Brits planning a trip to the US will now have to surrender all 10 of their digits to the authorities for fingerprinting. The prints will then be added to the same FBI database which stores the prints of convicted criminals. This leads to our first fashion prediction of 2007: this season’s cool terrorists will mostly be wearing gloves.
Category: Main Digg
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Spies put transmitters in Canadian coins!
Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets of at least three American contractors who visited Canada, says a branch of the U.S. Defense Department.
Security experts believe the miniature devices could be used to track the movements of defence industry personnel dealing in sensitive military technology.
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Teacher convicted due to porn pop-ups on infected computer
Is this a miscarriage of justice? A substitute school teacher in Connecticut has been found guilty of exposing children to porn when pop-ups appear on infected school computer. She could face up to 40 years in prison.
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So neighbors steal your wi-fi net access, kill the connection or have fun
So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or…? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)… (or you could sniff all their traffic)
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NSA Admits To Microsoft Vista “Contributions”
“According to the Washington Post, the agency which was once so secret that it was jokingly referred to as ‘No Such Agency’ has admitted making ‘unspecified contributions’ to Vista. The assistance is at the US taxpayers’ expense, although the NSA says it all makes perfect sense.” Innocent? Probably. But how can you tell?
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The Last Large Scale Commercial TV Signal Hijacking
On 22 November 1987, sports anchor Dan Roan of Chicago’s WGN-TV News Network was narrating the video of the day’s football highlights when something highly unusual happened. The pictures on the station monitors in the studio & TVs across Chicago suddenly began to jitter & twitch & the feed was replaced with an sinister feed of a masked TV pirate.
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The Fight Against Phishing- 44 Tips to Protect Yourself
Phishing costs businesses and consumers billions of dollars a year, even though only a small percentage of darts hit the target. Yes, even savvy Web users can get scammed. Here are 44 tips to make sure you don’t.
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The 60 minute network security guide..by the NSA
Interesting pdf brought to you by the National Security Agency. NSA has scores of these. There are very comprehensive with military grade security. They have some of the best security guides on the ‘Net for everything from routers, to servers, unix systems.
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Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea
Good article on why this is not secure. Includes a “blurred check” example with some of the mathematics behind it.
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Credit Card Information Sent Over AOL Instant Messenger (w/pic of receipt!)
I thought he was entering data on a Point-Of-Sale machine. Imagine my surprise when he showed me that my name, street, city, state, zip, credit card number and expiration date had just been sent unencrypted over an instant message session! — digg
this is pretty funny.