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Kevin Mitnick Tells All in Upcoming Book
blog.wired.com — Kevin Mitnick Tells All in Upcoming Book -- Promises No Whining Now that the statute of limitations has lifted on many of his crimes -- as well as a seven-year court ban prohibiting him from writing about them (the ban ended midnight on January 28, 2007) -- former hacker Kevin Mitnick is telling his story in a book to be published next year.More… (Security)
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Gaping hole opened in Internet's trust-based BGP protocol
arstechnica.com — Dan Kaminsky revealed his discovery of a DNS flaw that could be exploited to direct unwitting users to malicious web addresses,Now, practically on the heels of that announcement, a hacker team that presented at DEFCON has demonstrated how a fundamental design error in the Internet's border gateway protocol can be used to invisibly eavesdrop.More… (Security)
optimusprime01
Judges consider whether FBI violated free speech in ISP case
reuters.com — A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a U.S. government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret.More… (Security)
MrBabyMan
Why Adam gets more spam than Eve
newscientist.com — Email addresses that begin with letters towards the end of the alphabet receive less spam than those starting with letters towards the end, says Richard Clayton at the University of Cambridge.More… (Security)
SirPopper
Lasers Could Send World's Most Secure Messages Through Space
popularmechanics.com — New experiments using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle extend the range of quantum cryptography, an advanced method of communicating in unbreakable code. Finding a way to keep snoops from tapping into other people's information is a challenge that has gone to the subatomic level. First proposed in 1984, quantum cryptography (QC) promises to sendMore… (Security)
diggbossBank Details of 1 Million Customers Sold on eBay
eweek.com — Personal details of more than 1 million customers of Royal Bank of Scotland, American Express and NatWest are found on a computer sold on auction site eBay.More… (Security)
warrior007‘Forgot your password?’ may be weakest link in web security
redtape.msnbc.com — Almost everyone forgets a Web site password once in a while. When you do, you click on the familiar Forgot your password? link. As an experiment, Thompson recently asked a few friends for permission to "hack" into their bank accounts. Using only information gathered from Web sites such as Facebook, he found his way in to each account within minutesMore… (Security)
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NASA infected with W32.TGammima.AG
theregister.co.uk — A computer worm that ferrets out passwords managed to stow away on laptops aboard the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed. It is not the first time a NASA computer has become infected. More… (Security)
ameologger
Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole
blog.wired.com — Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The demonstration is the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the web's core protocols.More… (Security)
MakiMaki
That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain't Protected
theregister.co.uk — It's one of the simplest hacks we've seen in a long time, and the more elite computer users have known about it for a while, but it's still kinda cool and just a little bit unnerving: A hacker has revealed a way to use Google and other search engines to gain unauthorized access to password-protected content on a dizzying number of websites.More… (Security)
Thousands of Personal Records Being Lost Each Month
telegraph.co.uk — More than 160 "significant" incidents of confidential data being misplaced by councils, central government and businesses have been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) since last November.More… (Security)
jaybol
Firefox 3 Highlights Websites’ Security Failings
webmonkey.com — There’s a contentious debate brewing around Firefox 3’s handling of SSL security certificates — the tools that tell the browser whether your connection is actually secure and connected to the site you’re trying to access.More… (Security)
oboy
2,396 Bikes Stolen and Saved for ... the Apocalypse [w/Pics]
webecoist.com — So what does one do with thousands of bicycles? Igor Kenk’s bizarre and record-setting collection has sparked myriad theories, ranging from the obvious: that he was planning to resell them all eventually in his used bicycle shop, to the eccentric: that he was saving them to sell as scrap metal or storing them for the upcoming energy apocalypse.More… (Security)
suxmonkey
Hacker Rips Off $12K in Calls Using Homeland Security Phones
gizmodo.com — According to security consultant John Jackson, the hacking was very low-tech and old school, which probably would make Steve "Blue Box" Wozniak proud, but it was an embarrassment for the agencyMore… (Security)
Are you hiding secret messages in LOLCAT photos?
spectrum.ieee.org — Earlier this year, someone at the US Department of Justice smuggled sensitive financial data out of the agency by embedding the data in several image files. Defeating this exfiltration method, called steganography, has proved particularly tricky, but one engineering student has come up with a way to make espionage work against itself.More… (Security)
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