According to this article on Wired hotel IT security is apalling in general. An Excerpt: A vulnerability in many hotel television infrared systems can allow a hacker to obtain guests’ names and their room numbers from the billing system. It can also let someone read the e-mail of guests who use web mail through the [...]
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Goverment Servers For Sale Without Deleted Data
July 31st, 2005 · No Comments · Privacy, Security
It seems that if you’re lucky and buy 2nd hand computer equipment from you local goverment, you may get more than you bargained for: Early last week eighteen IBM RS/6000 E20 servers went up for sale at an government auction for ~$20 AUD a server, anyway after a couple days they were delivered and I [...]
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Your Cellphone Tells All About Your Life
July 29th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Mobiles & Gadgets, Privacy, Security
Bruce Schneier has written a disturbing piece on how your cellphone could literally give out all sorts of information about your life to dataminers: Eagle’s Realty Mining project logged 350,000 hours of data over nine months about the location, proximity, activity and communication of volunteers, and was quickly able to guess whether two people were [...]
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Build Your Own Wardriving Box
July 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, OpenBSD, Security
Some dude has written a HOWTO on making your own small portable wardriving box with Soekris / WRAP & OpenBSD: it’s very easy, but this is not a step by step HOWTO, only a guide to build your own box. To start, you need a small up and running OpenBSD System on an Intel based [...]
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Gary McKinnon Interviewed
July 25th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Freedom & Democracy, Security
The BBC World Service has an interesting interview with Gary McKinnon, who hacked into Military computers to find out the truth about UFOs and now faces 75 years in an American jail: This week ‘The Interview’ talks to the man described by US prosecutors as “the biggest military computer hack of all time”. Briton Gary [...]
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Do You Know Where That Memory Stick’s Been?
July 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Security
Yet again Microsoft Windows security is in the spotlight as it seems that the whole USB codebase is inherently insecure. At least this is what eweek says: Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive [...]
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Interview With Marcus Ranum
June 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Security
Securityfocus has an interesting interview with Marcus Ranum (he’s done many things, including inventing the proxy server). An excerpt: It’s not a technology problem, it’s a management problem. There are plenty of tools that can be used to control inter-host trust, but they are generally not used because they’re “too hard” or “inconvenient” or whatever. [...]
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Message storm knocks NYSE offline
June 8th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Security
After a communications glitch the New York Stock Exchange was forced to close 4 minutes early last Wednesday (1 June): The New York Stock Exchange is re-examining its network after it was forced to close four minutes early at 3:56pm on Wednesday (1 June) because of a communications glitch. Trading opened on time (09:30 EDT) [...]
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UK Hacker In Deep Shit
June 8th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Paranormal, Security
The BBC reports of a UK hacker who’s about to be extradited to the US on some serious charges: A British man who allegedly hacked into US military and Nasa computer networks has been arrested, say Scotland Yard. Gary McKinnon, 39, of Wood Green, north London, faces extradition proceedings over claims he hacked into 53 [...]
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Attack Trends: 2004 and 2005 – According to Schneier
June 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Security
Mr. Schneier has written a piece on his blog about the kind of attacks his company has monitored this past year: Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., monitors more than 450 networks in 35 countries, in every time zone. In 2004 we saw 523 billion network events, and our analysts investigated 648,000 security “tickets.” What follows is [...]
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