The design of the Microsoft's Windows Azure Guest Agent could let hackers steal plaintext administrator passwords from target machines, researchers at Guardicore reported this week. If abused, the flaw could enable a cross-platform attack affecting every machine type Azure provides.
Adrian Lamo, the hacker turned government ally has died, aged 37.
With the cause of death, not yet known, or at least not yet released, and his death classified as non-suspicious, we still have cause to speculate or at least reflect on how history (google history, of course) can and will view Adrian Lamo, the whistleblowers' whistleblower.
With the latest edition of Newsweek highlighting a fresh set of high scale, North Korean cyber-attacks on banks, we truly feel it's time to give a run-down of which Super Cyber Criminals have been pushing all our buttons recently.
If you missed part one The Truth Behind Social Engineering 1/3 you are going to want to read it before reading this one. I started writing about social engineering and below is part II.
