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Ever wonder who you are buying those zero day exploits from?
Juergen Marester, a 24-year-old French network consultant, needed seed capital to start his own computer-security company. So he turned to his off-hours hobby — black-hat hacking — and did what a growing number of hackers are doing: selling “0days” (pronounced “oh-days” or “zero days,” it [...]
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2Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
DDOS - Tricks of the Trade
It is a bizarre technology environment we live in when this is a crime:
A 21-year-old Northern California man agreed to a two-year prison deal Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of unleashing distributed-denial-of-service attacks against two web sites.
Gregory King, known as Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK, and Gregk707, admitted in U.S. District Court in Sacramento that [...]
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16Jun2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
All your spyware are belong to us
It looks like BT thinks it is okay to install spyware on their customers computers. Nice.
BT has admitted that it secretly used customer data to test Phorm’s advertising targeting technology last summer, and that it covered it up when customers and The Register raised questions over the suspicious redirects.
The national telecoms provider now faces legal [...]
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4Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
You down with OPD (other people’s data)?
“Files containing confidential data on about 5,000 employees at MTV Networks were illegally accessed by someone outside the company, the network told employees on Friday in a memo obtained by Reuters. When asked for comment on the contents of the memo, MTV said in a statement that the security breach occurred after an Internet connection [...]
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7Mar2008 | 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
Your data is giving you radiation poisoning
Cory Doctorow is usually one to decry the use of fear, uncertainty, and doubt in articles is spinning plenty of it when it serves to support one of his pet issues. The privacy of personal data is certainly going to be an issue that defines our generation over the coming years, however, to [...]
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21Jan2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Beware of the Bear!
This is a moderately interesting article that discusses a big issue. It is almost impossible today to engage in commerce without revealing some sort of personal information and corporations are setting an early expectation with young children that giving out personal information is okay. Even something as seemingly harmless as building [...]
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21Jan2008 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Its sad when a business that has the potential to be admired thru out the world as being there for ...