Elamb Cybersecurity

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  • Cybercrime: Flourishes in Online Hacker Forums

    “Want proof? Just visit any of a dozen or so thriving cybercrime forums, websites that mirror the services of Amazon.com and the efficiencies of eBay. Criminal buyers and sellers convene at these virtual emporiums to wheel and deal in all things related to cyberattacks — and in the fruit of cyberintrusions: pilfered credit and debit card numbers.”

    Being proactive is really the only security you can have these days. Watch your credit card accounts, periodically cruise you bank accounts for rogue withdrawls, pay attention to the latest massive financial organization account loses. DO NOT GIVE CRITICAL INFORMATION TO SOLICITING CALLERS. If you must do business over the phone, hang up with who ever has called and called them back. But it is best to NEVER make transaction with someone who has called you. No matter how good it sounds, it is just to easy to fake telephonically. This goes for email as well.

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  • Expert: Windows Kernel Protection Expected To Break Soon

    PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect key parts of Windows, will be hacked sooner rather than later, a security expert said Thursday.

    Security companies have been taking all sorts of shots at Vista. Symantec, the world’s largest maker of antivirus software, has been leading the pack, closely followed by others including McAfee, Check Point Software Technologies and Panda Software.

    “Security companies have complained that PatchGuard, while meant to lock out bad guys, also prevents certain types of security software from running. The security software makers had gotten used to taking advantage of the Windows kernel, a move Microsoft is preventing with PatchGuard.”

    Symantec and others might have to invest in breaking the Windows Kernel Protection just to stay in the game. That is pretty dirty but since so much of their revenue is dependent on the typical Windows user, they will either have to break it or start expanding into T-Shirts or something else that Microsoft won’t dominate.

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  • Disney-ABC: “We understand piracy now as a business model”

    “After years of clinging to traditional business models, media companies have finally started embracing ad-supported Internet distribution in a big way. Yesterday’s announcement that several major music labels made nice with YouTube may turn out to be a watershed moment for the industry”

    Another good idea would be for the MPAA/RIAA to compete with piracy by providing lower cost/lower quality products. If, for example, they sold a Ludacris album for $5 and produced at a much, much lower quality (but slightly better than one you might get from someone else) they might be able to recover some of the losses from piracy. To complete the circle, they could add a way for consumners to access some music site with targeted ads and even better deals. Combine this with technical limits on the quality that a consumner can have when backing up the CD, and you have just created your own piracy conspiracy. Pirates who burn illegally have to at some point use an original copy of and album or DVD to create their product. If you made it harder for them to get a quality copy (which has been done) then marketed a much cheaper version (with better features, a throw-away album so to speak) consumners would flock to it.

    Further, if you made it viral by selling the “throw away CD/DVDs” to the pirates at whole sale prices, you could make money and save them the trouble of burning them by the hundreds. They might even be able to compete with the Asian piracy market if they did something like this.

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  • AMERICAN ADVANTAGE Benefits address phone number

    If you didn’t know, AMERICAN ADVANTAGE Benefits is a false organization doing international fraud with organizations like EZ 1 rate.  They commit financial fraud and sell the personal information of unsuspecting victims.
    One of my readers gave me the inside scoop on American Advantage Benefit’s real address:

    630 Albert st. Oshawa Ontario,

    Canada 4H4T5

    AMERICAN ADVANTAGE Benefits phone number: 323-230-9576

    Canada, just as I suspected.

  • Set up a personal, home SSH server

    It’s simple to set up an SSH server right on your Windows PC with Cygwin (and even simpler on your Mac). Once your personal SSH server is up and running, you can connect to your home computer securely from anywhere on the internet, up and download files and perform all the command line tasks your heart desires. Here’s how.

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  • Data breaches near 94 million public records

    Less than two years into the great cultural awakening to the vulnerability of personal data, companies and institutions — such as the data broker ChoicePoint, CardSystems Solutions, Time Warner and dozens of colleges and universities across the land — have collectively fumbled 93,754,333 private records.

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  • DOE Fails 5 Years In A Row: 22% Increase in “Significant” Security Risks

    The U.S. Department of Energy still hasn’t done enough to strengthen its cybersecurity protections, exposing critical systems to compromise and putting data at risk, according to a report issued last month by the agency’s inspector general. The agency has received failing grades for its cyber­security efforts in each of the past five years.

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  • Hacked by my host! Be Careful!

    So, basically, I got hacked by my own host. No, it wasn’t a mistake. No, the server didnâ??t just go down. They hacked it so that they could upsell me on some $2000 security audit and package! So here is the evidence.

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  • theBroken part4?

    Double D is rolling a *”burrito sized Mummy” with Kevin Rose trying to get him to do the next broken episode.  This is the type of irreverance of all things holy that fans have come to expect from theBroken.   

    With complicated xbox 360 hacks and illegal cell phone jamming techniques it is no wonder it took the Broken 2 years to put out a new episode.  Dub and K_rose filter about a score of 40s though their shriveled young livers to the background gansta of Ice Cube, NWA and Dr. Dre.  Perhaps it is best that they don’t do regular episodes as the Broken could land them in jail or in the hospital. 

    It is an incredible concept.  Jackass meets Defcon.  One of my personal favorites is Ramzi.  He is hilarious.  Where did they meet this guy?  The outakes were also very entertaining. 

    Hopefully, next years thebroken will be just as deficient of morals. 

     

    *burrito sized mummy – a giNORMOUS joint.  Slanquage coined from the ambassador of the bay, e-40.

  • Pirates Vs. Ninjas

    PIRATES 

    A pirates mission statement is to rape and pillage.  They steal as a way of life.  Morals and values be damn.  A pirate would steal from his own mother if she left her guard down.  He would take advantage of his sister if she had the booty.  New pirates really don’t appreciate anything.  Some pirates steal because they really do appreciate a quality product.  Some of these pirates are activists for individual freedom.  They live by the code and freedom of the sea/nature.  To them ownership and property is an illusion created by man.  These are the most devious types of pirates who usually end up being captains of ships full of pirates.  If these pirates ever get caught it will usually be too late because they will have already exploited, liquidated and stolen so much that most assets they have pilfered will never be recovered.  Furthermore, they are probably completely beyond being rehabilitation by external means such as torture, imprisonment or indoctrination into high society.

     

    NINJAS

    A ninja, on the other hand, lives and dies by a code because of this they can be very dangerous.  They have a certain belief that they are willing to kill for.  Assassination is what the ninja is trained to do.  They sneak in silently, make the kill and get out quickly without a trace.  A great ninja will only be detected by the absence of evidence.  You will only know that they were there if they want you to know.  To the untrained eye, the ninja’s target died of natural causes.  The ninja’s skill is a thing of deadly grace and beauty like a black widow spider.  The especially good ninjas have an almost spiritual code and mental discipline that gives them seemingly supernatural powers.  To the lay person, ninjas don’t exist, they are just ancient legends.  If someone brags about being a ninja they are more than likely NOT a ninja.  A ninja is so close to the edge that they are love, hated and feared by those who know they exist.  Contrary to popular belief, not all ninja’s are evil.  Some ninja’s are mercenaries, some ninjas only kill bad guys, some ninja don’t kill at all… but they could if they wanted to.     Â