Lame Stuxnet worm 'full of errors', says security consultant

Lame Stuxnet worm 'full of errors', says security consultant

Lame Stuxnet worm 'full of errors', says security consultant

Posted:

InfoSec News: Lame Stuxnet worm 'full of errors', says security consultant: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/19/stuxnet_male_decry_security_researchers/
By John Leyden The Register 19th January 2011
Far from being cyber-spy geniuses with ninja-like black-hat coding skills, the developers of Stuxnet made a number of mistakes that exposed [...]

EU Carbon Trading Declines as Regulator Halts Spot Market on Hacking Probe

Posted:

InfoSec News: EU Carbon Trading Declines as Regulator Halts Spot Market on Hacking Probe: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-20/carbon-trading-declines-as-eu-regulator-halts-spot-market-on-hacking-probe.html
By Ewa Krukowska and Mathew Carr Bloomberg Jan 20, 2011
Futures trading in European Union carbon allowances fell and an investors group said it was “very concerned” after regulators disabled spot transactions in the world’s biggest emissions program because of alleged hacking.
Volumes shrank to about 305,000 metric tons in the first 90 minutes of trading, or a rate of 200,000 tons per hour, compared with yesterday’s 1.2 million. Prices for EU permits for December 2011, which fell yesterday the most in a week, were little changed today at 14.40 euros ($19.45) a metric ton as of 10:10 a.m. on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London.
The European Commission suspended most operations yesterday at all 30 of the region’s greenhouse-gas emissions registries after a Czech firm reported about 6.8 million euros of carbon allowances stolen in a hacking attack. The Nasdaq OMX Commodities exchange said today it's suspending trading and clearing of prompt-delivery EU allowances, or EUAs, and United Nations-supervised Certified Emission Reductions “until further notice.”
“Trading in and clearing of EUA and CER forward, futures and options remains open,” Nasdaq said in an e-mailed statement. “However, the situation will be closely monitored to ensure that orderly trading and clearing can take place.”
[...]

Casino Gambler Databases Becoming A Key Tool For Hackers

Posted:

InfoSec News: Casino Gambler Databases Becoming A Key Tool For Hackers: http://www.casinogamblingweb.com/gambling-news/casino-gambling/casino_gambler_databases_becoming_a_key_tool_for_hackers_56344.html
By Tom Jones Staff Editor CasinoGamblingWeb.com January 19, 2011
Players club points can be a valuable commodity when it comes to [...]

Oracle patching fewer database flaws as it adds more products

Posted:

InfoSec News: Oracle patching fewer database flaws as it adds more products: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9205560/Oracle_patching_fewer_database_flaws_as_it_adds_more_products
By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld January 19, 2011
Oracle Corp.'s ability to address vulnerabilities in its core database technologies may be hampered by the vast number of products the company now must manage, security experts say.
For example, the list of Oracle's quarterly security updates released Tuesday includes only six patches for security flaws in the company's flagship database products. The other 60 patches released fix bugs in Oracle's Fusion middleware technologies, its supply chain and CRM software and products gained from its acquisition of Sun Microsystems early last year.
The small number of database patches doesn't necessarily mean that the Oracle technology is becoming more secure, said Alex Rothacker, director of security at Application Security Inc.'s Team Shatter vulnerability assessment group.
Rather, it likely shows that the company doesn't have the capacity to fix the full list of Oracle database flaws reported to it in a timely fashion, said Rothacker, whose team of researchers discovered three of the six database flaws addressed in this week's update.
[...]

Two Arrested For AT&T iPad Network Breach

Posted:

InfoSec News: Two Arrested For AT&T iPad Network Breach: http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000863
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek January 19, 2011
United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman on Tuesday announced the arrest of "two self-described Internet 'trolls'" for their alleged involvement [...]

Smartphone Hack Highlights More GSM Woes

Posted:

InfoSec News: Smartphone Hack Highlights More GSM Woes: http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/vulnerabilities/229000934/smartphone-hack-highlights-more-gsm-woes.html
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Darkreading Jan 19, 2011
ARLINGTON, VA -- Black Hat DC -- A European researcher today showed how [...]

N. Korea hackers attack defector website: report

Posted:

InfoSec News: N. Korea hackers attack defector website: report: http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/DesktopArticle.aspx?ArticleID=556440&ChannelId=16
TerraNet January 19, 2011
Suspected North Korean hackers have launched a cyber attack on the website of a radio station that has aired harsh criticism of the country's communist regime, defectors said Tuesday. [...]

Career Bobs

Posted by Rohan ingale at 1:36 AM

0 comments:

Post a Comment