Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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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Time to test our security mindset

Posted on March 13, 2008 by felixctc

Hey everyone. I found a website where you can try to use various ways to hack through levels of password. I think this is a fun way to get in touch with our security mindsets and see how far you … 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: Car Alarms

Posted on March 9, 2008 by sky

Summary Most people have probably heard a car alarm go off sometime in their life, and the chances are that it was a false positive are also pretty good. Usually cars that have an alarm have some sort of alarm … Continue reading →

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Hacking ATMs

Posted on March 9, 2008 by jessicaf

ATMs are surprisingly easy to hack according to CNET.  From a report on ATMs, up to 90 percent of the ATMs in the U.K. could be at risk for worms, denial-of-service attacks, getting customer data intercepted, and having money stolen … Continue reading →

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[Collaborative] Chinese hackers: harmless scriptkiddies or a growing adversary?

Posted on March 9, 2008 by iddav

CNN got an inside view of the so-called “Chinese cyber militia” when a group of three Chinese hackers agreed to be interviewed. This group of hackers claim that “no site is one hundred percent safe,” and that they’ve even broken … Continue reading →

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A little security humor

Posted on March 9, 2008 by mstie74

The Onion has posted quite a funny video taking advantage of the many security problems with the Diebold voting machines. Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

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Humanoid Robot has future in Japan

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Fabian

Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080301/ap_on_re_as/japan_robot_nation;_ylt=AoX4B6VHVtvql_qBo0RBZj8jtBAF
http://www.stat.go.jp/English/data/handbook/c02cont.htm Continue reading →

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Wii hacked using buffer overflow

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Karl Koscher

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 →

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Security Review: Coin-Operated Laundromats

Posted on February 24, 2008 by zaxim

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 →

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