Monthly Archives: February 2008
Facebook storing your information
While this may not be breaking news, it turns out that Facebook has taken just one more step in not respecting their user’s privacy. According to a semi-recent article in the New York Times, Facebook retains user profile information even after the … Continue reading
RIAA investigators unaware of IP spoofing or BGP hijacking?
Slashdot reports that an assistant professor of Delft University Technology in the Netherlands calls a recent investigation by the RIAA, “Borderline Incompetent”. A recent investigation by the RIAA was accusing the defendants of distributing copyright material over Kazaa. In the … Continue reading
Wii hacked using buffer overflow
Slashdot is reporting that a lot of Wii homebrew code is being developed and released now. Apparently, a bug was found in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that allows you to smash the stack by overflowing the horse name … Continue reading
Pakistan ISPs, Routing, and YouTube
Here’s a link to the article I mentioned today in class, which is related to the material that we covered on Friday: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/02/pakistan_censorship_order_take.html (from The Washington Post). Here’s a quote from the article: So, what happened? From everything I’ve read … Continue reading
DVD Jon’s DoubleTwist
Jon Johansen (known for his work in defeating CSS in DVDs) has recently released an application known as DoubleTwist. DoubleTwist is designed to defeat Apple’s FairPlay DRM by playing the track’s in fast forward and capturing the analog signal as … Continue reading
Google to Store Patient Health Data
News article here, covered on Slashdot here. Google, with the cooperation of the Cleveland Clinic, is beginning a project to record medical history and other health-related data for patients. The stated goal is to provide patients with a way to … Continue reading
ISP caching issue exposes Gmail data
Last week, when a Kuwait-based Gmail user tried logging in, he was denied access to his own account, and instead was granted access to over 30 accounts that did not belong to him. He was able to peek into other … Continue reading
Security Review: Coin-Operated Laundromats
They’re out there…Some of us use them everyday…Especially college students living away from home…We can’t avoid them, unless we want to be stinky… Yes I’m talking about coin-operated laundries… Coin-operated washing facilities provide an interesting security problem, since the users … Continue reading
U.S. Intelligence wants to monitor WoW chat
Called The Reynard project, it is a series of plans for the U.S. Intelligence to monitor more internet traffic, most notably, data mining from several major MMORPGs, including WoW. The goal being to eventually create a system that can “automatically … Continue reading