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From Dark Reading: Adobe’s Reader and Acrobat PDF applications have been hit by a new attack exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the pervasive tools. So far the exploit has been used mostly in targeted attacks, but researchers say it could soon spread now that the cat is out of the bag. Adobe late yesterday issued [...]

From SecurityFocus: The cybercriminals behind the Zeus botnet used Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) to host the central server used to control a portion of the compromised machines, security firm CA stated on Thursday. The company found that infected machines would contact a server hosted in Amazon’s cloud to download updates and additional functionality to [...]

From Dark Reading: Keyloggers and spyware are the most commonly occurring attacks in companies that suffer major data breaches, according to a report published today by Verizon Business. The new report, “2009 Supplemental Data Breach Investigations Report: An Anatomy of a Data Breach,” offers a look at the 15 most common security attacks and how [...]

From ISC SANS: The almost universally installed flash player of adobe has been update to version 10.0.42.34. Adobe air was upgraded as well to version 1.5.3. Read more about it in the apsb09-19 bulletin from adobe. The reason behind it are 7 vulnerabilities: CVE-2009-3794, CVE-2009-3796, CVE-2009-3797, CVE-2009-3798, CVE-2009-3799, CVE-2009-3800 and, CVE-2009-3951 of which 6 lead [...]

From Dark Reading: An Israeli mobile security firm that a month ago offered $100,000 in gold to anyone who could hack its voice encryption technology has upped the ante to $250,000. Gold Lock posted a sample of an encrypted voice conversation on its Website and is offering the golden reward to any hackers who can [...]

From Ars Technica: In a couple of years, crossing the 1Gbps threshold with a WiFi access point will be routine. That access point will likely have two radios, one for each major spectrum band, and support a host of older flavors for compatibility. Eventually, WiFi will approach the robustness and speed needed to make it [...]

From Wired’s This Day in Tech: 1999: The Recording Industry Association of America sues Napster, the online, peer-to-peer file sharing service that’s allowing millions of computer users to score free, copyright music. The rules are about to change. Napster founder Shawn Fanning won rock-star celebrity with the service. But music-industry heads were spinning. So, the [...]

I found a nice guide on cleaning up all those nasty gadgets you have laying around the house and office.  From Gizmodo: Hey, you, your gadgets are disgusting. And wiping them with your greasy shirt sleeve isn’t making things any better. Here’s how to clean your gadgets, the right way.

Found a great article on network broadcasts today on ISC SANS: So Rob, you say, aren’t we done talking about protecting switches and the like at Layer 2 yet?  We talked about Man in the Middle Attacks in October, and Layer 2 remediation against Man in the Middle Attacks in November, that should cover it, [...]

From Taranfx: Who was that someone shouting loud that only Jailbreaking makes iPhone insecure?  We now have a new App that makes even an UnModified/Virgin iPhone leak personal data like you have never seen before. A Swiss iPhone developer has unveiled a new application that is capable of harvesting huge amounts of personal data from [...]