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Now, THAT is how you get attention… A security consultant decided to execute some code, scan Facebook for publicly search-able profiles, and publish that information in a 2.8GB download via torrent at thepiratebay.org. I don’t have first hand knowledge of what’s in the file, the download has about 40 minutes left before finishing.
In light of [...]
That’s just lazy, and no fun. In the dark recesses of the Chinese Internet, as well as at least one Beijing Bazaar, Wi-Fi cracking kits are being sold. The kits include a USB wireless adapter, a CD running a Linux distribution, and detailed instructions for getting wireless network passwords.
Of course, the software developer points out [...]
Zeus is proving to be pretty persistent, and is now targeting a flaw in Adobe’s PDF format to install itself on Windows based machines. What does Zeus do? Not much, it just logs keystrokes and steals banking information…
The good news? So far, it’s a pretty unsophisticated attack. An email comes with a pdf attached, [...]
On day one of the security convention, pretty much everything was hacked. Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari – both on OS X 10.6 and on the iPhone were all compromised. The vendors all get to know how it happened, and hopefully they can patch for the hacks that were used.
What’s unsettling to me, is the [...]
For some reason, this article has resurfaced on some of the sites I visit frequently, and has inspired me to give the other side of the argument. To sum it up, a Slate writer is advocating for complete end-user control of corporate-owned IT assets. To make a long story short, he says that users would [...]
