Later this week, I’ll be presenting at the Black Hat DC Briefings on weaknesses in the security of live virtual machine migration as implemented by popular vendors such as VMware and Xen. I thought I’d provide a teaser in advance of my presentation detailing some of the topics that will be discussed.
Some random technical notes on the T-Mobile WiFi Hotspots offered at locations such as Starbucks. Since I spend a fair amount of time at the 24-hour Starbucks on Washtenaw, I often end up playing around with the Cisco WAP instead of actually doing work.
Aimject facilitates man-in-the-middle attacks against AOL Instant Messenger’s OSCAR protocol via a simple GTK interface. This 1.0 release brings Aimject functionality to the masses, being available for Linux, BSD, OS X, and Win32 platforms.
Mozilla’s auto-update system is a feature recently added to Firefox and Thunderbird that promises to bring prompt security updates to users without manual interaction. Unfortunately, this feature contains a vulnerability allowing attackers to hijack the update process and deliver malicious updates, resulting in the victim’s host being compromised.
Honeyd is a low-interaction honeypot developed by Niels Provos designed to emulate services and personalities of virtual hosts and networks. As honeypot deployments must remain undetected to maintain their value, the ability of an attacker to effectively and remotely fingerprint Honeyd is a serious issue.
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