Larry Osterman's WebLogConfessions of an Old FogeyThis is the way the world (wide web) ends...- April 16, 2008 Robert Hensing linked to a post by Thomas Ptacek over on the Matasano Chargen blog. Thomas (who is both a good hacker AND a good writer) has a writeup of a game-over vulnerability that was just published by Mark Dowd over at IBM's ISS X-Force that affects Flash. For those that dont speak hacker-speak, in this case, a game-over vulnerability is one that can be easily weaponized (his techniques appear to be reliable and can be combined to run an arbitrary payload). As an added bonus, because its..http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2008/04/16/this-is-the-way-the-world-wide-web-... Somehow I don't think I'm going to see this story on slashdot any time soon :)- April 8, 2008 Michael Howard sent the following news article to one of our internal DL's this morning. For some reason, I don't think it's going to hit the front page of Slashdot any time soon: Serving as the latest reminder of that fact is Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, which recently disclosed that Social Security numbers and other personal data belonging to more than 60,000 students, former students and employees may have been compromised by multiple intrusions into its main ERP...http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2008/04/08/somehow-i-don-t-think-i-m-going-to-... The Overlake Chamber Choir goes to Verona.- April 1, 2008 Daniel just returned from a 10 day trip to Italy where his school chamber choir performed at the 2008 Choir International Festival in Verona. One of the Choir parents just sent out an email pointing to two clips of the choir performing: Dravidian Dithyr: Wanting Memories (they cut off the beginning and the end of the song): It's cool to see the choir on the web.http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2008/04/01/the-overlake-chamber-choir-goes-to-... Somehow I managed to do another Channel 9 video and I didn't even know it!- April 1, 2008 Dan Fernandez over on the Channel 9 team just let me know that one of my earlier videos was featured in their new Video Spam Filter intro. It's weird - I hadn't realized how much I swore. Go figure that one out :).http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2008/04/01/somehow-i-managed-to-do-another-cha... |