The document requires nations to adopt laws governing search and seizure of stored data, surreptitious Internet wiretapping, cross-border assistance, and retention of Internet provider records upon police demand. The treaty has been ratified by nations including Hungary, Romania and Croatia. President Bush has called on the Senate to follow suit.
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Learn How to Bypass BIOS Passwords
BIOS passwords can add an extra layer of security for desktop and laptop computers. They are used to either prevent a user from changing the BIOS settings or to prevent the PC from booting without a password. Learn the backdoors and other tricks of the trade that can be used to bypass or reset the BIOS password on most systems.
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Shavlik, HFNetChk.exe v. 3.86 – BEST HACKING TOOL!
HFNetChk.exe is the multi-threaded command-line tool you can use to assess a computer or selected group of computers for the absence of security patches.
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Largest Gathering of Hackers and Computer Security Experts in Asia
Many professional hackers and security experts group from all over the world will be expected to attend this high profile meet up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Don't miss out the great opportunity if you're in Malaysia from 26-29 of September.
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All the Federal Stats you can shake a stick at
Everything from energy, to ethnicity to income to labor and crime and more. Includes federal, state, and city data.
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Senate turns Attention to Data Privacy…
The Senate Judiciary Committee expects to vote next week on legislation making it a crime for data brokers to conceal a security breach involving personal data and increasing penalties for computer fraud when the act involves personal data.
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New Case Reveals Routine Abuse of Government Surveillance Powers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is arguing that a New York federal court should stand by its decision to require probable cause to believe a crime has been or is about to be committed before letting the government secretly track people using their cell phones.
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Penguin-suited activists crash Microsoft's Berlin parliament presentation
“Activists from the youth chapter of the German Greens party and the Berlin division of German hacker association CCC showed up in penguin suits and with a big 'Alt+F4' banner. They even managed to sneak in a PowerBook and deliver an audio stream via UMTS mobile internet connection.”
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Windows Vista has More Security Features
Windows seems to be taking security billions of dollars more serious. This is very exciting. I like Windows 2000/XP but the security is a major conscern. While I don't think Vista will be able to beat up on Unix, Its great that it will be more secure.
Some of Windows Vista's Security Features include:
Least-Priviledge User. Previous implementations of Windows are shipped out with no default security features. This is the reason most people surf with an Admin account. Vista will have User Account Protection which will restrict common users to the following:
Laptop users will be able to set a WEP key to attach to a home wireless networkUsers will be able to install printer driversUsers will be able to download and install updatesVPN and dial-up connections can be created and establishedRunning most applicationsBuilt in Anti-Virus and Firewall. Windows Vista will have the ability to clean virus from the system. So there may be less of a need for tools such as Adaware and Hijackthis. Although I suspect some third party tools will still be necessary.
The best thing I've read so far about the comming Vista security is the principles behind the Vista design:
According to Debra Shinder's article at WindowSecurity.com,
Last week at the MVP global summit in Redmond, I had the opportunity to hear from a number of Microsoft insiders, the guys who actually wrote the code, about their goals and philosophy in creating the new OS and included components such as Internet Explorer 7.0. I was encouraged by what I heard: defense in depth was a concept that kept coming up over and over again. Multi-layered security is the only way to provide real protection, and MS’s commitment to making fundamental changes in the architecture to support that type of protection will give Vista a big security edge over older Windows operating systems.
Resources:
Windows Vista Principle of Least Privileges. – Derek Melber
First Look at Windows Vista: Security at Last? – Debra Shinder
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Yet another university hacked for personal records
College networks are always getting owned. Why is that? You'd think that these haven for some of the greatest developing minds in the country would be like digital fortresses with a battalion of young Internet hardened GEEKS patroling the college data 24/7.
This is a sign that even though security awareness has risen people still are not taking it seriously.
POMONA – Computer hackers added Cal Poly Pomona to a growing list of schools from which personal information has been accessed illegally. Notification went out to 31,077 people Thursday that their records might have been stolen after Cal Poly Pomona discovered two computer servers were compromised in late June…