School Spy Program Used on Students Contains Hacker-Friendly Security Hole |
- School Spy Program Used on Students Contains Hacker-Friendly Security Hole
- Call for strategy to fight cyber threats
- Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-20
- Floyd Landis takes aim after drugs admission
| School Spy Program Used on Students Contains Hacker-Friendly Security Hole Posted: InfoSec News: School Spy Program Used on Students Contains Hacker-Friendly Security Hole: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lanrev/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com May 20, 2010 A controversial remote administration program that a Pennsylvania school district installed on student-issued laptops contains a security hole that put the students at risk of being spied on by people outside the school, according to a security firm that examined the software. The LANrev program contains a vulnerability that would allow someone using the same network as one of the students to install malware on the laptop that could remotely control the computer. An intruder would be able to steal data from the computer or control the laptop webcam to snap surreptitious pictures. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at Leviathan Security Group, who provided Threat Level with a video (see below) demonstrating an exploit they developed. They began examining the program after customers who saw media coverage of the Pennsylvania case expressed concern that the program might be exposing their employee computers to intrusion from outsiders. The same software is used by many businesses to monitor and maintain their employee laptops. [...] |
| Call for strategy to fight cyber threats Posted: InfoSec News: Call for strategy to fight cyber threats: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2010/May/theuae_May541.xml§ion=theuae By Mohammad Abdul Qudoos Khaleej Times 20 May 2010 The UAE should have a strategy to defend itself against cyber crimes, cyber espionage and the possibility of a cyber war, an expert on [...] |
| Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-20 Posted: InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-20: ======================================================================== The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2010-05-13 - 2010-05-20 This week: 49 advisories [...] |
| Floyd Landis takes aim after drugs admission Posted: InfoSec News: Floyd Landis takes aim after drugs admission: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/cycling/article7131630.ece [Back in February 2010 Floyd Landis was accused of hacking into a doping lab - http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/1002/17254.html - WK] By Owen Slot The Times May 21, 2010 [...] |
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