Giving the Gift of a new PC?
Thanks to Slashdot for the good link. If you are giving the gift of a new PC then you need to provide the following link to the new owner this will allow them to survive the first 24 hours without getting hacked [SANS]
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Security
Hackers owned Wi-Fi Planet
In only what can be described as disturbing it appears that hackers where very successful in hacking Wi-Fi connections. What amazes me is the technology is available to secure Wi-Fi Networks. I am not sure how much of the technology is available to general consumers but I do know of a wide range of Wi-Fi devices that are passing the
Internet Explorer URL Spoofing Vulnerability
This information has made the rounds already but a few of you have sent me e-mail asking about the vulnerability I thought should provide you a link to Test you Internet Explorer. This is a pretty serious spoof as of yet Microsoft has not found a fix for it. To find out if you are at risk visit the following
Clay Shirky talks about the RIAA forcing people to adopt Encryption
I have always been intrigued with encryption and use PGP on select e-mail from time to time and understand the US Governments fear of wider adoption. But my adoption and utilization of encryption on a personal level goes no further than that occasional e-mail that has more info in it than I am willing to reveal to someone non-official sampling
The Weakest Link is Social Engineering I have proof!
I may muck things up for some people by writing about this, but a article I read today has prompted me to tell you about an legitimate social engineering approach I used to fix some of our work accounts. Where I work we have a significant number of dial-up accounts that are divided up to people that travel a lot.
I Can’t See You Anymore
Light travels at 186,000 miles (300 million meters) per second in a vacuum but physicists in the United States and Russia are just a little bit faster, actually capturing the light photons and stopping them in their tracks. The newly-developed technique offers opportunities to improve optical communication, manage quantum data, a boon to the future of both communication and digital security.
SCO Under DOS attack again
Apparently SCO needs to hire some System Administrators that have a clue on how to prevent this third DOS attack. But maybe they are spending most of there cash on the Lawsuit with IBM? They are being criticized by industry experts for not beefing up there security and not employing technology that can beat these DOS attacks. They may know