“Windows 2000 as well as Windows XP Professional both allow the end user to construct a IPSec Firewall without having to rely on canned or “for purchase” third-party solutions.”
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The Bigger Your Hard Drive, The Longer You Wait For Trial?
Cops say hard drives justify 90 day jail without trial.
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New RAZR Pictures and Rumors
Howardforums has a cool thread buzzing about the new Razr.
If you want more picts of the new RAZR check out motorolla's site: MOTO RAZR Black. Looks pretty sweet.
“I got a sneak peak at one of the new motorola razrs today, and wow was I blown away…” — Blogsome blogger
read more on the RAZR at this gadget blog.
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suntzu – Hacking and the Security Professional
suntzu,
originally uploaded by elamb_blog.
I've been hacked a few times (that I know of). As a security professional, it is my belief that being hacked (or hacking… ethically) is the best way to learn about phishing, social engineering, buffer overflows, denial of service attacks, malware etc.Unfortunately, a lot of “information security professionals” don't know anything about what hacking is or what hackers are all about. The term “hacker” is not always a criminal activity. Information Security professionals should have exposure to hacking like cops have exposure to drugs.
Of course, some information security professionals don't have anything to do with hacking or anything technical (as Martin McKeay has pointed out to me). My point is that all Security Professionals (including cops, investigators, even Infantry) should know their enemies and their enemies tactics.
Like a detective knowing the criminal mind.
It was Sun Tzu, ancient Chinese warrior, author of The Art of War, that said that you must “know your enemy” before going into battle. If “you know your enemy and know yourself,” he wrote, “you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Sun Tzu went on to say, “If you know yourself but not the enemy, every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.”
And that is why I love going to Defcon. There is every spectrum of computer security aficionado.
http://elamb.blogharbor.com/hacked/igothacked.htm
Del.icio.us has built a media player directly into the site
Another reason why I love Del.icio.us!
If you find a link to a MP3 file, a small icon appears to the left of the bookmark that can be clicked to play the file. Try it out.MESSAGE FROM SYSTEM TO ALERT
System Exploits with the Windows Messenger service lead to fake anti-virus scareware: Cleanthispc, fixms, repair registry pro, system alert run registry, fixreg32
Critical Windows Patch May Wreak PC Havoc
Yay, Windows!
A Microsoft patch meant to fix critical security flaws in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is causing trouble for some users, the company said Friday.
Trojan Pretends to be Skype Update
Another attempt to hijack systems with bait software. P2P file share programs has lots of these bastards running around (the older free ones anyway). I'll look into this and put together a manual on how to remove it… gotta find the bad Skype first.
The Trojan horse, a variant of IRCbot, arrives in an e-mail purporting to be an update to Skype, the popular Internet telephony application. Once opened the malicious software displays a phony installation error message. It then blocks access to security updates and installs a back door on computers, MessageLabs said in a statement.
List of Fake Anti-Spyware Programs!
This is a list of so called anti-spyware programs. All of them are fakes, show erroneuos results and are spyware themselves.
PS Guard Removal
PS Guard is viscious scareware that loads itself each time you attempt
to unistall it. It is malware that claims to be malware
remover. It disables your Task Manager, informs you that your
system is infected and doesn't allow you to exit from it while it scans
your computer for viruses.Removing PS Guard
it is a bit tricky. Adaware and Hijack this will do nothing to
remove it. Noahdfear over at GeekstoGo.com wrote a sweet little
script to remove it called smitrem. It does the trick in removing PS Guard.I picked it up at some Russian warez site on my Honeypot sytem.