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Flaw auction site highlights disclosure issues
WabiSabiLabi gets mixed reviews, but security pros agree that interesting times are ahead. 2007-07-13 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11474 Fast flux foils bot-net takedown Malicious coders are increasingly playing a shell game, using a technology known as "fast flux" to make locating key servers more difficult. 2007-07-09 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11473 Lawmakers worry over gov't network breaches Hearings on the Hill reveal a significant number of security breaches at the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, State and Energy. 2007-06-27 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11472 Amero case spawns effort to educate Following a judge's ruling to throw out a verdict based on faulty digital forensics, a group of security professionals, legal experts and educators look to the future. 2007-06-19 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11471 Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security A working group of security researchers, digital-rights activists and government prosecutors discuss whether bug hunters can find vulnerabilities in Web sites without violating laws. 2007-06-15 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11470 Judge nixes teacher's conviction on porn pop-ups A Connecticut judge grants a new trial for substitute teacher Julie Amero, saying that forensics information discovered after her conviction has direct bearing on her case. 2007-06-06 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11469 Zero-day sales not "fair" -- to researchers A security analyst tries his hand at selling two vulnerabilities and finds that economics and time are against him. 2007-06-01 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11468 Insecure plug-ins pose danger to Firefox users A security researcher warns that an insecure update mechanism for some of the open-source browser's third-party add-ons could allow an attacker the ability to install malicious code. 2007-05-30 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11467 Peer-to-peer networks co-opted for DOS attacks Attackers compromise the hub servers of the DC++ peer-to-peer network, turning hundreds of thousands of clients into hard-to-stop distributed denial-of-service attacks. 2007-05-28 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11466 "Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown A Congressional committee calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant. 2007-05-18 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11465 |
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