The Backtrack 3 beta is out and here is a video of it’s many features. In case you’ve been living under a rock, every package, kernel configuration, and script is optimized to be used by security penetration testers. Patches and automation have been added, applied or developed to provide a neat and ready-to-go environment.
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David Ritz, the veteran American spam-fighter, has been hit by $60,000 in fines plus lawyers fees after losing a civil suit that accused him of illegal hacking.
Sierra Corporate Design, a North Dakota business run by alleged former spammer Jerry Reynolds, sued Ritz for hacking and trespass offences. Ritz was accused of conducting unauthorized whois and [...]

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Neighboring countries battle it out with secret cyber armies of hackers, report says
JANUARY 17, 2008 | Taiwan officials say that 99 percent of cyber attacks on their government computers came from IP addresses in China, according to a published report in The Asahi Shimbun.
For over four years, personal computers of Taiwan’s top government officials and [...]

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Salt Lake City, Utah
Median Household Income Rank: 33
Unemployment Rank: 2
Income Growth Rank: 8
Cost Of Living Rank: 41
Job Growth Rank: 8

Wichita, Kan.
Median Household Income Rank: 65
Unemployment Rank: 23
Income Growth Rank: 5
Cost Of Living Rank: 7
Job Growth Rank: 7

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A significant cottage industry has sprung up among experts debating whether Apple’s iPhone should be sanctioned by IT departments for use in the enterprise. Last week, various sites and publications — including internetnews.com — reported that the first hack has arrived.
The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) issued a warning that a bogus upgrade is [...]

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As rival calls for recount in New Hampshire, TV documentary claims voting machines were easily hackable<
JANUARY 14, 2008 | The voting may be over in New Hampshire, but the debating isn’t, as pollsters and rivals question the validity of Hillary Clinton’s stunning upset victory last week.
According to reports, some of those who were surprised by [...]

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Dominos With 1500 Hard Drives

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Ok, I admit. I thrashed the Digg.com servers for a little while using an open source website mirroring tool named HTTrack.
About 30,000 user icons later, I present to you a product created by a couple very short and sweet command line tools.

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Where ‘medium sized’ means you have four or five concurrent users on ten tables with around half a million rows each and ‘top’ means that you’ve already done all the basic stuff - picking table types, adding indexes, designing the database properly in the first place etc.
Some are common sense. Some are not appropriate for [...]

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This is extremely off topic, but hilarious. “Women always say they want someone who listens and is kind and won’t punch them on the shoulder and call them gay. New York City comedy troop Don’t Touch Me There shows you what women are really looking for.”

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Ubuntu’s goal is to be the most popular desktop OS for humans. But Ubuntu, like most Linux distros, is still marketed towards Linux geeks. They’re concerned with technology, trumpeting version numbers and drowning out the actual things you can do with their software. Let’s look at the 7.10 announcement, and see how we can fix [...]

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Rasmus Lerdorf, the inventor of PHP in 1993. He is working for Yahoo! now.
“I’ve been reading this latest thread of posts around the net concerning Ruby and shared hosts, or equivalently, ease of installation. Here’s one. Here’s another. And I’m glad, for Ruby, that they are talking about this problem - I hope for their [...]

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Another decent Real ID article I found.
If states do not comply to the Real ID act, or file paperwork for extension for compliance, then passengers will not be able to use there state issued ID for purposes of flying. Any state that continues to fight the Real ID act will find its citizens unable to [...]

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But starting this May, states resisting the law will be penalized: Their driver’s licenses won’t be valid for air travel.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration hit the brakes Friday on a controversial law requiring Americans to carry tamper-proof driver’s licenses, delaying its final implementation by five years, until 2017.
A number of states have balked at the [...]

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THE DARWIN AWARDS - January 2008
Announcing the new, the beloved, the 2007 DARWIN AWARD WINNERS!
” Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by accidentally removing themselves from it. ”
This was the year of the Squashed Darwin Award Winner. THREE
independent groups of [...]

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