linux - a cautionary tale
which is why i stopped recommending Linux to the masses :-p
The Black Market Code Industry
Inside the shadowy underworld where rogue employees sell holes in their companies’ software. The buyers: security firms, mobsters, and — surprise — the U.S. government.
0day 27-28May2008 in Flash
I checked exploited flash files and bug exloited (BugTraq ID:29386) will attempt to download real malware to C:\6123t.exe and uses for it urlmon.dll
So Users of GFI WebMonitor 4 should be protected in most cases.
Good info about this vol. is at this blog: http://ddanchev.blogspot.com
Federal Business Operations needs rootkit developers
From here:
“Of interest are any and all techniques to enable user and/or root level access to both fixed (PC) or mobile computing platforms. Robust methodologies to enable access to any and all operating systems, patch levels, applications and hardware are of interest. Also, we are interested in technology to provide the capability to maintain an active presence within the adversaries’ information infrastructure completely undetected. Of interest are any and all techniques to enable stealth and persistence capabilities on an adversaries infrastructure. This could be a combination of hardware and/or software focused development efforts.”
New Security Device
New Security Device Creates 10Mbps Connection by Using Body’s Aura
Japanese firm NTT has introduced a new security access system called Firmo, that can automatically create a 10Mbps connection between a portable device held on the user and a touch panel by using the body’s natural electromagnetic energy.
The system takes advantage of a weak, naturally-occurring electric field around the body. The name is short for “fairy motion” because of the aura that surrounds Tinkerbell. Although it uses ham radio frequencies, it is designed not to interfere.
It also works through clothing and shoes, but never actually penetrates the body. NTT says it offers better security over current access cards that can allow entrance to intruders many meters away by using a signal whose range is several centimeters.
Sexy geeks..?!
Whoever said geeks can’t be sexy ???
Check out the article entitled 12 Reasons Why a Geek Will Steal Your Girlfriend in 2008
Hurray Flickr got videoflicks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fl-r/2402215499/
I couldnt add directly flash video as this wordpress supports only youtube style embeded videos?
BTW: Yahoo+AOL < Yahoo+ Microsoft
(Note: yahoo owns flickr )
OSX 10.5.2 hacked in 2 minutes
competing OSes: Ubuntu 7.10, Vista Ultimate SP1 and OSX 10.5.2.
In the first day of the challenge no computer could be breached, as the organizers only allowed attacks over a network.
The second day of the hacking contest allowed attackers to visit Web pages or open messages in e-mail clients. Charlie Miller, who hacked the iPhone in 2007, breached the MacBook Air via a zero-day vulnerability ….
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/28/mac-hacked-two-minutes-flat
Killer military robots
The time is near when we won’t exactly be able to stop these drones - especially if they cost £250 to manufacture 
A robotics expert at the University of Sheffield will today (27 February 2008) issue stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide.
Read the whole article here
Using P2P to speed up multi-player gaming
An interesting discussion on how P2P and using the game in-built bot technology to make multi-player gaming over low bandwidth smooth. This is the link to the main post.
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