The Polish government has presented a new law that would allow services and websites to be blocked without judicial review — based merely on blacklists — and obligate ISPs to provide detailed customer data
Go to Source
Archive for Dezember, 2009
Poland apparently planning to control Internet much more strictly
Donnerstag, Dezember 31st, 200926C3: Encryption code for DECT mobile phones cracked
Donnerstag, Dezember 31st, 2009In addition to the crypto algorithm for GSM, security researchers have also cracked the encryption code used for phone calls based on the widely used DECT standard
Go to Source
26C3: Protection against Flash security holes
Mittwoch, Dezember 30th, 2009Felix "FX" Lindner of the Phenoelit hacker group has presented the open source "Blitzableiter" (lightning rod) tool which checks Flash files and removes potential garbage before playback
Go to Source
26C3: Nothing to crack in "Legic Prime" RFID chip cards security system
Mittwoch, Dezember 30th, 2009Security researchers Karsten Nohl and Henryk Plötz have read out and cloned Legic’s Prime series radio chip cards
Go to Source
Mozilla Foundation delays future Firefoxes
Mittwoch, Dezember 30th, 2009Firefox 3.6 is to miss its 2009 debut and this change has created other schedule slippages in the Mozilla release plan
Go to Source
Microsoft confirms IIS hole
Dienstag, Dezember 29th, 2009The hole can apparently not be exploited in standard installations. It remains unclear when a patch will become available, but there are instructions for first aid security measures
Go to Source
26C3: Network design weaknesses
Dienstag, Dezember 29th, 2009According to security researcher Fabian Yamaguchi, the combination of various typical vulnerabilities allows dangerous attacks on many average networks
Go to Source
XBMC open source media centre has new interface
Dienstag, Dezember 29th, 2009Version 9.11 of the XBMC open source media center software plays videos and music in a revised user interface. The developers have also updated the import filters and video codecs included
Go to Source
Security flaw in Microsoft IIS
Montag, Dezember 28th, 2009Various versions of Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) contain a security flaw that can be exploited to inject and execute malicious code on Windows web servers. The problem occurs during the parsing of file names with semicolon extensions
Go to Source
Microsoft promises not to press charges against Moonlight users
Freitag, Dezember 25th, 2009A new patent agreement gives users of Moonlight, a Silverlight implementation, more legal security. But the situation for Linux distributors will probably not improve
Go to Source