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HP's Free Adobe Flash Vulnerability Scanner
Catalyst writes "SWFScan is a free Flash security tool (download here), released by HP Software, which decompiles all versions of Flash and scans them for over 60 security vulnerabilities. The scan detects things like XSS, SQL inside of the Flash app, hard-coded authentication credentials, weak encryption, insecure function calls, cross-domain privilege escalation, and violations of Adobe's security recommendations. There is also this video explaining a real, and amusing, attack against a Flash app. These issues are fairly widespread, with over 35% of SWF applications violating Adobe security advice."
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The adaptive security built into Ninnle Linux already provides protection against this form of attack.
Walter Sartory was a brilliant but mentally ill 73 year old retired mathematician living quietly in a small Kentucky town near Cincinnati. He was retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and was an expert on centrifuges, holding two patents related to them. He was also a paranoid schizophrenic who was uncomfortable around others and suspicious of strangers. But not suspicious enough, it seems. Cops say that two blacks, 47 year old Willa Blanc and her 27 year old son Louis Wilkinson befriended Sartory, and then kidnapped him. They duct taped him to a chair in Blanc's basement, drugged and starved him until he signed over power of attorney to them for his bank account. After transferring some $200,000 of Sartory's money to themselves, they shot him in the head and threw his body in a trash can. They then drove to Indiana and paid some friends $1000 to help them burn and bury his corpse.
If you live outside the Cincinnati area, this is probably the first you're hearing about this horrific murder. If the races were reversed, it's all the national media would be talking about. But the killers are black, and the victim was an old white man, so it's not news.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090321/NEWS0103/303210049
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