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Apple’s Hymn/FairPlay DRM
Summary FairPlay is an encryption scheme (DRM) developed by Apple to prevent users from further distributing playable content to other users. It has been cracked numerous times in different ways to create unrestricted/unencrypted versions of the content. The technology has … Continue reading
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Hundreds of Thousands of Web Pages Hijacked
McAfee noticed Wednesday an ongoing attack that modifies web pages to redirect traffic to another site in China. This site then infects PC’s with a Trojan to steal personal information, including usernames/passwords for online banking. According to McAfee, “one gang” … Continue reading
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Microsoft bad practices
Given all the Microsoft-bashing that takes place among Linux-users, I’m surprised that no one has posted an article (that I’ve seen, at least) that clearly has an anti-Microsoft bias. Despite the bias of the following article, it makes a valid … Continue reading
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Firefox “View-Source” Vulnerability
I thought that since most of us use Firefox people might care – apparently the default installation/settings of Firefox’s latest release allow all scripts written on websites to be executed. I don’t know with what privileges the code executes, but … Continue reading
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Anti-Virus Vendor Hacked
I just read an article about an Indian security company AvSoft whose website got hacked and distributed malicious code rather than their own when users tried to download software. The attack used was iFrame injection on the vulnerable site. From … Continue reading
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New York’s Total Snoop Grid Moving Forward
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/241207_snoop.htm The article describes the “mission creep” going on in our war on terrorism. While the purported reason for installing thousands of cameras in Manhattan is to protect us from terrorism, Manhattan seems an odd place to be spending to … Continue reading
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