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Anatomy of a scare: Narrow Romney win in Ohio reveals his vulnerabilities
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Rick Santorum exposed the vulnerabilities of the GOP's fragile frontrunner,
along with his assets. Romney's chief assets — money, an advantage of
more than four-to-one, allowing him to pummel Santorum on statewide TV —
and strong support in populous ...
<http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/03/anatomy-of-a-scare-narrow-romney-win-in-ohio-reveals-his-vulnerabilities/>
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Google Chrome's winning streak fades at annual hacking contest
Ars Technica
By Dan Goodin | Published March 7, 2012 11:18 PM As day one of the annual
Pwn2Own hacker contest wound down on Wednesday, no browser suffered more
abuse than Google Chrome, which was felled by an attack exploiting a
previously unknown vulnerability in ...
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CanSecWest Pwnium: Google Chrome hacked with sandbox bypass
ZDNet (blog)
Glazunov scored a $60000 payday for the exploit, which targeted two
distinct zero-day vulnerabilities in the Chrome extension sub-system. The
cash prize was part of Google's new Pwnium hacker contest which is being
run this year as an alternative to ...
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/cansecwest-pwnium-google-chrome-hacked-with-sandbox-bypass/10563>
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Pwn2Own 2012: Google Chrome browser sandbox first to fall
ZDNet (blog)
VUPEN, the controversial company that sells vulnerabilities and exploits to
government customers, deliberately took aim at Chrome this year to send a
simple message: no software is unbreakable if hackers have enough
motivation to prepare and launch an ...
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/pwn2own-2012-google-chrome-browser-sandbox-first-to-fall/10588>
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Australian spies buying computer bugs: sources
Sydney Morning Herald
He says while the government won't admit it, buying vulnerabilities is an
obvious part of "gathering intelligence". Eran Feigenbaum, director of
security for Google Apps. Trading in vulnerabilities is a moot point in
technology circles.
<http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/australian-spies-buying-computer-bugs-sources-20120307-1ujlb.html>
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Charlie Miller skipping Pwn2Own as new rules change hacking game
ZDNet (blog)
When Pwn2Own kicks off at the CanSecWest security conference here, it will
resemble a capture-the-flag (CTF) style competition instead of the random
draw that allowed hackers to participate with ready-made vulnerabilities
and exploits.
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/charlie-miller-skipping-pwn2own-as-new-rules-change-hacking-game/10554>
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Councillors: roles, responsibilities and vulnerabilities
For Argyll
With the May local elections looming, it seemed an opportune moment to
consider the role of local councillors as people elected to represent a
local community but also required to fulfil their responsibility to the
wider authority area.
<http://forargyll.com/2012/03/councillors-roles-responsibilities-and-vulnerabilities/>
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Rogue AV Campaign Infects More Than 200000 Webpages
Dark Reading
"Usually in this type of mass injections; vulnerabilities or security
holes in certain versions and their accompanied infrastructure are abused
to get initial access to those websites," Sharf said. "Therefore after
this access is maintained to the ...
<http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability-management/167901026/security/news/232602207/rogue-av-campaign-infects-more-than-200-000-webpages.html>
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Rival hacking contests kick off today with $1.1M at stake
Computerworld
Google pledged to pay out as much as $1 million if several researchers
stepped forward with Chrome-only "zero-day," or previously unknown,
vulnerabilities and their exploits. "Pwnium" is a play on Chromium, the
name of the open-source project that ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224976/Rival_hacking_contests_kick_off_today_with_1.1M_at_stake?taxonomyId=17>
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