How to hack a wifi network in a few minutes. Nishang – Use PowerShell for Penetration Testing – Hacking Tools … Criminal Identity Theft – Stancy Nesby. Ebook The Art of Human Hacking. Computer Security, What Makes It a Must for Your Home PC. Confirmed: US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it. iPhone SMS bug said to be serious threat. Attacker able to send text message that seems to come from a trusted source, says security researcher (RT @pcis: #network #security iPhone SMS bug said to be serious threat – August 17, 2012 — CSO — Security on… See on www.csoonline.com.
Top Ten Ways to Ensure the Security of Your Network. Interconnection of Gauss Malware with Stuxnet, Duqu & Flame. British Stuxnet could have unintended fallout, government admits. Summary: The risk of state-sponsored malware escaping into the wild is ‘something we’ve got to live with’, the Cabinet Office has said, as MPs push for the UK to build its own Stuxnet-like software (RT British Stuxnet could have unintended fallout,… See on www.zdnet.com.
Apple Responds To SMS Spoofing Hack, Instructs Us All To Use iMessage Instead. iPhone bug allows sms phishing, tech security blogger warns. Patch. Feds Bust Alleged ID Theft Crime Ring – Patch.com. Porous Network Perimeters Sometimes Caused By People – Dark Reading (blog) Week in review: Shamoon attacks, automated hacking, Assange granted asylum in Ecuador.
Posted on 20 August 2012.
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, reviews, videos and articles: Scientists create algorithm for tracking down sources of online attacks Swiss researcher Pedro Pinto and his team from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have revealed a new strategy for localizing the source of threat diffusion in complex networks. Microsoft and NYPD unveil new centralized surveillance system New York City and Microsoft have joined forces and developed a new computer system that aggregates and analyzes the information gathered through a number of public safety data streams in real time in order to combat crime and other threats in the city.