Category: Security
Forbes – The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess
Basically whatever bad/stupid thing Gawker could have done they did including ignoring the problem.
Geek Juice – Journalists need to learn what a ‘hacker’ really is
Journalism unfortunately by it’s nature leads people with limited training in any area other than writing to report on areas upon which they have no or limited knowledge thus leading them to say incorrect/stupid stuff.
The Economist – Another WikiLeaks inkblot: American exceptionalism, American hypocrisy
This is probably the best explanation as to why the Wikileaks story is so polarizing.
The Associated Press – Respected media outlets collaborate with WikiLeaks
This is an interesting aspect to the story of Wikileaks and the document dump it’s performing.
Eric Cantor – Citizen Review
Though leave it to a politician to leave scientific decisions to average citizens with no training in science.
Journal of Transportation Security – An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics
Yet another reason for why the backscatter machines need to be independently tested.
ITworld – Gov’t crackdown spurs initiatives to route around DNS
DNS unfortunately is too easily interfered with on the basis of political decisions.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship
What more do you need to know?
NYTimes.com – Color-Coded Terror Alerts to Be Dropped by Homeland Security
It only took the Department of Homeland Security 8 years to realize what a stupid and useless metric this was.
SQL injection with raw MD5 hashes – cvk | nc -l -p 80
Seemingly impossible to build a password that would after being MD5 hashed return a SQL injection, but nope it is possible even within a reasonable time frame.