20:56 Cleaning up disk space with XinorbisI love my not-so-little desktop PC. It’s got 3 gigs of memory, an Nvidia 8600 graphics card, two monitors an AMD X2 4600 processor and half a terabyte of hard drive space, plus another terabyte of external drive space. But when I originally built it I only had a 160 gig drive and wanted the [...] >>>
19:55 Researcher generates executable MD5 collisions with Authenticode signed binaryWe have heard quite a bit recently about the dangers of using MD5, a now-broken cryptographic hash routine, for determining the validity of SSL certificates. Today we see that a researcher has taken a major step in generating malicious software whose signature matches that of an Authenticode-signed binary.
Researcher Didier Stevens has shown that the [...]
Symantec boss John Thompson is on a two-person shortlist to fill the role of the next US Commerce Secretary, the final unfilled vacancy in President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet.
00:28 Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnetWhat if security researchers were able to disrupt the leftovers of the Storm Worm botnet thanks to a flaw in its communication model allowing them to redirect infected hosts and eventually disinfect them, but fearing legal action have their hands tied?
At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress, which took place in December, 2008, German researchers Georg [...]
Downadup, the superworm that attacks a patched vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, is making exponential gains if estimates from researchers at F-Secure are accurate. They show 6.5 million new infections in the past four days, bringing the total number of machines it has compromised to almost 9 million.
