Fugitive spammer dead in apparent murder-suicide   25 Jul 2008 09:10 GMT
Spammer and escaped convict Eddie Davidson shot his wife and three-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself Thursday night in Bennet, Colorado.

Source: Computerworld

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon   24 Jul 2008 21:30 GMT
I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...
Source: ZDNet

Ingres gives Fortify security study a good fisking   24 Jul 2008 16:22 GMT
Open source projects in Fortify's Open Review report fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary products in the same review. by Dana Blankenhorn
Source: ZDNet

Apple looking to hire iPhone hacker   24 Jul 2008 15:43 GMT
Apple is in the market for someone capable of hacking into the iPhone. According to this job listing, the company is looking for an iPhone Security Engineer capable of, among other things, developing "proof of concept" attacks on the device's current security mechanisms. ...
Source: ZDNet

Researchers unleash DNS attack code   24 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
Security researchers have released attack code that can silently redirect users to unintended sites using a critical flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System.

Source: Computerworld

Oregon man sentenced to four years for piracy, ID theft   24 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
An Oregon man is sentenced to four years in prison on criminal copyright and ID theft charges.

Source: Computerworld

News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Faceblook   24 Jul 2008 10:27 GMT
Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
Source: ZDNet

'Spam King' escapes from federal prison   23 Jul 2008 21:03 GMT
Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson left, also known as the "Spam King, made a run for it when his wife visited him last Sunday and is now officially...
Source: ZDNet

iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws   23 Jul 2008 18:58 GMT
Security researcher Aviv Raff left has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks. According to an advisory from Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are susceptible to a URL Spoofing vulnerability which...
Source: ZDNet

Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service   23 Jul 2008 18:21 GMT
Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...
Source: ZDNet