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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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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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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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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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Amateurs at work
The amateurs have come out to play and are making a general mess of things. No worries, just more background noise for the professionals to hide their tracks in…
Anti-Scientology agitators have repeatedly harassed and threatened violence against a 59-year-old PG&E worker and his wife, who they mistakenly flagged as pro-Scientology hackers.
John Lawson, who lives [...]
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Have an account on MySpace? Get accused of linking to porn!
I feel sorry for this poor sap, but even sorry for the retards that are running that school. I challenge anyone to create a MySpace account and link to 100 friends and then NOT be indirectly link to some sort of porn site. This story borders on absurd.
In the goofiest waste of law enforcement [...]
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Another massive attack, another teen culprit
There was a lot of press coverage relating to alleged Russian attacks against Estonia and there were even accusations that the Russians had hired black market botnets to engage in the attack. Wrong again it looks like! The only thing this story is missing is an elaborate code name to describe it….maybe SOLAR SUNSET?
A 20-year-old [...]
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Hackers versus Tom Cruise
Cue the Mission Impossible theme one more time…
“A loose confederation of online troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous have declared war on the Church of Scientology by flooding its servers with fake data requests, describing the attacks as punishment for the Church’s alleged abuse of copyright laws and alleged brainwashing of its members.
Anonymous congregates on the [...]
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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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Its sad when a business that has the potential to be admired thru out the world as being there for ...