April 27, 2008
Slashdot | Spam Is 30 Years Old: "New Scientist commemorates spam's 30th anniversary, a week from today."
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slashdot
InternetNews Realtime IT News - Is it Right For Hackers to Fight Fire With Fire?: "It all sounds very Independence Day (no word on whether Jeff Goldblum figured out how to do the hack) but it does raise a legal question: Is it right to fight the hackers using the same dirty tricks they use?"
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internetnews
BBC NEWS | Technology | Hackers warn high street chains: "That's the beauty of asymmetric warfare. You don't need a lot of money, or an army of people. You can do it from the comfort of your living room, with a beer in your hand."
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bbc
"Hidden malicious circuits provide an attacker with a stealthy attack vector. As they occupy a layer below the entire software stack, malicious circuits can bypass traditional defensive techniques. Yet current work on trojan circuits considers only simple attacks against the hardware itself, and straightforward defenses. More complex designs that attack the software are unexplored, as are the countermeasures an attacker may take to bypass proposed defenses."
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usenix