Malicious Microprocessor Opens New Doors for Attack

 ( 232 days 16 hours ago)

LinuxSecurity.com: For years, hackers have focused on finding bugs in computer software that give them unauthorized access to computer systems, but now there's another way to break in: Hack the microprocessor.
On Tuesday, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated how they altered a computer chip to grant attackers back-door access to a computer. It would take a lot of work to make this attack succeed in the real world, but it would be virtually undetectable.

Leading Petroleum Company Improves Real-time Information Sharing with Oil Rigs via Cisco Technology

 ( 232 days 17 hours ago)

CAIRO, Egypt, April 16, 2008 - Cisco announced today that Petrobel (The Belayim Petroleum Company), has implemented a Cisco ® Unified Communications solution to link its headquarters and the oil rigs, facilitating video and other communications channels between the drilling crews and the headquarters' team. This collaborative technology has resulted in cost savings by increasing productivity, decreasing travel and improving teamwork. In the first phase of Petrobel's i-Rig ...

Breaking CAPTCHA

 ( 233 days 1 hour ago)

LinuxSecurity.com: Perhaps someday it will be considered discrimination against a sentient, but these days a way to distinguish between programs and humans is required for many web-based applications. Keeping spambots from posting comments in weblogs or other bots from signing up for a web service are two of the most common applications for separating humans and bots. As has often been the case in the past, though, when the stakes are high enough, attackers will find ways to circumvent barriers like this. How secure to you think Captcha on you website is? Do you think it can be improved? This article goes into detail on some of the security issues with Captcha technologies.