Category Archives: Current Events

Current Events: British Police Want DNA of Children

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Trip Volpe

From The Guardian, and on Slashdot. Police in the United Kingdom may soon be be able to collect DNA samples from children if they exhibit behaviors that suggest they may commit crimes later in life, at least if Scotland Yard … Continue reading →

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Current Events: No need for jello, fingerprint USB sticks are easy to crack.

Posted on March 16, 2008 by jimg

No need to go to great lengths to try to spoof finger print scanners on USB sticks. You can just tell the device that the data is public. Researches discovered this vulnerability in models from 9pay and A-Data fingerprint USB … Continue reading →

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Hundreds of Thousands of Web Pages Hijacked

Posted on March 16, 2008 by imv

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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Virus laden hardware emerges

Posted on March 16, 2008 by mccoyt

While the idea of software viruses is by no means new to those who work with computers, a new vector of attack seems to be developing in the form of hardware shipped from the manufacturer that is already infected with malware. … Continue reading →

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Hackers hit Harvard

Posted on March 15, 2008 by aodle56

It was recently announced that last February at least one hacker was able to gain access on one server at Harvard University potentially viewing private information on up to 10,000 grad students and applicants of the Graduate School of Arts … Continue reading →

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Linux server attacked more than all version of windows combined

Posted on March 15, 2008 by duschang

Zone-H(http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14928/30/) has recently released a statistical breakdown of all the attacks from last three years. Surprisingly, Linux servers are the most attacked servers, even more than all version of windows combined. They suspect the reason for this is due to … Continue reading →

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The House on Amending FISA Act

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Kris Plunkett

Today the House of Representatives voted on a bill that would amend the FISA Act of 1978, which deals with government wiretapping. The amendments would deny amnesty to telecommunication industries for complying with illegal warrant less wiretaps by the Bush … Continue reading →

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Feature or Flaw?

Posted on March 13, 2008 by davidjsh

According to an article found at Dark Reading, Adam Boileau from Immunity Inc, has decided after two years to make publicly available his tool Winlockpwn that “lets an attacker take over a ‘locked’ Windows machine without even stealing its password” … Continue reading →

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Security Review: Apple iPhone 3rd party application support

Posted on March 9, 2008 by jimg

On Thursday, Apple happily unveiled its plan for third party support of native iPhone applications. The plan involves an application development and distribution pipeline including an iPhone SDK, a suite of IDE tools, and a sales and distribution plan through … Continue reading →

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The Goolag Scanner and Google Hacking

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Kris Plunkett

Bruce Schneier posted on his blog earlier in the week about a new, free, open source application by the “Cult of the Dead Cow” (cDc) called Goolag Scanner. It essentially automates a technique called Google Hacking, which was pioneered by … Continue reading →

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