Previous Gnews

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Previous Gnews
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Patch Tuesday

• Next Week Yo!

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Holes / Patches

• Java Multiple advisories and updates
• Openssl DoS in ASN1_STRING_print_ex()
• cisco ios DoS in Cisco Tunneling Control Protocol
  (cTCP)
• ibm activex code execution in GetXMLValue()
• Google docs, Ade Barkah reports 3 issues
• powerpoint 0-day

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Hacking

• BBC botnet
• malware as a service
• psyb0t - home routing gear
• conficker.c apr 1 activation
• core demos, bios rootkit (survives wiping)
• dimes for bugs
• Dino declares No more free bugs
• summer of code starting to spin up

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Corp. Hell

• PHD student finds bug in collider hardware

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Papers

• DOJ summar report on stalkers

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Film / Music

• piratebay on facebook

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WTF
Facebook wins restraining order against
spammers MS opensource (from cansec) Live Labs
WebSandbox Colbert gets ISS module name
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Legal
Miss bans red light cameras
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CON Events

• Source - need better sec metrics
• CanSecWest
• bios attack -
• Pwn2Own -
• Charlie Miller (again) with another safari blast
• Nils with IE8 blast, Safari, and Firefox
• little interest in the mobiles.
• ucon, brazil
• black hat 2008 videos up

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• Hack In The Box, 20-23 Apr / Dubai
• http//conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2009dubai/
• ToorCon Seattle, 18 20 Apr / Seattle
• http//seattle.toorcon.org/2008/about.php
• Trooper 08, 23 24 Apr / Munich
• http//www.troopers08.org/content/
• Interop, 27 Apr - 2 May / Las Vegas NV
• http//www.interop.com/lasvegas/
• Layerone, 17 18 May / Pasadena CA
• http//layerone.info
• DallasCon 2008, TBD / Dallas , TX
• http//www.dallascon.com
• MS BlueHat Spring 2008, May 2 2008 / Redmond WA

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