SF 'bringing bug device to talks'
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Sinn Fein says its delegation will bring the listening device found in its HQ to Leeds Castle in Kent.
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A Chinese hacker arrested just days ago will be allowed to release a fix for the worm that he helped write. But a security researcher questioned the wisdom of the move.
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The EU judge in the case against Microsoft calls for an unexpected closed-door meeting. Also: Developing world expected to help revive tech sector....  Finland faces a loss of 3G phones.... and more.
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(InfoWorld) - One of the hackers who demonstrated exploit code for a vulnerability in the way the Firefox browser handles Javascript at a hacker conference in San Diego admitted Tuesday that the presentation was meant to be a joke, the chief of security for Mozilla has said. Mozilla security researchers spent most of Sunday and Monday scrambling to determine if exploit code revealed during a presentation by hackers Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi at Toorcon over the weekend could allow someone to execute malicious code through a memory corruption attack on Firefox. However, Window Snyder, who leads Mozilla's security team, said Spiegelmock admitted to the company that the presentation was meant to be humorous, and he and Wbeelsoi had not actually achieved remote execution with the exploit code demonstrated at the show. "At best, in some cases it will crash only the client," Snyder said Tuesday. "That's all we've been able to verify at this point." Spiegelmock, who works for Six Apart Ltd., confirmed as much in his LiveJournal blog, in which he includes a link to a statement he made that is posted on Snyder's Mozilla blog. (http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/10/02/update-possible-vulnerability-reported-at-toorcon/) "The main purpose of our talk was to be humorous," according to the statement. "As part of our talk we mentioned that there was a previously known Firefox vulnerability that could result in a stack overflow ending up in remote code execution. However, the code we presented did not in fact do this, and I personally have not gotten it to result in code execution, nor do I know of anyone who has." During the presentation, the hackers also said they knew of 30 other vulnerabilities in Firefox but this, too, was a joke, Snyder said Tuesday. To hear Six Apart spokeswoman Jane Anderson tell it, the Toorcon presentation was a joke invented by two kids barely out of their teens who didn't understand the ramifications of their actions. "It was all a parody," she said. Anderson added that Spiegelmock was not representing Six Apart at the show, and the company spent most of Sunday on the phone with Mozilla putting out fires and cooperating with the company to get to the bottom of the matter. To make matters more embarrassing for Six Apart, the company's earliest investor, Joi Ito, is on Mozilla's board of directors. Anderson added that Spiegelmock will not be terminated for his actions. "We all make mistakes," she said. Snyder and the Mozilla team also are being good sports about the ordeal. "Of course, we always prefer that security researchers report vulnerabilities to us so we can create a patch before customers are put at risk," she said. "But at this point he's been very cooperative and we're pleased he's chosen to work with us." Still, Snyder said, "I know people who were working really hard here on Sunday probably have other things they'd rather be doing."
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Sinn Fein, political ally of the IRA, has found a bugging device at offices in Northern Ireland used by leader Gerry Adams, party sources say.
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Although Skype today plugged another critical flaw in its software, vulnerability researcher Aviv Raff said that another problem, this one in the SkypeFind feature, can be used to inject attack script into systems.
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As part of its new move to open its network to new devices, company is inviting gadget developers to swap ideas at a two-day conference this March in New York City.
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One of the speakers at a Toorcon security conference session last weekend has admitted that claims he and an accomplice made regarding an "unfixable" flaw in Firefox, and a video of the two purportedly exploiting this flaw, were a not-so-elaborate hoax.
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Two aides to Mayor John F. Street said his staff was tipped off last fall about an FBI bug that had been placed in his office, contradicting earlier statements by the city's top police official and mayoral advisers who said they knew nothing about the listening device before it was found.
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Sinn Fein has put on display another bug it claims was found in one of its headquarters in west Belfast.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Sinn Fein, political  ally of the Irish Republican Army, has found a bugging device  at offices in Northern Ireland used by leader Gerry Adams,  party sources said Tuesday.
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Updated: The company says someone &quot;has recently misappropriated and disseminated through Web sites confidential information about an unreleased Apple product.
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So far talks between the two revolve around technology and potential business models such as advertising-sponsored services, one of the sources said.
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Bugging carried out 'nationwide' The furore over police bugging operations conducted in prison visiting rooms has widened somewhat, with allegations that significant numbers of conversations between prisoners and their legal representatives may have been taped. Angry lawyers are speculating that this could invalidate an unknown number of convictions and see dangerous criminals set free.â¦
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A less-than-futuristic surveillance system in San Francisco.
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Britain's Justice Secretary Jack Straw is being asked to reveal how much ministers know about the extent of bugging in jails after a newspaper alleged Saturday that lawyers were being "routinely bugged".
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A sophisticated bugging device which Sinn Fein said it had uncovered in one of its offices in the heart of republican West Belfast is to be presented to Prime Tony Blair at the Leeds