3 Patches – x bugs addressed Affecting Kernel, SChannel, DNS/WINS Other updates, MSRT, Defender Definitions, Junk Mail Filter 3 Security Patches - 1 Critical, 2 Important –MS – Kernel (GDI via EMF or WMF image), Remote Execution –MS – SChannel, Allows Spoofing “Customers are only affected when the public key component of the certificate used for authentication has been obtained by the attacker through other means.” –MS – DNS/WINS (WPAD and ISATAP registration), Allows Spoofing Patch Tuesday
Apple –55 fixes –Some reports of broken Perl Mac OS X xnu nel memory disclosure Telent FreeBSD 7.0 –Exploit on milw0rm Yet another Adobe Reader bug –PoC on milw0rm …and Flash Player Gmail CSRF BlackBerry Activex component Opera / Winamp / Excel Holes / Patches
Hacking MS ponies up 250K confiker bounty Air Force claims tool can id “bad” torrents …mean while back at the ranch Maxwell AFB cuts external connection MS exploits seen in the wild –Sourcefire release home brew patched.dll MS release autorun patch Rumors of Windows 7 DRM badness TrapCall service bypasses CallerID blocking VMWare demos dual OS phone (simultaneous ops)
Games Sega cuts jobs Quake Live –Open beta feb 24
Corp. Hell Metasploit to offer services Novell Launches Moonlight (silverlight for linux) Leak of Windows 7 Beta Palm drops PalmOS for WebOS FaceBook changes TOS and changes back Twitter is master of downtime Symantec takes down server after the SQL Injection that did not happen X-Box cuts gay subscriptions Linux Foundation buys linux.com Gmail Outage
Papers "Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)“ –UK - Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure Fortify code review of NIST SHA-3 contestants MS Gazelle – secure web browser Summary of Metasploit DDoS
Film / Music 6 th season of Futurama Netflix to launch streaming only plan
WTF Wisconsin download tax Solar power hits $1 a watt Diebold logs are crap
Legal PirateBay in Court All your RFID are belong to felons Senate Bill felony for anyone to possess, read or capture the personally identifying RFID information of others without their consent Internet Saftey Act of 2009
Debian 5.0 PcapParser Ratproxy dragonflybsd 2.2 D ported to Mac Safari 4 OSSEC 2.0 Qt 4.5 Updates
CON Events BlackHat DC Kaminsky / DNSSEC Militarized cyberspace New XSS Fun with Facial Biometrics SSL Strip CanSecWest (5 days) Pwn2Own – Laptop and Mobile devices DefCon CFP
SOURCE Boston, Mar / Boston MA CarolinaCon 4, Mar / Chapel Hill NC Notacon 5, Apr / Cleveland OH Hack In The Box, Apr / Dubai ToorCon Seattle, 18 – 20 Apr / Seattle Trooper 08, 23 – 24 Apr / Munich Interop, 27 Apr - 2 May / Las Vegas NV Layerone, 17 – 18 May / Pasadena CA DallasCon 2008, TBD / Dallas, TX MS BlueHat Spring 2008, May / Redmond WA
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