Archive for February, 2008
All your crypto are belong to us
Looks like Blackhat Federal 2008 was a bit of a sleeper (surprise, surprise), but it looks like at least one interesting thing came out of it.
Encryption software designed to guard sensitive data on laptops can be circumvented by searching the computers’ volatile memory for traces of the encryption keys, a group of computer-security researchers said [...]
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23Feb2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Hacking’s new business model
Future trend. His only mistake, was being too greedy so as to attract attention.
The NY Times has an interesting story today that’s indicative of an emerging hacking-for-profit trend that just might allow the perpetrator to keep his ill-gotten gains. In this case, the crime doesn’t involve hacking databases to steal credit and debit card numbers, [...]
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15Feb2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Rewarding failure is a sure-fire recipe for….failure
Fail and get promoted…
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The Department of Homeland Security has appointed an official to head a top cybersecurity position charged with overseeing a new multi-million-dollar national protection plan despite the official’s poor security record and ongoing investigations by the FBI and the DHS inspector general into events that occurred previously under his watch, according to Government [...]
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I haven’t really missed them…
According to reports, the internet blackout, which has left 75 million people with only limited access, was caused by a ship that tried to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday. Since then phone and internet traffic has been severely reduced across a huge swath of the region, slashed by as [...]
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Its sad when a business that has the potential to be admired thru out the world as being there for ...