Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 SP1 released

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1 (14.1.0) fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security.

It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. For detailed information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site.

Applies to:

• Office 2011
• Office 2011 Home and Business Edition
• Word 2011
• Excel 2011
• PowerPoint 2011
• Outlook 2011
• Communicator 2011
• Office for Mac Standard 2011 Edition
• Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Student 2011
• Microsoft Office for Mac Academic 2011.

ESET NOD32 releases Antivirus for Linux 4 !

ESET announced the availability of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition for Linux Desktop and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux.
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux offers protection against cross-platform and emerging threats, enhancing the security of Linux platforms. The scanning engine automatically detects and cleans malicious code, including threats designed for Windows and Mac based systems.

Malaysiakini – Malaysia’s Most Popular News Website Shutdown’s after cyber attack !

It has been reported that Malaysia’s most popular news website Malaysiakini (http://www.malaysiakini.com) has been hit by cyber attack from 11 AM afternoon shutting the website down. The attack created a stir when the website stopped working just before the Sarawak election, making the website inaccessible to the readers. The attack has been diagnosed as Denial-of-service attack which is considered to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Denial-of-service attacks are considered violations of the IAB’s Internet proper use policy, and also violate the acceptable use policies of virtually all Internet service providers. They also commonly constitute violations of the laws of individual nations.

According to the technical team, the cyber attack has resulted in  swarming the Malaysiakini servers to the point that they are unable to cope with the massive traffic. Highlighting the attack both the data centers TM Brickfields and Jaring have also been affected.

French Hacker Arrested After Bragging on TV !

The hacker appeared on the France 2 television programme “Complément d’enquête” (Further investigation) where he claimed to have hacked into computers belonging to the French Army and Thales Group, an IT contractor for the aerospace, defense and security industries.
After the programme aired, the company filed a complaint, claiming the hacker stole confidential information from its internal network.
The man, identified in only as Carl, was arrested on April 7 in Paris. When inspecting his computer, police found the details of hundreds of credit cards and bank accounts.
The hacker admitted selling the information on underground websites, as well as using them to make fraudulent purchases for himself and others.

BackTrack 5 will also be for Motorola Xoom

As of now, offensive-security have got a modified version of an Ubuntu 10.04 ARM image, chrooted on a Motorola Xoom. The tablet is running a modified, overclockable kernel (from 1.0 to 1.5 GHz). The chrooted BackTrack environment is running a VNC server, from which you can connect from the tablet itself. When run locally from the Xoom tablet, the VNC session does not lag, and the touch keyboard and touchscreen are very workable.

As expected from a chrooted environment, offensive-security are not using any custom drivers (for now), and injection and other related wireless attacks are NOT possible. Here’s a few screenshots we managed to scrounge from our dev box:

BackTrack on Motorola Xoom Screen 1

BackTrack on Motorola Xoom Screen 2

BackTrack on Motorola Xoom Screen 3

BackTrack on Motorola Xoom Screen 4

BackTrack on Motorola Xoom Screen 5

BackTrack on Motorola Xoom Screen 6

offensive-security hope to release a dev version of this image in a couple of weeks for other Xoom owners to play with. We’ll keep you posted !

Tell us how you did it, Pakistan court to hackers !

Tell us how you did it, Pakistan court to hackers !

Hackers would be granted bail if they taught judges how to do the job, Pakistan's Supreme Court said in a lighter vein as it heard the bail plea of two teenagers who had broken into the Supreme Court website last year. The Supreme Court then granted bail to the two teenagers who are accused of hacking its official website and placing derogatory material about judiciary and the chief justice on it, Dawn reported Tuesday.
The bench, comprising Justices Asif Saeed Khan Khosa and Amir Hani Muslim, was headed by Justice Javed Iqbal.

The judges said the hackers had done a "brilliant job".

Their counsel Iftikhar Hussain Gilani promptly said they had not hacked the site.

To which, the judges asked Gilani why he was not ready to accept praise for the hackers.

They then said in a lighter vein they would grant bail on the condition that the accused taught them how to do such a job.

The judges, however, observed that it was not just the issue of hacking, the hackers had also deprived the people and visitors to the website of general information and information regarding fixation of cases.

They also observed that highly objectionable material had been placed on the website.

Gilani claimed the site had not been hacked by the teenagers but by some Indians.

Wireshark 1.5.1 Development Release !

Wireshark 1.5.1 has been released. Installers for Windows, OS X, and source code are now available.

New and Updated Features

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since version 1.4: