Tomorrow at 12pm EST Joanna Rutkowska and Loic Duflot are publishing a paper and actual exploit code that works against Intel cache mechanisms.  These attacks will allow privileged escalation [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: AMD, Black Hat, Exploit, hack, Hardware, Intel, Rootkit, SMM, Virtualization

Author: Christopher

Another serious vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat is making its way around the Internet.  So far testing has confirmed  the vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, and 9.0.0.  [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: 0-day, 0day, acrobat, Adobe, javascript, Vulnerability, zero day, zeroday

Author: Christopher

Federal Adviation Administrion (FAA) recently fell victim to another malicious hacker attack.  This time two servers were compromised resulting in the exposure of personal data for 45,0000 employees and [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: Data Loss, FAA, hacker

Author: Christopher

Gift card scams have been around for a while in various incarnations. Sometimes crooks use stolen credit cards to buy the gift cards, then turn around and sell [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: gift cards, id theft, scammers

Author: Christopher

CAPTCHA – that annoying security measure that many online service providers use to make sure you are a human and not some spam-bot, has spawned an entire IT sub-industry [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: captcha

Author: Christopher

Businesses Must Develop Security Plan
Effective January 1st of 2009, new laws went into effect in Massachusetts governing the safe handling of private data by “all persons that own, license, [...] Continue Reading…

Tags: 93H, massachusetts, security plan

Author: Christopher