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Adobe PDF flaw 'more serious than first thought'
News Now it has been discovered that miscreants could exploit the problem to access all information on a victim's hard drive, said web security specialists at SPI Dynamics and WhiteHat Security. The security problem exists because the web browser plug... [05 Jan 2007]
Google search apps packing 'phishing flaw'
News Jeremiah Grossman, chief technology officer at WhiteHat Security, which specialises in web application flaws and protection, said: "This particular vulnerability is clever because of the encoding hack. [28 Nov 2006]
Apple online store hacked
News Jason Hart, CEO of security company Whitehat UK, told silicon.com: "The defacer has managed to get administrator access to the web server. Apple's Korean online store has been defaced by a hacker. The attack, carried out by someone working under... [03 May 2006]
WhiteHat UK merges with Cryptocard
News Two-factor authentication company Cryptocard, whose customers include NASA and Google, is merging with managed security services consultancy WhiteHat UK. UK-based WhiteHat will operate a managed service for the two-factor products made by the... [13 Apr 2006]
Can 'scam sweeps' clean up the internet?
News Jason Hart, head of information security at consultancy WhiteHat UK, said: "Are they going to look at all the websites selling certain pharmaceutical goods? But the government's efforts are still inadequate, said WhiteHat UK's Hart, as law... [02 Feb 2006]
Security research ethics under fire
News It's about self-gratification for researchers," said Jason Hart, head of security for Whitehat UK. The legal action currently being brought by French software company Tegam International against Guillaume Tena, who claimed to have found flaws in... [14 Jan 2005]
IM photos compromise networks
News According to security company WhiteHat UK, hackers can use an exploit in JPEGs which enables them to embed malicious code into profile photos on instant messenger. Jason Hart, security director for WhiteHat UK, said: "Potentially, the photos that... [20 Oct 2004]
Hackers learn to attack networks with IM
News Combining the open-source tool nmap - a program that discovers devices on a network - with an IM bot, hackers can infiltrate, steal information and carry out denial-of-service attacks on networks, says the director of security for Whitehat UK... [12 Oct 2004]
Google hacks can mean photocopier attacks
News You don't have to be a genius to do this," said Jason Hart, security director at Whitehat UK. Hackers are using search engines to watch what people photocopy. Using Google hacks - requests typed into the search engine that bring up cached... [27 Sep 2004]
