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Posted on 08.04.07 by templeton @ 4:40 pm
Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to confess to a felony. When DEFCON staff announced the “spot the undercover reporter” game and told the… Filed under: Bad Idea and Security Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 07.30.06 by templeton @ 3:37 am
The federal government wants to be able to know everything you do, but they don’t want anyone to know about their actions. They are willing to argue both sides of a case to prevent citizens and states from finding out what AT&T has been doing in those secret rooms.
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Posted on 07.30.06 by templeton @ 3:37 am
“We picked two among the top social networking sites with a reported combined user base of 80 million. Within half an hour we had discovered over half a dozen potentially “wormable” XSS vulnerabilities in each site! We stopped looking after finding half a dozen” Filed under: Security Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 07.27.06 by templeton @ 9:40 pm
Two students each face up to a year in jail for a prank that involved hacking into a professor’s computer, giving grades to other students and sending pizza, magazine subscriptions and CDs to the professor’s home.Lena Chen, 20, and Jennifer Ngan, 19, face misdemeanor charges of illegally accessing computers. Filed under: Bad Idea and Security Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 07.14.06 by templeton @ 8:49 am
Imagine being overseas and your identity being available for the taking – your nationality, your name, your passport number. Everything. That’s the fear of privacy and security specialists now that the State Department plans to issue “e-Passports” to American travelers beginning in late August. Filed under: Bad Idea and General and Security Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 06.17.06 by templeton @ 11:53 pm
Sometimes you need to QUICKLY erase your Hard drive. The article explains how to do it when you only have seconds, and the data needs to be 100% unrecoverable. Filed under: Computers and Security Comments: None
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Posted on 11.15.05 by templeton @ 1:47 pm
Is your server as secure as it could be? The sleepless folks with the grsecurity project have developed an easy-to-use set of security enhancements to help put your fears to rest Filed under: Computers and Security Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 09.03.05 by templeton @ 2:37 pm
A flaw in Windows Firewall may prevent users from seeing all the open network ports on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 computer. The flaw manifests itself in the way the security application handles some entries in the Windows Registry, Microsoft said in a security advisory published Wednesday. The Windows Registry stores PC settings and is a core part of the operating system. The bug could allow a firewall port to be open without the user being informed through the standard Windows Firewall user interface, according to the Microsoft advisory. The company has released a fix that can be downloaded from Microsoft’s Web site and will be part of a future Windows service pack, the company said. [ Read more…]Filed under: Security Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 08.09.05 by templeton @ 11:58 pm
A major identity theft ring has been discovered that affects up to 50 banks, according to Sunbelt Software, the security company that says it uncovered the operation. The operation, which is being investigated by the FBI, is gathering personal data from “thousands of machines” using keystroke-logging software, Sunbelt said Monday. The data collected includes credit card details, Social Security numbers, usernames, passwords, instant-messaging chat sessions and search terms. Some of that data is then saved in a file hosted on a U.S.-based server that has an offshore-registered domain, according to Sunbelt. In the two days that Sunbelt has been monitoring the file, the company has seen confidential financial details of customers of up to 50 international banks, said Eric Sites, vice president of research and development at the Clearwater, Fla.-based security software maker. “For almost every bank that is listed (in the file), it’s possible to get into the person’s account,” Sites said. Along with passwords for online banking sites, information on credit cards also has been gathered. Sites said that Sunbelt had found one customer’s credit card number, expiration date and security code, in addition to name and address. That information would allow anyone to use the credit card, he said. [ Read more…]Filed under: Computers and Networks and Security Comments: 1 Comment
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Posted on 08.03.05 by templeton @ 3:00 pm
There has been lots of interesting and useful information coming out of this years security conferences (Defcon, BlackHat, What the Hack) ,but just about the only thing getting press is the Cisco IOS Vuln and Mike Lynn story. Here are some other articles of interest: Hacking hotel Infrared systems, Lock picking, WiFi World Record (125 miles), KegBot, VoIP Encryption, Car Whisperer (Previously Posted), and the annual Wall of Sheep. There is a large list of sites with pictures from defcon 13 at defconpics.org Filed under: Computers and Cool and Good Idea and Networks and Programming and Security and VOIP Comments: 1 Comment
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