IM Photos Could Turn Nasty
News According to security company WhiteHat UK, hackers can use an exploit in JPEGs, which enables them to embed malicious code into profile photos on instant messenger. Potentially, the photos that are sent with instant messenger could be used with the...
[October 19, 2004, 16:10]
Court Case Shines Light On Security Ethics
News It's about self-gratification for researchers," said Jason Hart, head of security for Whitehat UK. This is a controversial subject," said Richard Starnes, president of the Information Systems Security Association UK.
[January 13, 2005, 12:45]
Script Kiddies Learn Grown-up Hacking Techniques
News According to Jason Hart, head of security for Whitehat UK, SQL injections have become common among this group. SQL injection hacking techniques are starting to be used by script kiddies -- inexperienced hackers with limited technical skills -- who...
[January 13, 2005, 14:10]
Hackers Can Launch Attacks Over IM
News Combining the open-source tool nmap -- a program that discovers devices on a network -- with an IM bot, hackers can infiltrate, steal information and carry out denial-of-service attacks on networks, says the director of security for Whitehat UK...
[October 11, 2004, 15:05]
Hackers Use Google To Access Photocopiers
News You don't have to be a genius to do this," said Jason Hart, security director at Whitehat UK. Hackers are using search engines to watch what people photocopy. Using Google hacks -- requests typed into the search engine that bring up cached...
[September 24, 2004, 15:50]
War Of The Worlds Web Site Hacked
News That is embarrassing for them," said Jason Hart, director of security for WhiteHat UK. A Brazilian hacker has defaced the Web site of Steven Spielberg's film version of HG Wells' novel War of the Worlds, which is set to be released in cinemas this...
[February 14, 2005, 14:10]
Instant Messaging Could Land Bosses In Jail
News People use IM as a way of getting stuff in and out of the business, bypassing the security infrastructure," said Jason Hart, security director for Whitehat UK. UK companies are fretting that employees using IM applications could be breaking...
[October 15, 2004, 13:55]
We All Live In A Windows Submarine...
News Middleware could be anything -- it could be a firewall or an element of the software, and that's only as secure as it's configured," said director of security for Whitehat UK Jason Hart. The British government is defending its decision to implement...
[October 25, 2004, 14:20]
PDF Threat Worse Than First Thought
News Now it has been discovered that miscreants could exploit the problem to access all information on a victim's hard disk drive, said web security specialists at WhiteHat Security and SPI Dynamics. The security problem exists because the web browser...
[January 5, 2007, 7:24]
Another 'Nasa Hacker' Faces Extradition
News The indictment charges Victor Faur, 26, of Arad, Romania, with leading a hacking group called the "WhiteHat Team," according to a statement from the US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. No charges have been filed against any other suspected members...
[December 4, 2006, 9:25]
Google Flaw Provides Phishing Hook
News This particular vulnerability is clever because of the encoding hack," said Jeremiah Grossman, chief technology officer at WhiteHat Security, which specialises in web application flaws and protection.
[November 28, 2006, 8:10]
JavaScript Attack Maps Secure Networks
News Your browser can be used to hack internal networks," said Jeremiah Grossman the chief technology officer at Web application security company WhiteHat Security. Both SPI Dynamics and WhiteHat Security came up with the JavaScript-based network...
[July 31, 2006, 9:00]
Bug In New Browser Embarrasses Netscape
News The fault, discovered by researchers at the independent security site Whitehat.com , overloads the browser with random nonsense. A fault in Netscape Communicator 4.6.1 and 4.7 for Windows means the browser can be automatically crashed by a static...
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