A Bootiful Podcast: UL Systems founder and chairman Shigeru Urushibara interviews.. me?

Hi, Spring fans! I just crossed 13 years on the Spring team! I just got to spend a lovely day in the presence of one of my heroes and friends, UL Systems founder and chairman, Shigeru Urushibara-san @ulsystems, here in Tokyo, Japan, and in this episode, we sort of flip the script. We had a brief...

The history of a -probably- 13 years old Oracle bug: TNS Poison

tl;dr - Patch your database ASAP with Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2012. Introduction ------------ The following advisory explains a vulnerability I found in 2008 in all versions of Oracle Database server until very recently. The bug is probably available in any Oracle Database version sinc...

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack A 27 year old man "Kenneth Joseph Lucas II " from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation "Phish Phry" in 2009. The tw...

Former Researcher Iceman Sentenced to 13 Years

A former security researcher turned criminal hacker has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers. Max Ray Butler, who used the hacker pseudonym Iceman, was sentenced Friday morning in U.S. District Court in...