hacking flaw
RSS hacking flawQuickTime flaw could fuel Second Life stealing
News Researchers have shown how exploiting a flaw within QuickTime could allow an attacker could steal from other users in Second Life. In this case, researchers exploited a recent flaw within RTSP tunnelling. [18 Feb 2008]
Gmail cookie flaw 'puts email at risk'
News Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming emails from Google Gmail users. Pure Hacking security researcher Chris Gatford... [27 Sep 2007]
Escape the data management minefield
Comment And this flaw wasn't caused by an errant employee with a grudge or a hacker on a mission. Paul Bentham explains how this is not just about malicious hacking and has more to do with systems design and... [13 Sep 2007]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News A flaw in any one of these could be easily exploited over the web. Miller said his formula for finding a zero-day flaw on a Mac is this: "Find an open source package that they use that's out of date -... [14 Aug 2007]
Windows at risk from fancy cursors
News The exposure to attacks that exploit the flaw is mitigated on Vista machines with Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft noted. Spyware and remote control tools that turn PCs into drones for the attacker are silently loaded onto... [30 Mar 2007]
How serious is HSBC's online banking flaw?
News Security professionals have questioned reports of a 'serious flaw' in HSBC's online banking system. Researchers at Cardiff University claim to have discovered the flaw which, according to The Guardian,... [10 Aug 2006]
IT pros criminalised by CMA update?
News Hutty said: "You could reveal details of a security flaw, and someone could hear that and decide that not everyone would be patched yet," adding that this could even include media outlets which reported on security flaws. [22 May 2006]
Second hack-my-Mac compo goes ballistic
News A privilege escalation flaw could let a malicious user with such access gain full control over a system, he said. A senior systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin on Monday launched a Mac hacking... [08 Mar 2006]
Windows worm holes plugged
News One such flaw, described in Microsoft's MS05-051 security bulletin, lies in a Windows component for transaction processing called the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, or MSDTC. The MSDTC buffer overflow... [12 Oct 2005]
VoIP: Don't forget about security
Comment That may be true but the company did patch a major security flaw in the product in July, which could make customers nervous. Voice over IP (VoIP) calls offer the twin benefits of cost and convenience but there are... [09 Aug 2005]
Windows 2000 open to attack
News A serious flaw has been discovered in a core component of Windows 2000, with no possible workaround until it gets fixed, a security company said. As no action on the part of the computer user is required, the... [04 Aug 2005]
Hackers spread Microsoft attack flaw exploit
News The risk of an attack related to a flaw in Microsoft Outlook Express climbed this week, after underground hacking sites began circulating sample code for exploiting it. Nonetheless, iDefense urges people... [27 Jun 2005]
Paris Hilton hacked thanks to old school scamming
News According to an interview with the unnamed teenager by the Washington Post, the gang found a security flaw in T-Mobile's password reset mechanism which allowed them to shut out Sidekick users from their own accounts. [20 May 2005]
Mozilla flaws reveal personal web data
News According to the French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT), attackers can potentially run malicious code on a users' system because of a flaw in the Mozilla browser's pop-up blocker. Ian Latter, senior security... [18 Apr 2005]
Dodgy characters create phishing flaw in browsers
News Details of the flaw were shown at ShmooCon, a hacking and computer security convention, in Washington D.C.last weekend. Microsoft has not implemented support for IDN yet, so its IE browser is not... [08 Feb 2005]
