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Norton Antivirus Gaming Edition - What Bs

Blake — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:07:02 +0000

Wow I might be late to the party on this one, but I just saw an advert for Norton Antivirus Gaming Edition. They claim that this version is meant to protect the gamers since it uses less resources. Whaaaat?? How about they just minimize their bloatware in the first place. Paying for this would be like paying more money for a product called "Better Edition" Just unbelievable.

The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack Document Leak

Blake — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:44:39 +0000

The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked. Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected. No personal accounts were compromised, and “most of the sensitive information was personal rather than company-related,” he said. The individual behind the attacks, known as Hacker Croll, wasn’t happy with that response. Lots of Twitter corporate information was compromised, and he wanted the world to know about it.

Getting free wireless in airports and hotels

Blake — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:15:20 +0000

You're sitting in an airport or in a cafe, and people want your money for Internet access. They do allow ICMP traffic, though (i.e., you can ping machines on the Internet). Enters ICMPTX. (If you can't use ping, but you can issue name queries, use NSTX: IP-over-DNS.)

Milw0Rm Closes from Srt0ke

Blake — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:43:53 +0000

Well, this is my goodbye header for milw0rm. I wish I had the time I did in the past to post exploits, I just don't :(. For the past 3 months I have actually done a pretty crappy job of getting peoples work out fast enough to be proud of, 0 to 72 hours (taking off weekends) isn't fair to the authors on this site. I appreciate and thank everyone for their support in the past.
Be safe, /str0ke

Ipod And Iphone Camera's Do You Allow Them?

Blake — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:04:21 +0000

I know that alot of companies are always concerned with propritary data getting outside of the company. Some go through great lengths to prevent the data from leaving the company. But now that so many phones have cameras and also now with applications like Evernote, you can take a picture of a document and and have it converted to text.

Ex - Goldman Sachs Programmer Arrested

Blake — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:45:35 +0000

Looks like the conomy has hit everyone a bit hard. A former programmer for Goldman Sachs who was employed to work on high volume trading software is being charged with theft of trade secrets. Now he states that all he did was transfer open source code that he was working on

PHP Security: Fortifying Your Website- Power Tips, Tools & How to

Blake — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:01:28 +0000

PHP Security involves minimizing programming errors as much as possible, and putting proper code in place to protect against possible vulnerabilities – Often times this means putting 2-3 “layers” of protection in place to guard sensitive data against hackers that could otherwise cause a catastrophic result if compromised. Developers call this principle of redundant safeguarding Defense in Depth, and this concept has been proven over the years to be an extremely effective defense against malicious attacks.

Nervous About The Usenet Riaa Piracy Crackdown

Blake — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:21:09 +0000

Anyone else a bit nervous?

Federal Court Hands Record Companies Decisive Verdict In Usenet.com Lawsuit
WASHINGTON - A federal district court late Tuesday afternoon issued a decisive ruling in favor of the record companies in the lawsuit against Usenet.com. A copy of that ruling is available upon request. Below is a comment on the favorable ruling from Steven M. Marks, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Recording Industry Association of America:

Interesting Computer Security And Hacking Videos

Blake — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:22:35 +0000

I will be posting interesting video on SecurityTube in this thread. It is important to note that these are videos which people have submitted / referred to SecurityTube and have not been made by me.

Tools and tricks of the white hat hackers

Blake — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:58:22 +0000

The term hacker may be used to describe people who steal information from computers, but that's just the dark side of the story.

Like the cowboy heroes of childhood, there are white hats as well as black, and the former are legal hackers: security professionals who aim to make the wilds of the internet a safer place for us all, tracking down and rounding up the exploits that endanger our computers.