Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Administration
During wartime, one of America’s most solemn duties is to take care of its veterans. So why do careless government workers keep putting our vets at risk? That happened last January at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Birmingham, Alabama, when an employee’s portable hard drive containing Social Security numbers of more than [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Administration
The fact that Facebook is well designed, well run, and reliable is sufficient evidence that it isn’t run by the government… but enjoy this article from “Down Under” anyway…
“Facebook has 20 million users worldwide, is worth billions of dollars and, if internet sources are to be believed, was started by the CIA.
The social networking phenomenon [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Administration
Terry Childs, the former IT administrator accused of kidnapping the city of San Francisco’s data network, is ready to give up the administrative passwords to the system, his attorney said yesterday.
Childs is accused of changing all of the city’s network passwords so that only he could access the network, which contains email, payroll, law enforcement, [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Administration
Jacob Appelbaum, one of the security researchers who worked on the paper cold boot attack on encryption keys (featured in a previous BBtv episode, above) tells us the code has just been released today at the [last] HOPE hacker con in NYC. It’s up, it’s signed, and here it is.
Memory Research Project Source Code
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Administration
SummerBoard is an extension to the iPhone’s SpringBoard user experience. SummerBoard adds a variety of useful and fun features to your iPhone, including [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Administration
Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Administration
In the following article, I refer to the GNU/Linux OS and various Free & Open-Source Software (FOSS) projects under the catch-all name of “Linux”. It scans better.
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Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Administration
A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks.
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Administration
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.1 to address three vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. One of these vulnerabilities may also affect Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. Two of these vulnerabilities were previously fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.16 as well; please see the US-CERT Current Activity [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Administration
The following is a design for a CAPTCHA that is likely invulnerable to automated decryption. I originally developed this as part of an anti-spam system that was a very early progenitor of Receiver Initiated Authentication. This CAPTCHA should be particularly invaluable given the recent reports that bots now have as high as a 35% successful [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Administration
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Administration
I’m not sure what Chinese string this restaurateur fed to the translation software used to to generate the giant sign hanging over the entrance, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t: TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR. Ah, the special problems of translations into other alphabets.
Source
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Administration
This happened to a friend of mine yesterday. The forum he posted this on is “members only” so here it is. Absolutely hilarious…
–scroll to bottom for cliffs–
“First off, I never thought I would be the one telling one of these stories so if you dont think this could happen to you, think again.
I work as [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Administration
Pretty good deal, and the first time I’ve seen Amazon offer this kind of Blu-ray special…
Now through July 27, the Amazon DVD team is offering a special Buy 2 Get 1 Free promotion on over 100 Blu-ray titles. This is a fantastic opportunity for your customers to start building their Blu-ray libraries with Amazon’s great [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Administration
Penguin-powered mini notebooks are selling like hotcakes. But will they finally bring Linux into the mainstream? Don’t count on it.
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