$100 000 cracking prize goes unclaimed at CES

Despite 45 teams trying for up to two hours at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it seems that the latest USB drive-equipped Swiss Army Knife – which sports an encrypted (Elliptical Curve and AES) data storage feature – was uncracked.

January 20, 2010
Read More >>

PDF attacks target defense community

Evidence of further targeted attacks are surfacing, just days after Google and other technology companies announced that they had been the victims of a concerted campaign. This time, the attacks targeted PDFs of those in the US defense community, and o…

January 18, 2010
Read More >>

Internet Explorer zero-day code goes public

The Internet Explorer exploit code used in the Operation Aurora attack against Google and other technology companies has made it into the public domain, and has been incorporated into the Metasploit penetration testing tool, it was revealed this weekend.

January 18, 2010
Read More >>

Blackhats and whitehats react to Haiti tragedy

Blackhats and whitehats reacted with typical polarity to the disastrous Haiti earthquake this week. One faction unleashed a torrent of malware capitalizing on the tragedy, while the other organized a series of ‘hackathons’ to help develop technologies …

January 16, 2010
Read More >>