
Hurricane Labs Hmmm. This is messed up - 'Mafia Wars' CEO Brags About Scamming Users from Day One.
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'Mafia Wars' CEO Brags About Scamming Users from Day One I've never played Mafia Wars myself, but it's a very popular Facebook game that many of my friends play and annoy me with the constant broadcast news feed messages. ...

Hurricane Labs has responsibly disclosed a security issue to Check Point Software related to their Edge line of products...

Hurricane Labs New malware emerges for jailbroken iPhones, the malware attempts to steal online banking credentials: http://hlurl.com/4t
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The malware, called iBotnet.A, attempts to steal online banking credentials and is capable of spreading across a network and hijacking iPhones and iPod touches for use in a botnet.

Hurricane Labs We all knew this was coming - The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market: http://hlurl.com/4s
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Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls.

I had the wonderful chance to visit a new doctor today (not that my old doctor was much better about this) and had the chance to be left alone, with her computer, for about 10 minutes, unlocked. For those that know me know this is not a good scenario...

http://extendedsubset.com/?p=8 More to come and there is no public exploit code I'm aware of (but there will be soon I'm sure). This will essentially allow you "splice" several connections together so that you can snoop on someone's encrypted connection without them really knowing it...

Written by: Rick DeaconSo you have some things you’d like to have pen-tested. Maybe it’s some web applications or a subnet of Internet facing IP addresses. Maybe it’s just some of your internal network or internal physical security. Eith...

Last week was the Information Security Summit at Tri-C Corporate College East. It was my first time at the Summit, so I went in looking to learn something new. Looking over the 'pre-con' training that they had to offer, I noticed an inexpensive course on NAC (Network Access Control)...

When I first got into this business (many, many moons ago) it was about trying to help people build proper networks and applications, there was not much else. I mean sure you had some standards and compliance stuff to deal with but the business was not built around these things...

Hurricane Labs The Information Security Summit is the largest security conference in Northeast Ohio. It features 2 days of talks, presentations, hands-on workshops, and a vendor trade-show fair. Information Security Technology, Business/Management, Law Enforcement and Legal issues are featured. This year the conference attendance gr...ew to 400. Each year more and more security professionals are taking advantage of this worthwhile event.

If you were one of the lucky people to pick up one of the red USB sticks at this year's Information Security Summit fear not! There's nothing malicious on it. It was merely an exercise to see how aware some security folks are these day...

Hurricane Labs Win a Kindle at the Inforamation Security Summit after the Open Source Phone Auditing talk at 2:20PM in room 130. We have a feeling it's going to be a successful event!
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The 2009 Information Security Summit features 2 days of talks, presentations, hands-on workshops, and a vendor trade-show fair. Information Security Technology, Business/Management, Law Enforcement and Legal issues are featured.

Hurricane Labs Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight. http://hlurl.com/20
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Cisco is using its dominance in network router gear to make a strong play for the heart of Linux-based server computing. Read this blog post by Matt Asay on The Open Road.

Hurricane Labs Compliance vs Security. What is a security scan? Being secure is much more than being compliant: http://hlurl.com/1y http://hlurl.com/1y
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I understand that you could probably ask a dozen IT professionals to define a “security scan” and you will likely get more than a few different answers. Is it a network scan, virus scan, malware scan, ...



















