Apple Bug Dispute; How Google Handles Hacked Sites
Links du jour: An assortment of security stories floating around blogland that you should be reading... |
Google's Matt Cutts offers a must-read explanation for how the search engine deals with hacked sites. TechMeme has more.
The MoKB (month of kernel bugs) ended the way it started -- exposing problems with Wi-Fi device drivers in Apple's Mac OS X -- but there is a dispute brewing about the severity of one of the project's Apple bugs. SecurityFocus covers the story.
Matasano's Dino Dai Zovi makes an argument for a vulnerability arbitrator to sift through the claims/counterclaims between hackers and vendors.
Did Valleywag really get hacked? Wired's 27B Stroke 6 claims it broke into the gossip site's CMS and redirected news tips elsewhere, but Nick Denton's people e-mailed to stress that it's a software bug and *not* a security breach.
Mary Jo Foley speculates that the next version of the Windows Live Family Safety Center service is codenamed "Ohana."
Speaking of Microsoft, there's a new unpatched flaw in the Windows print spooler service. Exploit code is already public.
Beware of cracked activation keys for Windows Vista. It just might come with a nasty Trojan.
Remember YapBrowser, the rogue browser that was serving up child porn? Paperghost reports that the domain is up for sale, for an asking price of $10,000.
