A computer security researcher has released a plugin for Firefox that provides a wealth of data on Web sites that may have been compromised with malicious code. The plugin, called Fireshark, was released on Wednesday at the Black Hat conference. The open-source free tool is designed to address the shortcomings in other programs used to [...]
Archive for April, 2010
In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits
The door of a dry-cleaner-size storefront in an industrial park in Wareham, Massachusetts, an hour south of Boston, might not look like a portal to the future of American manufacturing, but it is. This is the headquarters of Local Motors, the first open source car company to reach production. Step inside and the office reveals [...]
Researchers to Demonstrate Database Man-in-the-Middle Attacks at Black Hat
Two researchers from Trustwave will demonstrate how to use man-in-the-middle attacks against Oracle databases to steal user credentials and take over sessions at Black Hat Europe next week. Two researchers from Trustwave will demonstrate how a man-in-the-middle attack on Oracle databases can be leveraged to swipe user credentials and hijack sessions at the upcoming Black [...]
Avatars rising in the enterprise
Avatars aren’t just for the movies or for techies with time on their hands. Organizations are using virtual worlds for training, simulation and prototyping, among other things. The U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is making the most of what officials call “immersive learning” in secure, virtual work environments replete with avatars, to augment existing [...]
A Chinese ISP momentarily hijacks the Internet
For the second time in two weeks, bad networking information spreading from China has disrupted the Internet. On Thursday morning, bad routing data from a small Chinese ISP called IDC China Telecommunication was re-transmitted by China’s state-owned China Telecommunications, and then spread around the Internet, affecting Internet service providers such as AT&T, Level3, Deutsche Telekom, [...]
HP chip discovery could be a tech ‘game changer’
Hewlett-Packard is taking the wraps off a new technology that analysts say could be “a major game changer” for computers and personal devices. HP Labs released information today on a research project dubbed the “memristor,” which is a resistor with memory. A resistor constricts current flow inside a circuit and is a key part of [...]
Study calls for more C-level involvement in cybersecurity
Organizations with top executives who aren’t involved in cybersecurity decisions face a serious problem — a major hit to their bottom lines, according to a report released Wednesday. “Many organizations see cybersecurity as solely an IT problem,” said Karen Hughes, director of homeland security standards programs at the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), one of [...]
Next Generation Battery is Here
This blog site was created to bring an awareness of the latest in new green battery technology and the opportunity for investment in this new product. Carbon Nano Tube (CNT) are tiny tubular structures composed of a single layer of carbon atoms. MBTI has developed a propriety method of coating the anode, cathodes and modifying [...]
Free app makes paid web scanners dead in the water
Google’s upgraded version of its automated Web application scanner, SkipFish, has received glowing reviews from local security experts. The free tool designed by Google software engineer Michal Zalewski, and launched late last week, scans for web application vulnerabilities. Penetration testing firm HackLabs director Chris Gatford said the tool is “blazingly fast” and accurate. The revamped [...]
Apple delivers record monster security update
Apple today patched 92 vulnerabilities, a third of them critical, in a record update to its Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems. Security Update 2010-002 plugged 92 holes in the client and server editions of Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6, breaking a record that has stood since March 2008 . The [...]