<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:07:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Information   Security    News</title><description/><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>134</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-6427297910981778495</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-10T07:03:26.548+06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Easy CPE</category><title>Easy CPE: The last HOPE</title><atom:summary type='text'>"The last HOPE" talks in audio and video.</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/08/easy-cpe-last-hope.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-9082587163849939820</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-10T07:07:06.797+06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Easy CPE</category><title>Easy CPE: Troopers 08</title><atom:summary type='text'>23-24 April 2008, Munich - Troopers 08 - get skilled or get owned</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/07/easy-cpe-troopers-08.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-5203483951545209249</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-12T17:23:56.617+06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Easy CPE</category><title>Easy CPE : Supernova 2008</title><atom:summary type='text'>Mainly type B videos, but some type A.  From the Supernova 2008 conference</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/07/easy-cpe-supernova-2008.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-1486749488685236302</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-06T15:17:03.951+06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Easy CPE</category><title>Easy CPE : REcon</title><atom:summary type='text'>REcon is a reverse engineering conference, held in Montreal.   Videos from 2006</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/07/easy-cpe-recon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-8358188570234390108</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 09:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-23T18:04:55.278+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Easy CPE</category><title>Easy CPE: watching conference videos</title><atom:summary type='text'>Here are a list of web pages where you can watch information security talks and presentations and so earn CPEs that will help you renew your CISSP certification. Free and easy access.

24th Chaos Communication Congress. Torrents of mp4 and mkv files available at the botton of each talks page. Go for the mp4 as these are usually seeded.

Defcon 15 and earlier talks are available in mp4 file </atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/05/easy-cpe-watching-conference-videos.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-1482188739681206650</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 08:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-19T13:14:41.121+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>UPS</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Power</category><title>Online UPS Power!</title><atom:summary type='text'>Here are pictures of Xnet PP2100DC UPS in action. These are all from one location in Karachi. Click on the picture to get a bigger image. Sorry these images are not high quality.






</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/05/online-power.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-6013129089417055387</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-02T18:55:44.993+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hardware</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Virus</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>bits protection</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Worm</category><title>Hardware Anti-virus</title><atom:summary type='text'>Xnet OS Protector is an intelligent circuit card which protects PC system configuration and protect data on hard disk in simple and fast way. The installation and operation is simple and can be done in minutes without technical staff involvement. The form factor is a small PCI card.
The concept is simple. Instead of Blacklisting (ie keeping track of all the new viruses and their signatures) OS </atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/05/hardware-anti-virus.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-5877471540062827435</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-12T12:34:15.284+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>HOWTO</category><title>Howto: RAID1 on Mandriva</title><atom:summary type='text'>Setting up RAID1 on Mandriva 2008


1.Goal: Setup a system with two harddisks that contain identical data so that if
one harddisk crashes, the system survives.

2.The system should still be able to boot without manual intervention.

3.A mail should be send if one harddisk fails.

We chose only two harddisks also a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM must be connected to
be able to install the system.

Installation</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/04/howto-raid1-on-mandriva.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-547649517623857506</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-27T10:10:24.231+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Economic and Political Security</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>News Article</category><title>Document freedom : what is it and why is it important</title><atom:summary type='text'>Paper. Paper has been with us for thousands of years. With paper, once you learnt how to read a language, you could read any document.

We are now entering the age of electronics. This is a world where most new documents are electronic in form. You cannot read them directly, they are machine readable only and we need hardware and software to do so.

Because we are still at the beginning of this </atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/03/document-freedom-what-is-it-and-why-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-8487927602554640808</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-18T13:14:59.511+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hack</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Banking and Finance</category><title>National Bank of Pakistan refutes hacking / cyber crime allegations.</title><atom:summary type='text'>So, it was not 'hacking', but 'fraudulent withdrawals'. However the fact is that there is a limit of Rs20,000/- and that is all that a client should be able to withdraw in one day. The attack managed to get Rs20 million from accounts that had zero money in them.  Here is an image of the notice published in the papers.

</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/03/national-bank-of-pakistan-refutes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-6980917903579752369</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-16T13:15:13.455+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hack</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Banking and Finance</category><title>National Bank of Pakistan admits gang withdrew Rs20m in Multan</title><atom:summary type='text'>NBP security was bypassed by using other Banks ATM cards where the accounts had no balance.

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NBP admits gang withdrew Rs20m in Multan

By Sher Baz Khan


ISLAMABAD, March 15: The National Bank of Pakistan on Saturday said that some people had fraudulently withdrawn Rs20 million from its automated-teller machines (ATMs) in Multan, while the </atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/03/national-bank-of-pakistan-admits-gang.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-1481548569529781575</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-15T15:22:31.118+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hack</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Banking and Finance</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Insider</category><title>National Bank of Pakistan ATM network hacked</title><atom:summary type='text'>Looks like an inside job, with an employee subverting the security system of the ATMs.

