Stories about: TippingPoint

Mozilla has downplayed a threat posed by the first vulnerability reported for Firefox 3.0, telling users that the risk is "minimal."

Only hours after Mozilla launched the final of Firefox 3.0, a researcher sold a critical vulnerability in the browser to TippingPoint's bug bounty program, the security company acknowledged Wedesday.

A group of security researchers Wednesday said they have infiltrated one of the world's biggest botnets and can snatch control of compromised machines from the hackers.

The black market for software vulnerabilities is booming, with bugs regularly being sold for thousands of dollars a piece online. And one of the only ways to reduce this steady stream of hacks, according to Geekonomics author and IT security pro David Rice, is for software companies to simply write better code.

Threats against browsers are getting more sophisticated and branching out into such exotic areas as gaming, experts told attendees at RSA Conference 2008.

Security researchers at Adobe Systems claimed that they knew of a Flash bug before it was used to crack a Windows Vista laptop last week in the "PWN To OWN" hacker challenge.

Shane Macaulay's attempt to sell a hacked laptop complete with Windows Vista attack code did not last long.

People shouldn't read anything into the fact that of the three laptops set up for last week's "PWN To OWN" hack challenge, the only one left standing was running Linux, said the security expert who oversaw the contest.

The security researcher who walked away with US$10,000 last week by hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes said he chose to attack Apple's operating system for one simple reason.

The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.

It's the most anticipated matchup in the hacker world: Linux versus Mac OS X versus Vista. Who will get hacked first?