We all know our good friends at Microsoft are not shy for a stunt here and there, but now they really hit the jackpot… Brian Krebs from The Washington Post has been advising the average Windows user on various things. A while ago, people started asking him if they could trust a Service Pack for [...]
Tuesday (yes I know… I’m late ), there has been a report of a critical security vulnerability in Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. The bug affect version 8.x and probably also all prior versions. Version 9 is said to be not affected. The hole is exploited through the use of a specially constructed pdf-file using javascript. When [...]
Yesterday, Microsoft has issued a critical emergency patch for all it’s currently supported platforms. The patch is to plug a security hole that allows unauthorized access to the system. More in detail, the vulnerability is caused by a hole in the Server Service. Using a custom crafted RPC-call, an attacker could execute code without any [...]
The University of Twente has made a press release about a PhD of one of their students, the Romanian Ileana Buhan, that has developed a way of using pictures for generating passwords. The idea is that when exchanging data between for example PDA’s using Bluetooth, a 4-digit password is not secure and can easily be [...]
