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Sony hacking suspect smashes computers to get out of prosecution

2013-05-13/0 Comments/in General Security/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security: A 23-year-old man suspected of helping to hack into Sony’s PlayStation Network got out of being penalized for the crime by smashing his computers and making his hard drives disappear. Todd M. Miller, of Columbus, in the US state of Ohio, was sentenced on Thursday to a year on house arrest for obstructing […]

May Patch Tuesday coming up – Microsoft still not sure if latest 0-day fix will make the cut

2013-05-13/0 Comments/in Vulnerability & Threat Report/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security on patch Tuesday : Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for May 2013 will be published in the coming week. It’ll be out on Tuesday 14 May 2013. (Wednesday 14 May for everywhere from about Malaysia eastwards.) Here’s the elevator pitch: 33 vulnerabilities identified and fixed. Ten separate patches. Eight rated Important. (Apply ASAP.) Two rated Critical. (Apply […]

Sony hacking suspect smashes computers to get out of prosecution

2013-05-13/0 Comments/in General Security/by fdesir

May Patch Tuesday coming up – Microsoft still not sure if latest 0-day fix will make the cut

2013-05-13/0 Comments/in Vulnerability & Threat Report/by fdesir

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Sony hacking suspect smashes computers to get out of prosecution

2013-05-13/0 Comments/in General Security/by fdesir

Todd M. Miller, of Columbus, in the US state of Ohio, was sentenced on Thursday to a year on house arrest for obstructing a federal investigation and styming an FBI investigation into the hack.

According to The Columbus Dispatch, the judge also sentenced Miller to three years probation and ordered him to get his high-school equivalence certificate.

US District Judge Peter C. Economus said in federal court that Miller was a member of a hacking group called the KCUF clan that, starting in 2008, organized an ongoing attack on Sony’s servers.

The hack took the PlayStation Network offline in April 2011. Sony soon realized that the breach had enabled the attackers to access the personal data, including credit card information, of millions of online gamers.

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May Patch Tuesday coming up – Microsoft still not sure if latest 0-day fix will make the cut

2013-05-13/0 Comments/in Vulnerability & Threat Report/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security on patch Tuesday : Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for May 2013 will be published in the coming week.

It’ll be out on Tuesday 14 May 2013. (Wednesday 14 May for everywhere from about Malaysia eastwards.)

Here’s the elevator pitch:

33 vulnerabilities identified and fixed.
Ten separate patches.
Eight rated Important. (Apply ASAP.)
Two rated Critical. (Apply immediately.)
A reboot is required.

Loosely translated, Microsoft’s interpretation of important means that an exploit against the vulnerability is likely to be found, but you’ll probably get some sort of warning, such as a pop-up dialog, if an attacker tries to use it.

On the other hand, critical means not just that a exploit is likely (or already known), but that it can be used silently – what’s known as a drive-by install – without popups or any other kind of warning.

The burning question about the May 2013 Patch Tuesday is this: will it fixCVE-2013-1347?

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