Friday, 21 September 2012

Microsoft Panics over Zero-day Flaw and Patches it!

A patch has been released from Microsoft which is a 26.9MB patch which will fix the five vulnerabilities, and the zero day flaw that is cracking Windows systems the most common versions of Internet Explorer. The patch will fix all the problems that the system has been having which was used by hackers to go against some companies.

Microsoft Security Response Center which is the official corporate security response blog posted ''Today we released Security Update MS12-063 to address limited attacks against a small number of computers through a vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 9 and earlier. The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to take any action because protections will be downloaded and installed automatically. For those manually updating, we encourage you to apply this update as quickly as possible. In addition to addressing the issue described in Security Advisory 2757760, MS12-063 also resolves four privately disclosed vulnerabilities that are currently not being exploited''

It was rated as critical or moderate risk it all depends on which browser and operating system you are running, but would allow full remote code execution on systems running IE 7,8 and 9 running Adobe Flash on fully-patched Windows XP, Vista and 7 machines, using Malware embedded on the web page. 

This whole mess was discovered by a security researcher Eric Romang. But he says ''Zero-Day Season Is Really Not Over Yet'' he posted on ''Wordpress'' saying ''I can confirm, the zero-day season is really not over yet. Less than three weeks after the discovery of the Java SE7 0day, aka CVE-2012-4681, potentially used by the Nitro gang in targeted attacks, a potential Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 zero-day is actually exploited in the wild''. He also posted ''
  • I wasn’t a target of the 0day, I tested it on my lab. This misunderstanding has been introduced by Reuters in their press release.
  • I did these researches on my personal time, and these researches are not linked with my professional activities. This misunderstanding has been introduced by Reuters in their press release.
  • I don’t pin the responsibility on the Nitro gang, if you read my blog post, you will see that I found coincidences.
  • I don’t know the timeline of the vulnerability, including when it was discovered and how long it has been exploited'' 
Eric Romang also posted images and a video of the Zero day flaw. (For more about Eric Romang Wordpress Blog click here)

 Microsoft reputation looks to go downhill for now. But can it make a come back with the new patch?

This happened to Flash Player last mouth. (Zero-day Flaw)




Friday, 14 September 2012

AntiSec leaks credit cards as revenge for arresting Anonymous spokesman

AntiSec have been publishing credit-card details of thirteen US government officials. This was because Barrett Brown was arrested for his rant against a named FBI agent. The arrest of Barrett Brown was posted online on YouTube by Brown's friends who were at the time talking to him by a live video chat website when the police burst into Brown's room.

Why? Well Barrett Brown is accused of making threats to a federal agent online. The thirteen minute video which is him taking about the process of weaning himself off on opiates  which is a drug with morphine like effects. Also Brown talks of his paranoia after being targeted by the Mexican crime syndicate Los Zetas. So is that it? No... He begins to talk about an FBI agent (Agent Robert Smith)
and his family which he wants to ''mess there life's up''.

Now AntiSec have revealed online the thirteen credit cards records along with names, addresses and a mix of US government and US Navy's email addresses. The leaked information states had an notice attached to them. It said: "This data could be potentially and underteminatedly [sic] false as FBI could potentially claim, they also would be a potentially different set than those we released from Stratfor and they could just potentially bring an underterminate [sic] amount of lulz. but what the hell, you are free to try them if u want. spend a lot!!!! send flowers to Barrett!!!"

Barrett Brown may face sentencing up to 18 months or less in prison for threatening an FBI agent.

Barrett Brown, aged 31 years old.
The video which the police arrested Barrett Brown for. 






Wednesday, 5 September 2012

BoneyHead Facebook Group Launched

It's been four years since I joined YouTube and now I think it's the best time to set up my Facebook Fan page. It's already got fifteen ''Likes'' and I hope to get more soon this week. The reason it's been set up is so fans of my channel can keep up too date with my video's and livestream events. Any videos I like on YouTube will be posted on the Facebook Page as well.

BitTorrent users being logged

Have you used an BitTorrent before to download music or movies? If so there a chance in under three hours you will be logged onto a ''blacklist'' by a monitoring firm. But why is this happing? Well... copyright holders hope to use the date to crack down on illegal downloads. But as you can tell not everyone is please about the news.

A part from the fact that your being logged in everytime and that you have no privacy. The logging can not tell if your a hardcore illegal downloader or just a frist time illegal downloader. And you don't get any brownie points for downloading something that came out during the 70's. The fact that you download something for free is illegal. And now with the help of this ''blacklist'' you will be found out.

Most copyright owners in Europe and the USA are using IP addresses and other types of data to use in court. But most lawyers say the data will be useless as there still can't tell address pinpoints the internet connection used for downloading the illegal contect. Many fear that soon companys will be monitoring there internet without a court order. But for now it's not the case. Not now it is... unlike the BitTorrent users being logged.



Sunday, 2 September 2012

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been arrested

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been arrested and is being held after an warrant was issued against him a few mouths ago. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg failed to arrive at court for his one-year jail term for copyright violations.

Kirth Chantharith, Cambodia's police spokesman said ''The arrest was made at the request of the Swedish government for a crimes to information technology. We don't have an extradition treaty with Sweden but we'll look into our laws and see how we can handle this case''

The owners of the site have been ordered to pay nearly $7m (£4m) for copyright infringement. Pirate Bay was once shut down in sweden six years ago but came back online. This year it was also shut down by hackers which is still unknown who did it.

So what is the Pirate Bay? Pirate Bay is a file-sharing website founded back in 2003. It has over five million registered users and since May 2012 hosts over four million torrents.

The Pirate Bay slogan ''The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site''

Saturday, 1 September 2012

New Logo for my YouTube Channel

This year has been a big change for my YouTube channel. So far I've been working with my friend to make a new background for my channel. The background is taking a long time to make but is in good progress. But the logo has been finished. I'm still using the biohazard sign but this time I have my BH95 on top. Soon it's going to be the Anniversary of my frist YouTube channel and also around the same time when my frist YouTube channel was removed because of copyright infringement. And the second account was made in the same mouth (October 15th 2009).

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