August 29, 2007
US-CERT deputy director: 'Hacktivism' attacks may rise: "Now that it's behind us, what is the conventional wisdom about what happened in the Estonian attack? The attacks had to do with the [movement of the Russian war memorial] statue. It was a hactivism attack. The Estonian government termed it a cyber riot. It was more politically motivated than anything else."
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computerworld
Threat Level - Wired Blogs: "But after proprietary information about KeeLoq was leaked to a Russian hacking web site (pdf) last year, the five researchers, from the University of Leuven as well as the Hebrew University and the Technion in Israel, began examining the system for vulnerabilities."
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wired
Deja vu all over again: Sony uses rootkits, charges F-Secure: "According to F-Secure Corp., the fingerprint-reader software included with the Sony MicroVault USM-F line of flash drives installs a driver that hides in a hidden directory under 'c:windows'."
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computerworld
Movie pirate forced to ditch Linux | The Register: "Using monitoring software and wearing a monitoring bracelet were bitter enough pill but switching to Windows is just too much for the Tux-lover, who intends to fight the decision."
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theregister
Security Manager's Journal: Security Crashes Into Productivity: "Now, only systems administrators and a few chiefs trained in laptop security have laptops. Even then, they can’t synchronize their My Documents folders from the network drive to the laptop. Protected data remains within the protected network."
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computerworld
10 reasons to be paranoid | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2007-08-27 | By Dan Tynan: "Here are 10 ways to practice your paranoia: Paranoia No. 1: Your boss is watching Paranoia No. 2: Google knows what you searched last summer Paranoia No. 3: There's a spook in your inbox"
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infoworld
August 07, 2007
TG Daily - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat: "The attack is actually quite simple. First Graham needs to be able to sniff data packets and in our case the open Wi-Fi network at the convention fulfilled that requirement. He then ran Ferret to copy all the cookies flying through the air. Finally, Graham cloned those cookies into his browser – in easy point-and-click fashion - with a home-grown tool called Hamster."
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tgdaily