Thursday, February 16, 2012

Travelling out of the country?

0-day email attacks

A rare universal attack campaign aimed at taking over Webmail accounts via Flash:

A dangerous zero-day Flash attack revealed yesterday by Adobe patched along with other flaws in the application is the dreaded and relatively rare universal cross-site scripting threat. The vulnerability was spotted being exploited in the wild in targeted, email-based attacks.

"Universal XSSes are rare enough, but a zero-day floating around targeted attacks: wow," says Jeremiah Grossman, CTO for WhiteHat Security.

Ryan Barnett, senior security researcher for Trustwave, says it sounds a like a cyberespionage-type attack trying to remain under the radar.

Adobe's security update affects vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris; Adobe Flash Player 11.1.112.61 and earlier versions for Android 4.x; and Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.5 and earlier versions for Android 3.x and 2.x. If exploited, the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to crash and take over the victim's machine.

Posted via email from Don Peer

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Gathering the best info

I've been reading Music Radar for several weeks now and find it totally chock-full of great information for musicians. Everything from recording your music to improving your technique. The latest one I read is my favorite so far - "50 steps to better electric guitar tone". Even though I'm not a guitar player, per se, this article has so many great tips in it that I've copied down every one of them and intend to pass them out to musicians that I play with. After all, if they sound better the whole group will sound better!

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/50-steps-to-better-electric-guitar-tone-528489#!1