General Security
Metasploit Tutorial - Simple Icecast Exploit

This module exploits a buffer overflow in the header parsing of icecast, discovered by Luigi Auriemma. Sending 32 HTTP headers will cause a write one past the end of a pointer array. On win32 this happens to overwrite the saved instruction pointer, and on linux (depending on compiler, etc) this seems to generally overwrite nothing crucial (read not exploitable).

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General Security
Cyber Espionage: The Chinese Threat (Full Episode) CNBC

It’s what experts at the highest levels of government say is the biggest threat to America’s economic security. Cyber spies hacking into U.S. corporations’ computer networks are stealing valuable trade secrets, intellectual property data and confidential business strategies.

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Cloud Security
Securing the Cloud eConference!

Apple and Google are ramping up their server farms to prepare for massive increases in the use of cloud platforms. Road warriors and consumers the world over are already accessing music, film and data via cloud implementations, like iTunes and Google Docs, and reliance on these systems will only increase.

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General Security
'Internet doomsday' impact minimal, service providers say

Hours after "Internet doomsday" kicked in, major service providers say almost all customers have avoided the shut-off of their Internet service, although there are some who will not be able to read this story online, unless it's on their smartphones.

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General Security
Cyber Espionage: The Chinese Threat

Experts at the highest levels of government say it's the biggest threat facing American business today. Hackers are stealing valuable trade secrets, intellectual property and confidential business strategies. investigationsinc.cnbc.com It's what experts at the highest levels of government say is the biggest threat to America's economic security. Cyber spies hacking into U.S. corporations' computer networks […]

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General Security
Understanding and Protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

What is Pii? It is Personally Identifiable Information (PII), a term used in information technology sector to describe information about an individual that could potentially identify that person, such as a name, email address, street address, telephone number or social security number or other biometric data, number.

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