HackFest Series: News

[Lisa Kachold]

UK Parliement Website Hacked:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/UK-Parliament-Website-Hacked-120511.shtml

Apache.org SSH key compromise = Site Taken Offline: 0
http://www.h-online.com/security/SSH-Key-compromise-takes-Apache-org-offline-Update-2--/news/114115

Stealing 130 million credit cards:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/stealing_130_mi.html

Automated SQLi injection Attacks Spreading:
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200935/4314/SQL-Injection-attack-still-spreading-84000-and-counting

Twitter Fails to block XSS Flaw:
http://www.h-online.com/security/Twitter-fails-to-block-Cross-Site-Scripting-flaw--/news/114092

Small Business Identity Theft and Fraud:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/small_business.html

Yahoo Local Hacked:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Local-Hacked-120044.shtml
SQL Injection in Yahoo, mysql 5, with shell upload possibility:
http://unu1234567.wordpress.com/

Cracking GSM via distributed computing:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10316812-245.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1009_3-0-20

Flash Attack Vectors (and worms):
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7015&rss

Military Server compromised:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=7918

Nessus Web App Assessment (with Video) DVL:
http://www.digitalbond.com/index.php/2009/08/24/more-on-nessus-web-app-assessment/

Distributed iFRAME M$ Bot attack using 55,000 sites:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4091

For Ryan: Apple says it's not to blame for Exploding iPhones:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10321361-37.html

BaseCamp One Wrong Click XSS:
http://evilpacket.net/2009/jul/9/basecamp-one-wrong-click/

BSD Smp Null Pointer rooting:
http://www.frasunek.com/kqueue.txt

SQL Injection Demystified:
http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=T0OAY0UES5KRBQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN?articleID=219401046

Businessweek - Profit or Programmer failure:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7977/29841672.png

It happened, we watched it.  That's the week in news!


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