Microsoft has released two security advisories in the past week, confirming two separate ActiveX vulnerabilities. Exploit code is circulating for both threats, but Microsoft hasn’t yet released patches. Get the details in this edition of the IT Locksmith, and learn about possible workarounds.
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The Spammers Strike Back
Everybody’s seen it by now. Spam is up like gangbusters in the last few months. And not just in volume; a lot more of it is getting through filtering mechanisms that had previously been pretty reliable. It’s an aggravating and depressing situation.
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Tutorial: All You Ever Wanted to Know About PW Cracking and Rainbow Tables
Security mentor, Chris Gates, completely rewrote his popular article on cracking Windows PWs. Starting with the basics and continuing all the way through the process of exactly how to do it, this impressive article has to be one of the definitive works on password cracking. Very well done.
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FBI Baits & Hooks Massive Global Phishing Ring
The investigation targeted both hackers, who compromised about 50 servers in order to launch the phishing attacks, and those who sought to acquire stolen financial data. Agents identify a ring of identitied thieves who were acquiring and trading stolen credit and debit card numbers through an online forum
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Homeland Security to “Target” Millions in Data-Mining System!
The Department of Homeland Security today published a notice in the Federal Register disclosing the existence of a “new system of records” — the Automated Targeting System (ATS) — that assigns “risk assessments” to millions of U.S. citizens who seek “to enter or exit the United States” or whose work involves international trade.
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Army command laptop missing
The Army’s Accessions Command in Ft. Monroe, Va., reported a laptop computer with personal information on 4,600 scholarship applicants for the Reserve Officer Training Corps went missing Oct. 23.
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Technology’s Threat to National Security
As offshore outsourcing grows in popularity, and as more technology is purchased from countries ideologically opposed to the U.S., the risk
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American Election Hacker Testifies
He tells the members how he was hired by Congressman Tom Feeney in 2000 to build a prototype software package that would secretly rig an election to sway the result 51 / 49 to a specified side.
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How To Hack a Windows XP Admin Password
Here is exactly how to hack a Windows XP Admin Password and not get caught. Have fun.
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NSA chooses Linux
The NSA maintains a custom build of Linux: “Unfortunately, existing mainstream operating systems [that’s Windows] lack the critical security feature required for enforcing separation: mandatory access control. The results of several previous research projects in this area have been incorporated in a security-enhanced Linux system.