TSA Inspector Damages 9 Planes At O’Hare Airport

Nine American Eagle aircraft were grounded today at Chicago O’Hare after they were damaged by a TSA inspector according to ABC News. TSA spokesperson Elio Montenegro confirmed the incident occurred when an inspector was conducting an overnight security check and decided to see if he could climb on top of parked aircraft in order to [...]

VMWARE Users: All your ESX 3.5 are belong to us

As of tomorrow morning, VM’s running on all hosts with ESX 3.5U2 in enterprise configurations will not power on. Boom. Apparently, there is some bug in the vmware license management code. VMware is scrambling to figure out what happened and put out a patch.

Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit

This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees.
Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. have discovered a technique that can be used to bypass all memory protection safeguards that Microsoft built into [...]

FREE Hannah Montana “Wake-up” Phone Call

FREE Back-to-School Phone Calls from Hannah Montana
As back to school season approaches, moms and dads across the country are planning to deal with sleepy students struggling with the tough transition from a carefree summer schedule to a back-to-school wake up routine. Now parents will have access to a unique solution featuring one of the year’s [...]

SSHKeygen.com… Only missing a credit card field. Ugh.

Not only generating private keys using an untrusted third-party, but sending them in the clear over http? Nice. I wonder where all these people are who are clever enough to need an SSH key, but too stupid to type ssh-keygen -t dsa?
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was some minor social engineering attempt; the server [...]

Dell offers computers that now include the “Windows Vista Bonus” package…

Dell is actively promoting a Microsoft licensing loophole to channel partners eager to keep selling PCs installed with Windows XP, after Microsoft’s official cut off.

Teens face felony charges of computer break-ins & grade changes at California High School

A teenager faces felony charges and could spend decades in prison over allegations that he repeatedly broke into an acclaimed Orange County high school, hacked into computers to change his grades and stole tests — all in hopes of improving his college admissions prospects, authorities said Tuesday.
Omar Khan, 18, should be graduating with his Tesoro [...]

Philly activists: “Let’s pass out flyers questioning the need for surveillance cameras.” Result: warrantless search. Police chief: “you’re a hate group.”

When Mayor Nutter announced late last year that he was hiring D.C. Charles Ramsey as his police commissioner, I said I would keep an open mind but I was dismayed at his treatment of anti-war protesters and his frequent clashes there over civil rights. So far, I’ve been mostly impressed with Ramsey — murders have [...]

HOWTO: Steal $5,000 in Fuel…

Talk about a gas guzzler… Police seized a truck and trailer equipped with a trap door that was used at least three times to siphon thousands of gallons of BP diesel fuel from underground storage tanks at a Tic Toc Food Mart in Mercer County.
“You got to have a little respect for this,” Hermitage police [...]

Lifelock CEO Todd Davis becomes ID theft victim

SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Todd Davis has dared criminals for two years to try stealing his identity: Ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock, even offer his Social Security number next to his smiling mug.
Now, LifeLock customers in Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia are suing Davis, claiming his service didn’t work as promised and [...]

Department of Homeland Security?

“So I recently discovered a great new running trail one evening- beautiful rolling dirt with old, moss-covered trees. Deer and owls, and not another human being to be found. Only problem is that the trail lay beyond a barb-wire fence, and a “No Trespassing” sign.
Went back a week or two later, found the end, and [...]

Microsoft just got pwned by Rupert Murdoch

News Corp in talks to join Microsoft on Yahoo bid
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and News Corp are in talks about a joint bid for Yahoo Inc that would add MySpace to the Yahoo-Microsoft combination proposed by the world’s largest software maker, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The talks with News Corp, [...]

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