October, 2006: 9.6 million Sony batteries recalled after reports of overheating

This was just the first in what would prove to be a string of embarrassments to the Japanese firm over the manufacture of laptop batteries. It began with reports in both Japan and the U.S. about Sony-manufactured lithium ion batteries that were overheating and, in some cases, bursting into flames...

Respect The Fuzzer

This image from Charlie Miller’s CanSecWest presentation credit InfoSec Events shows how a small home-brewed fuzzing tool found multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in Apple’s Preview, Microsoft’s PowerPoint and OpenOffice. At the Pwn2Own contest, all the vulnerabilities used in the winning...

Mac OS X Mega-Update Fixes 33 Security Defects

Apple today shipped another Mac OS X mega-update with fixes for at least 33 serious security problems affecting Mac OS X users. The update includes patches for third party components like Adobe’s Flash Player plug-in, Clam AV, MySQL and PHP. A separate update was released for Snow Leopard to fix...

The CMWAP of the test-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Author: demonalex Source: demonalex the diary of a madman 1 test ARP. The first test is the BAN of inspiration, in the CMWAP under the ARP test, but through the GPRS into the CMWAP is the PPP Protocol with the ARP in different Protocol stacks, so the ARP in GPRS connected to the CMWAP is not...

CVE-2006-3858

IBM Informix Dynamic Server IDS before 9.40.xC8 and 10.00 before 10.00.xC4 stores passwords in plaintext in shared memory, which allows local users to obtain passwords by reading the memory product defects 171893, 171894, 173772...

HP-UX PHNE_16091 : s700_800 11.00 r-commands cumulative patch

s700800 11.00 r-commands cumulative patch : Various remote network commands have security defects. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and patch checks in this plugin were extracted from HP patch PHNE16091. The text itself is copyright C Hewlett-Packard...