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The dire warnings sent out last week about the website defacing challenge has not materialized as expected. The site announcing the contest was removed by the hosting company. We will see how this pans out over the next several days. [Infoworld]
Hack Proof (?) invisible software based walls will save our cities in case of hijackers... I'm more worried about messed up avionics casuing a non-hijacked flight to crash in a building... Imaging if the software screws up and you can't leave the city's inner airspace! [New Scientist]
The third WarDriving event is underway thru the 5th of July so if you spot a vehicle parked outside your house with some geeks inside running a laptop and a couple of weird antennas on the roof don't be surprised if your WiFi connection has just been mapped. The group has been criticized in the past but there goal is
Having used the registered version of ZoneAlarm for a long time I did not even know they had a freeware version. Apparently there is a serious security flaw in the freeware version. [The Register]
"Security-software maker Symantec warned customers Tuesday that users of its online Security Check service have likely downloaded a flawed ActiveX control that could be used by an intruder as a path into the victim's PC. Security Check is meant to help people lock down their systems and loads an ActiveX script that aids in scanning a person's computer. Ironically, the
I use SQL to link to some very large databases which started out very small and when I had little experience with databases much less SQL. I have nearly a million entries in a personal information cache with nearly 20 years of shareware and white papers I have collected/tried/read. I could never travel with that data but on almost a
You may have never knowingly been affected by a Hacker War but chances you were and did not know it. Only a fool would want to piss these groups off. Many are truly gifted and kick some serious butt. A great article on the insights of Hacker Wars and what we can expect in the future. [Online Security]