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NBP suspends inter-bank ATM service after fraud - 



By Sher Baz Khan


ISLAMABAD, March 14: The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) on Friday unilaterally suspended its One-Link service with 14 other banks after finding out that a cyber gang had withdrawn </atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/03/national-bank-of-pakistan-atm-network.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-739850919593422434</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-23T14:08:47.048+05:00</atom:updated><title>Encrypted GSM Voice Calls &amp; SMS Messages Hacked</title><atom:summary type='text'>Black Hat researchers have engineered a way to easily and cheaply crack GSM's encryption


By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Senior Editor, Dark Reading

WASHINGTON -- BLACK HAT DC 2008 -- A pair of researchers has created a low-cost and simple hack to crack the encryption in GSM mobile phones and intercept voice conversations and SMS text messages -- within minutes.

David Hulton and a researcher who </atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/02/encrypted-gsm-voice-calls-sms-messages.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-2309312397371432562</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-22T11:48:02.015+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Insecurity</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>crypto</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hardware</category><title>Attacking Hard Disk Encryption</title><atom:summary type='text'>Once the attacker has access to your hardware it becomes very very difficult to protect your assets.

We show that disk encryption, the standard approach to protecting sensitive data on laptops, can be defeated by relatively simple methods. We demonstrate our methods by using them to defeat three popular disk encryption products: BitLocker, which comes with Windows Vista; FileVault, which comes </atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/02/attacking-hard-disk-encryption.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-8067774717251710026</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-19T15:13:17.989+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Insecurity</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>crypto</category><title>Fake Crypto</title><atom:summary type='text'>heise Security find that the Easy Nova Data Box PRO-25UE RFID hard drive case by German vendor Drecom sounds promising: hardware data encryption with 128-bit AES, access control via an RFID chip, but actually uses just a simple XOR.</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/02/fake-crypo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-9146571816699229552</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-15T14:57:30.114+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>VPN</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>News Article</category><title>VPN Tools</title><atom:summary type='text'>I found an interesting website all about VPNs over at vpntools.com. It has a lot of articles, but mostly at a basic, introductory level.</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2008/01/vpn-tools.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-1842218387309549464</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-11-21T11:10:58.519+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Amusement</category><title>Security and Usability</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2007/11/security-and-usability.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-2278390749651939414</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-11-21T10:52:35.690+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>crypto</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Password</category><title>Google as a password cracker</title><atom:summary type='text'>Having the MD5, the article discusses how to find the the original password. The solution is to use Google. This is using the big G as a Rainbow table.</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2007/11/google-as-password-cracker.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-8267952823498935935</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-10-20T14:52:34.290+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Amusement</category><title>Suspicious Behaviour</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2007/10/suspicious-behaviour.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-203687240150358216</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-10-13T11:38:48.535+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Amusement</category><title>SQL Injection Kiddie</title><atom:summary type='text'>


Exploits of a Mom. XKCD.</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2007/10/sql-injection-kiddie_13.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-609823867347922819</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-09-22T11:59:41.286+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>crypto</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Backdoor</category><title>Widespread DH Implementation Weakness: Conspiracy or Ignorance?</title><atom:summary type='text'>September 18th, 2007 by Adam Bozanich

While developing an implementation of IKE for our platform, I noticed an astonishing behavior in the servers I was testing against: Not a single IKE implementation, which included products from the biggest names in network infrastructure, were validating the Diffie-Hellman public keys that I sent. A consequence of this is that any deployment of these servers</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2007/09/widespread-dh-implementation-weakness.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-1821470159327626497</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-08-15T10:19:37.776+05:00</atom:updated><title>ITCN 2007 Pictures</title><atom:summary type='text'> Pakistan Federal Minister for Information Technology, Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari, takes a keen interest in Xnet Solutions network security products.


 A birds-eye view of the Xnet Stand














 The Xnet Marketing Team</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2007/08/itcn-2007-pictures_14.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-8094740018134364036</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-08-14T19:28:06.298+05:00</atom:updated><title>ITCN 2007 Pictures - Getting ready</title><atom:summary type='text'>



</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2007/08/itcn-2007-pictures.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-5993315687125651782</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-30T10:26:41.239+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Wireless</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Vulnerability</category><title>Cisco Multiple Products Wireless ARP Requests Denial of Service</title><atom:summary type='text'>Secunia Advisory:  SA26161    
Release Date:  2007-07-25 
Last Update:  2007-07-27 


Critical:  Moderately critical 
Impact:  DoS
Where:  From local network
Solution Status:  Partial Fix 


OS: Cisco 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controller
Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Integrated Wireless LAN Controllers


Software: Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Wireless Service Module (WiSM)


CVE reference: CVE-2007-</atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2007/07/cisco-multiple-products-wireless-arp.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5019903961354803156.post-505075985937474803</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-30T10:24:01.938+05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Vulnerability</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Anti-Virus</category><title>Panda Software AdminSecure Agent Heap Overflow Vulnerability</title><atom:summary type='text'>CVE ID:
CVE-2007-3026 

Affected Vendor:
Panda Software 

Affected Products:
Panda AdminSecure 2006 


Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Panda AdminSecure. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the AdminSecure agent which binds by default to TCP port </atom:summary><link>http://www.Xnet.com.pk/news/2007/07/panda-software-adminsecure-agent-heap.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Xnet Solutions)</author></item></channel></rss>