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Comment Earlier Submission (Score 2) 169

The better story about this vulnerability is the fact that the entire delivery of the malware (from a compromised US foreign policy think tank, no less), was limited to people with the ability to view English (American English), Russian, Japanese and traditional Chinese characters. It's supected of being a 'watering hole' attack. Read more from the earlier submission which didn't include bullshit link bait for advertising dollars.

Comment Typos (Sorry) (Score 1) 2

The security firm FireEye is reporting that a 0Day was used in this attack, & provides some great details on the metadata left by the attacker(s).

FireEye also reports the malware as targeting "...English (U.S.), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Japanese, Korean, or Russian," contrary to the Free Beacon's information that the attack was exclusively targeting machines with support for Chinese characters.

Comment Some More Info... (Score 1) 2

that a 0Day was used in this attack, & provides some great details on the metadata left by the attacker(s).

FireEye also reports the malware as targeting "...English (U.S.), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Japanese, Korean, or Russian," contrary to the Free Beacon's information that the attack was exclusively targeting machines with support for Chinese characters.
Security

Submission + - Google security engineer issues Sophos warning (cso.com.au)

angry tapir writes: "Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy discovered several flaws in Sophos antivirus and says the product should be kept away from high value information systems unless the company can avoid easy mistakes and issue patches faster. Ormandy has released a scathing 30-page analysis (PDF) “Sophail: Applied attacks against Sophos Antivirus”, in which he details several flaws “caused by poor development practices and coding standards”, topped off by the company’s sluggishly response to the warning he had working exploits for those flaws. One of the exploits Ormandy details is for a flaw in Sophos‘ on-access scanner, which could be used to unleash a worm on a network simply by targeting a company receiving an attack email via Outlook. Although the example he provided was on a Mac, the “wormable, pre-authentication, zero-interaction, remote root” affected all platforms running Sophos. (Ormandy released the paper as an independent researcher, not in his role as a Google employee.)"
Science

Submission + - Carbon clock gets reset (nature.com)

ananyo writes: "Climate records from a Japanese lake are set to improve the accuracy of carbon dating, which could help to shed light on archaeological mysteries such as why Neanderthals became extinct.
Carbon dating is used to work out the age of organic material. But the technique assumes that the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere was constant — any variation would speed up or slow down the clock. Since the 1960s, scientists have started accounting for the variations by calibrating the clock against the known ages of tree rings. The problem is that tree rings provide a direct record that only goes as far back as about 14,000 years.
Now, using sediment from bed of Lake Suigetsu, west of Tokyo, researchers have pushed the calibration limit back much further. Two distinct sediment layers have formed in the lake every summer and winter over tens of thousands of years. The researchers collected roughly 70-metre core samples from the lake and painstakingly counted the layers to come up with a direct record stretching back 52,000 years.
The recalibrated clock could help to narrow the window of key events in human history. Take the extinction of Neanderthals, which occurred in western Europe less than 30,000 years ago. Archaeologists disagree over the effects changing climate and competition from recently arriving humans had on the Neanderthals' demise. The more accurate carbon clock should yield better dates for any overlap of humans and Neanderthals, as well as for determining how climate changes influenced the extinction of Neanderthals."

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