“The world’s largest software maker is suing the developer of a program that allows users to circumvent digital rights protection from Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio (WMA) song format.”
If your going to be a pirate, you better develop your ninja skills. A ninja is in and out fast. You never see them coming because they have the element of surprise. Most importantly, you can absolutely never find their tracks because they so good at covering them.
This tutorial will take you step-by-step through setting up your PC and Webcam to act as a motion-detecting and recording security camera system. And the software required to do this is open source (free).
“Social networking sites offer hackers a rich trove of potential victims and many opportunities to exploit them.”
Just when you thought you had over 100 myspace friends and everything was great, you might want to double check who you “add as a friend” some of them maybe viruses.
“Scammers are many things but it would seem lazy prose writing is their latest crime against humanity. Must try harder… that’s this man of letters’ damning verdict on 419ers’ literary efforts, as he counts down the top five crap scams to limp into his inbox of late… For shame!”
Most of the 419 scammers are third world idiots. Just check out sites like ebola monkey man. These scammers are very easy to scam. They deserve it.
David Prager Proclaims On TWiT, “Its Done, Its Done, Its Done!”. Looks Like The Two+ Year Wait Will Finally Be Over.
WTF. its about TIME!
For Government workers doing any kind of computer security/information assurance, the new regulation, DOD 8570 is a very important document.
DOD 8570, Information Assurance Training, Certification and Workforce Management, requires that all government workers (active duty, govt civilian and contractors) doing security work have a security certification. The DoD is really trying to crack down on security.
Among the top security certification that you can get are the CISSP and the CISA
Getting the top certs and then further specializing could give you the edge. For example, CISSP with an CISA (auditor) would cover a lot of ground as would a CISA and an IDS/C&A/Architecture specialists. It would really kick ass to cover ALL ground. This would not be difficult. Not sure if each specialization would require further certifications.
Cost, Renown, Difficulty Comparisons:http://dmiessler.com/writing/infoseccerts/
Includes: GSEC, CISSP, CISA*note: GSEC is $800 and difficult
Security Certs and their levels according to 8570:http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/01/dod-directive-8570.html
Tech level I-III & Management Level I-III*note: GSEC is Tech level II
Future Areas of IA Certification:
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Certification and Accreditation
IDS and Analysts
Auditors
CND/SP members
IA architectures, engineers
(slide 10)On a recent FISC slide I saw Red team (pentesting/hacking) among these future specializations.
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**Technology On Crack once again provides a Top 10 countdown focusing this time on keeping your information from prying eyes. What makes these freely available applications interesting is that 9/10 of them may be strong enough to help you avoid serious government organizations.**
Warning: The possession of such tools can destroy you if you ever find yourself in court. You are looking for Plausible deniability by destroying or hiding as much questionable data or actions as possible, but the very possesion of such tools can give you a WORSE sentencing than what you were originally charged for. (see Simple Nomad – www.nmrc.org/pub/pdtk/)
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**Typical “mainstream news looks into the world of wardriving by sending a reporter to do a ride along” article.**
I know some good wardrivers. I’ll have to do some serious work in this area soon.
Security Certs required for DoD security jobs: DoD 8570.1 will apply to anyone with privileged access (e.g., system administration) to DoD systems, to include uniformed military personnel, civilians, and contractors.
The infamous hack everyone is talking about. Malicious hacker used a untraceable prepaid debit card and a special code to trick the ATM into handing out 20’s when it is supposed to hand out 10’s or some other smaller amount.
Crafty.