Robert Lemos

A flaw in the way that several security programs and systems utilities detect system changes can allow spyware to run surreptitiously, renewing worries about stealthier attack code.
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Law enforcement arrested two men–one living in Turkey and the other in Morocco–in connection with the release of the recent Zotob worm.
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Three Chinese researchers refine an attack on the encryption standard used to digitally sign documents, leaving cryptographers to debate whether the Secure Hash Algorithm needs to be mothballed more quickly.
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A dozen different worms based on bot software have started attacking already-compromised Windows 2000 systems with the aim of creating a lasting bot net, security experts warn. Several companies, such as CNN and the New York Times, have been infected because they failed to patch in time.
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Dubbed Zotob, the worm infects computers using a flaw in the Windows operating system’s Plug-and-Play functionality, but security experts believe that the attack won’t be as significant as previous epidemics.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a government-funded database of flaws. Will it bring more competition among vulnerability databases or just be a federally funded clone?
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The software giant continues its honeymonkey research, finding more than 750 exploits for Windows computers, including an attack using a vulnerability that had not been publicly disclosed.
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At the DEF CON conference, the latest version of the weekend-long Capture the Flag game stresses code auditing as a measure of hacking skills, but also requires participants to think about balancing attack and defense as well as physical security.
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