MetaFilter posts tagged with vulnerability

And DJB's $500 is safe for another day

Skorgu — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:57:48 -0800

A major flaw in the DNS system is promised to be revealed at the next Black Hat conference. Convinced it was too important to wait, security researcher Dan Kaminsky (video, autoplays) convinced several software vendors to issue emergency patches today, before publicizing details of the attack. It can't be that serious though, can it? Oh yes it can.

Fear(less)

hadjiboy — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:25:05 -0800

Why Real Men Don't Cry [YouTube] On the other hand.

Introducing Jikto

scalefree — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:40:05 -0800

Klaatu barada...Jikto? First there was Nikto. Then along came Wikto. Last Saturday at Shmoocon Billy Hoffman introduced the world to Jitko, a client-side vulnerability scanner that exploits your browser & turns your PC into a platform for finding holes in computers across the Internet (or behind your firewall). Reactions were mixed. Does Jikto go too far?

Tinfoil wallets anyone?

quite unimportant — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:42:33 -0800

Technological convenience or target identifier? In the most recent chapter in the RFID + US Passport story, LA-based security analysts Flexilis--those of the world record attempt RFID read at last year's DEFCON--noticed a security vulnerability in the RF shielding being proposed for the October release of the next generation US passport. And they made a hell of a proof of concept video showing a possible exploit of the vulnerability.

Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems

event — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:59:09 -0800

Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems. The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped to stop the recorder remotely [bugmenot]. It is also possible to falsify the numbers dialed [pdf].