Metasploit has proof of concept code for exploiting MS06-040. The countdown to the worm begins. Exploit Module: netapi_ms06_040 [MetaSploit.com] Original post by Security Wonk and powered by Img Fly

The day of the primary is a bad day to have your website attacked. It had happened before but this time it looks like a DDOS attack: But the earlier two attacks involved defacements — the hacker altered content on Lieberman’s home page. This time, attackers toppled the Lieberman site ...

Wired has a story out of DefCon picturing Blackberries as the perfect backdoor into your corporate network. Since many cop orations inherently trust the blackberry straight in through their firewalls, it might be worth a read. The program, called proxy, has to be placed on a Blackberry either physically or ...

Our normal scope here is on information based security, but this you gotta see. A new lock-picking technique called “bumping” renders almost all traditional tumbler locks useless with very litte skill or tools. A bump key is a key in which all the cuts are at maximum depth. The picture below ...

The guys at Black Hat are demonstrating some interesting attacks against the device drivers for the wireless card in a MacBook Pro: The video shows Ellch and Maynor targeting a specific security flaw in the Macbook’s wireless “device driver,” the software that allows the internal wireless card to communicate with the ...

Counter to what the movies might say, hacking grades is not just cheating it’s a crime: An investigation showed the professor’s network account had been accessed without her permission and grades were assigned to nearly 300 students, prosecutor Robert Fratianne said. I bet they just guessed her password but still, there’s ...

BlackWorm Summary Published: 2006-01-26, Last Updated: 2006-01-27 02:01:42 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 3(click to highlight changes)) About BlackWorm Over the last week, “Blackworm” infected about 300,000 systems based on analysis of logs from the counter web site used by the worm to track ...