Thursday April 12, 2012  

EDITOR'S NOTE

An exploit has been discovered in popular wireless Linux manager WICD that allows an attacker to spawn a root shell on a target machine. The privileged escalation exploit affects the latest versions of WICD (pronounced wicked) and was successfully tested on a handful of Linux distributions.

- Darren

BREAKING NEWS

Wicked exploit found in Linux WiFi

By Darren Pauli | April 12, 2012

Anonymous student hacker finds holes in WICD tool.

Malware shipped on HP switches

By SC Australia Staff | April 12, 2012

Dirty flash drives could infect computers.

Android concept app siphons sensitive data

By Darren Pauli | April 11, 2012

Application bypasses permissions to steal SD and app data.

BlackBerry most secure enterprise OS

By SC Staff | April 12, 2012

Windows Phone "reasonably robust".

Sluggish Apple strikes at Flashback

By Marcos Colon | April 12, 2012

Flashback removal tool planned as malware storm subsides.

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