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Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system  02 September 2010 
Source: arsTechnica - Posted by Alex   
Network Security Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong.
 
Congratulations to the VOIP Forensic Challenge winners  02 September 2010 
Posted by anthony   
Intrusion Detection Late in July 2010, we assessed over 21 solutions that were submitted to the Forensic Challenge on VOIP. The solutions were exceptionally high quality. It is fair to say that we all learnt a lot about this emerging threat in the process of preparing this challenge.
 
Networked Scanners Offer A Window Into The Enterprise, Researcher Says  02 September 2010 
Source: Dark Reading - Posted by anthony   
Hacks/Cracks It happens every day -- a sensitive document lies in the copier room, forgotten by the person who left it on the scanner. No big deal, right? Nobody else was able to read it.
 
Malware hosted on Google Code project site  02 September 2010 
Source: ZDNet - Posted by anthony   
Latest News Malicious hackers are using the Google Code repository to host Trojans horses, backdoors and password stealing keyloggers, according to researchers at Zscaler.
 
New 'month of bugs' campaign outs LInux-based console flaw  02 September 2010 
Source: Search Security - Posted by Alex   
Security Projects A group of security researchers began issuing what they said will be a month-long list of undisclosed bugs, as well as detailed binary analysis of known vulnerabilities. The first zero-day: A Linux-based Web hosting console.
 
Google disputes bug patching report  02 September 2010 
Source: Computer World - Posted by Alex   
Vendors/Products Google on Monday said that a recent report claiming it failed to patch one-third of the serious bugs in its software had the facts wrong. IBM's X-Force security unit, which released the report last week, acknowledged the error and issued a revised chart that shows Google patched all the vulnerabilities rated "critical" or "high" in its online services.
 
Linux Security Week: September 1st, 2010  01 September 2010 
Source: LinuxSecurity Contributors - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Linux Security Week Thank you for reading the LinuxSecurity.com weekly security newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's most relevant Linux security headlines.
 
    
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