“The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare units and developing viruses.”
Sounds like the stuff I read about in Tom Clancy’s NetForce. I guess the new arms race will be in cyberspace waged by superhackers and insane software engineer mercenaries. Sounds very “Shadow Run-esque”.
More links: cnn china cyber war
This video tutorial on YouTube shows how to actually pull up details on cell phone numbers, unlisted phone numbers and more. The video just goes to show that our privacy is being invaded on an increasing basis as technology advances. It’s scary – look up your own phone number and see for yourself!
Concerned about your privacy? One proactive step you can take is to remove your phone number from Google PhoneBook
A group of researchers has factored out the prime numbers in a 307-digit “special” number, and says that cracking a 1024-bit key is on the horizon.
So much for taking thousands of years to crack complex encryption
I’m getting thousands of comment spam. Way to many to sort through. Its too bad to because comments used to be one of my favorite things about blogs.Â
I’ll have to mass delete them. Before I was using Akismet. It was working pretty good against spam until my SQL comment table got corrupt. I had to go into the MySQL database and clear out all the data. Since I didn’t back up, it delete all my old comments.Â
I guess I’ll have to turn Akismet back on again.
Can an elderly father give police permission to search a password-protected computer kept in his adult son’s bedroom, without probable cause or a warrant? In April, a three judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said yes.
This is an interesting article. Apparently the cops used Encase on his computer and found all kinds of child porn.
Here is the case: USA vs. Ray Andrus –>http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/06/06-3094.pdf
For the last year I’ve been working on the DoD’s SDC implementation. Standardizing ALL common use desktops is a very good idea for security. But the problem I have with it, is that they are forcing SDC on mission systems as well. They allow extension for some systems.Â
This is a problem because mission systems are NOT standard. Each mission system is different with different requirements. Also, common desktops are in giant homogenous networks that can keep up with the changes in SDC with relative ease with applications like SMS. Mission system are often controlled by a different entity than host so they must be updated manually.
So bottom line: SDC – great for desktops, VERY bad for many mission systems.Â
Now SDC will be pushed to ALL government systems.
“Julie Amero has hung in limbo since January waiting for the Connecticut DA to either put up ( and put her away for up to 40 years ) or shut up and let her return to picking up the pieces of her shattered life. Her conviction on 4 felony counts came after an unprotected classroom computer running Windows 98 began spewing porn pop-ups.”
I’ve followed this case and it is the most amazing example of how incredibly UNJUST the U.S. justice system can be. The messed up thing about it, is that it is probably the best in the world. Julie Amero is looking at getting possibly 40 YEARS for porn pop-ups on a machine with no security. She didn’t activate the porn yet she is blamed for the “corruption” of the kids who saw the porn pop-ups.
If your a security guy, you will definitely see something wrong with how the justice system penned this on her.
See the Linux icon on the bootup screen capture mid way down the page! Man this makes me salivate. Linux technology, military gear, GPS, comm units… makes me want to join the Army (if it wasn’t for that whole “back to back year long tours in the middle of another countries civil war away from your family for indefinite amounts of time” thing).
A layperson’s guide to understanding piracy. Mommy? What’s a BitTorrent?
Lots of P2Ps have been either sued out of existence or completely destroyed by malware and lack of participation. So what is left?