value.

More than half (54 percent) of IT managers believe employees should be banned from watching the World Cup using their PC at work, says Blue Coat Systems.

Mark Gasson, a senior research fellow working at the University of Reading’s ‘infected’ himself with a computer virus by implanting an RFID chip into his hand.

Cisco Systems has warned of serious vulnerabilities in a device that connects a building's ventilation, lighting, security, and energy supply systems so they can be controlled by IT workers remotely.

Очень интересный материал появился на Forbes о том, как распознать ложь в деловом общении. Бывший специальный агент ФБР и вытор книги "Громче слов" Джо Наварро рассказывает как распознать лжеца. всего есть три стадии общения, когда вы можете это сделать: когда он впервые слышит ваш голос, когда подстраивается под него и когда отвечает.

Что произошло с утопической мечтой о мире, в котором "позабыты хлопоты, остановлен бег, вкалывают роботы, счастлив человек"? Просто она возникла раньше, чем могла быть воплощена в жизнь… но сегодня все изменилось! Мы расскажем о настоящем и будущем робототехники, об искусственном интеллекте, а также об эре, в которой роботы будут воевать на наших войнах, лечить наши болезни, отнимать наши рабочие места и уводить наших девушек

After more than two years, Apple's Safari browser for Macs remains vulnerable to attacks that allow websites to litter a user's hard drive with thousands of malicious files.

Some of the IT industry's biggest names are lending their support to Random Hacks of Kindness, a weekend of hard coding at which volunteer engineers seek to solve real world problems.