Recent exploits evade Adobe's countermeasures; patch not ready

March 6, 2009 (Computerworld) An unpatched bug in popular PDF viewing and editing applications is much more dangerous than first thought, according to security researchers who have created exploits that sidestep Adobe's defensive recommendations.

Last week, a researcher who works at the Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia said he had come up with an exploit that didn't rely on JavaScript. Read more..

More about Conficker Worm

Users can protect themselves from the worm by installing Microsoft's MS08-067 security update, using strong passwords and disabling Windows' Autoplay and Autorun features.
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Configuring LILO

LILO is the Linux Loader, the most popular boot loader for Linux. It is used to load Linux into memory and start the operating system. On a machine with multiple operating systems, LILO can be configured to boot the other systems as well.

Normally LILO is initially configured for you during the Linux installation process. However, you may find that default configuration is not correct, or you wish to customize it. And there may even come a time when you need to remove LILO from your computer. Here are some instructions that should help you on your quest.

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SANS Salary Survey '09

Salary Survey '09

Analyzing PDF files and Shellcode

Posted by jeremy on November 11th, 2008 from Sudosecure.net


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Starbucks sued after laptop data breach

The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court in Seattle. Starbucks has offered employees one-year's free credit monitoring and protection, but Krottner is asking the court to extend that to five years. She is also seeking unspecified damages and asking that Starbucks be ordered to submit to periodic security audits of its computer systems. Read More...

Conficker B++?

"From late November through December 2008 we recorded more than 13,000 Conficker infections within our honeynet, and surveyed more than 1.5 million infected IP addresses from 206 countries. More recently, our cumulative census of Conficker.A indicates that it has affected more than 4.7 million IP addresses, while its successor, Conficker.B, has affected 6.7M IP addresses"

Read more on SRI's Analysis Report