Moxie Marlinspike Leaving Twitter Security Team

Twitter has been collecting a lot of security talent in the last year or so, but now a major piece of the company’s security team is leaving. Moxie Marlinspike, the creative security and privacy researcher who founded Whisper Systems, which was acquired by Twitter in 2011, said on Friday that he ...

Researcher Charlie Miller Joins Twitter Security Team

Twitter quietly is assembling a serious security team, with the most recent addition being Charlie Miller, the security researcher known for finding a long line of bugs in the iPhone and other Apple products. Miller, a respected and prolific researcher, will join the social network’s security tea...

Charlie Miller Takes on NFC, Charlie Miller Wins

LAS VEGAS–Do not stand near Charlie Miller. Actually, you might not even want to let him walk past you. It’s not that Miller is a bad person, you understand. The problem is that Miller has figured out a couple of methods that enable him–or an attacker–to use the NFC chip in some phones to exploit...

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department Andrew James Miller, a 23-year-old resident of Devon, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of access device fraud, according to a statement issued by the...

Researchers bypass Google Bouncer Android Security

Researchers bypass Google Bouncer Android Security Google's Android platform has become the most popular mobile operating system both among consumers and malware writers, and the company earlier this year introduced the Bouncer system to look for malicious apps in the Google Play market. Bouncer,...

Think Safer

Not even a techno-religion is immune from security snafus, as the folks at Apple are steadily discovering. After years of watching the bad guys use crimeware kits like Zeus against Microsoft, the iGang finally got a malware construction tool to call its own in May of this year. Modeled on the...

Charlie Miller now working with DoD for Cyber Security

Charlie Miller is a former hacker who has become an information security consultant now working with Department of Defense DoD for helping out with cyber security. He was invited to the conference on cyber conflict held by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Tallinn, where ...

Charlie Miller now working with DoD for Cyber Security

Charlie Miller is a former hacker who has become an information security consultant now working with Department of Defense DoD for helping out with cyber security. He was invited to the conference on cyber conflict held by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Tallinn, where ...

Apple Releases iOS Patch Fixing Flaw That Led to Charlie Miller's Expulsion

Apple shipped an update to their IOS mobile platform on Thursday that included patches for a number of security vulnerabilities, including a resolution for a vulnerability that led to the expulsion of renowned security researcher, Charlie Miller, from Apple’s developer program. As reported by...

Apple OS X Sandbox Predefined Profiles Bypass

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Core Security - Corelabs Advisory http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/ Apple OS X Sandbox Predefined Profiles Bypass 1. Advisory Information Title: Apple OS X Sandbox Predefined Profiles Bypass Advisory ID: CORE-2011-0919 Advisory URL:...

Researcher Charlie Miller kicked out from iOS dev program for Exploiting iOS security flaw

Researcher Charlie Miller kicked out from iOS dev program for Exploiting iOS security flaw A major security flaw in Apple's iOS operating system that could allow hackers to remotely gain unauthorized access to an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad has been uncovered by a security expert "Charlie Miller "...

Researcher Charlie Miller kicked out from iOS dev program for Exploiting iOS security flaw

Researcher Charlie Miller kicked out from iOS dev program for Exploiting iOS security flaw A major security flaw in Apple's iOS operating system that could allow hackers to remotely gain unauthorized access to an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad has been uncovered by a security expert "Charlie Miller "...

Demo of Charlie Miller's iOS Code-Signing Bug

Security researcher Charlie Miller of Accuvant discovered a vulnerability in the Apple iOS software that enables him to use an app he placed in the iTunes App Store to download unsigned code from a remote Web server and run it on any iOS device. In this video, he demonstrates the app and the way...

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New iOS Jail Break Stokes Fears of Drive By Attacks

The clock is ticking for Apple to issue a patch for the iOS operating system that powers iPhones, iPods and iPads following the release of a remote exploit that uses specially crafted PDF files to defeat iOS’s content protection mechanisms and “jailbreak” mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad...

Company Offers Tool To Break iPhone Encryption

ElcomSoft, a Russian security firm, claims that a new encryption cracking tool can decode data encrypted on mobile devices running Apple’s iOS operating system. Elcomsoft says it has developed the first ever commercially available password and encryption cracking tool. The company has made a phon...

iPhone, BlackBerry Fall on Second Day of Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER–For the fourth consecutive year, researcher Charlie Miller won one of the prizes at the annual Pwn2Own contest here. The difference this time is that Miller successfully exploited an iPhone 4 to win, rather than Safari, which he’s gone after the last three years. The BlackBerry Torch 98...

Apple Safari and Internet Explorer 8 Go Down at Pwn2Own, iPhone Up Next

VANCOUVER–On the first day of the Pwn2Own contest here, contestants were able to take down both Safari on Mac OS X and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. None of the researchers decided to try their hand against Google Chrome, however, so that browser was the only one still standing after day one...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-07

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-07 Title: Memory corruption during text run construction Windows Impact: Critical Announced: March 1, 2011 Reporter: Alex Miller Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 3.6.14 Firefox 3.5.17 SeaMonkey 2.0.12 Description Alex Miller reported that wh...

Union leader Crow claims phone was hacked !

Firebrand abutment baton Bob Crow on Monday became the best recent accessible amount to accuse to the badge that his buzz has been afraid by journalists. Lawyers for Bob Crow, general-secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Carriage Workers' union, accept accounting to London's Metropolitan Badge...