12 month ago
deusx : DIY Freaks Flock to 'Hacker Spaces' Worldwide | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - "At the center of this community are hacker spaces like Noisebridge, where like-minded geeks gather to work on personal projects, learn from each other and hang out in a nerd-friendly atmosphere. Like artist collectives in the '60s and '70s
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23 month ago
nelson : Maker Faire this weekend - Terrible website, but the Faire is in San Mateo this weekend
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28 month ago
Andy Baio : Inside the "Ron Paul" Spam Botnet - doesn't explain who paid to send the spams, but a great glimpse into how spambots operate [via]
nelson : Tracing a spam botnet - Excellent detailed account of tracing Ron Paul spam back into botnets and email spam services
Rod Begbie : Inside the 'Ron Paul' Spam Botnet - Research - SecureWorks - Interesting insight into the control interface for a spam-blasting botnet. [via] #
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29 month ago
deusx : computers should be less friendly » Blog Archive » Synthesizers - "They produce not only code but content, documentation, opinions — they care about what’s out there and what they are putting out there."
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40 month ago
deusx : Drivl.com | Top 20 Hackers in Film History - "Below you will find a list of the 20 coolest, funniest, dare I say sexiest hackers and computer geeks that have graced the silver screen."
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deusx : Drivl.com | What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies) - "Matt craps on a bunch of ridiculous ideas about programming and code that Hollywood can't seem to stay away from."
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: The Phone Stories: VOICEMAIL - "I remember the grey day, I remember the rain drizzling across the street and against the booth when I realized my box, my little teenage piece of the phone system, was gone forever."
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41 month ago
deusx : a random Gnome's random Lair: The Commodore 64 demoscene - "What follows, you see, is an amazing video compilation of some of the more impressive productions of the C64 demoscene."
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45 month ago
Andy Baio : Jason Scott's awesome deathbed dream - hmm, I should get some of those kidney stones just to have dreams like this
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Awesome - "But to Brain's likely great surprise, I did not die, but in fact woke up, enjoying the restful 3 hours of sleep I just got, amazed at what I'd just seen, and distracted, ever so much, from the horrible pain for a while."
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48 month ago
kayodeok : BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC used to entice cyber victims - People are being warned about spam e-mails containing BBC News stories designed to trick them into visiting malicious websites
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48 month ago
kayodeok : Hackers Use BBC News as IE Attack Lure - According to an alert issued by Websense Security Labs, in San Diego, excerpts from actual BBC News stories are being used to lure IE users to Web sites that launch drive-by downloads of bots, spyware, back doors and other Trojan downloaders
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50 month ago
kayodeok : Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 2 - Now in part two we finish the discussion by looking at how to own a malicious attacker's precious resources, which he planned to use against us, and then use these resources as a stepping stone to fully achieve our goals
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50 month ago
kayodeok : Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 1 - This article explores measures to attack those malicious attackers who seek to harm our legitimate systems. The proactive use of exploits and bot networks that fight other bot networks, along with social engineering and attacker techniques are all discuss
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50 month ago
kayodeok : Implementing and Detecting an ACPI BIOS Rootkit - Why target the BIOS?: (1). Survives Reboots and Power Cycles. (2). Leaves no trace on disk (3). Survives and reinfects installations of same OS (4). Survives and reinfects installations of new OS (5). Hard to detect (6). Hard to remove
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50 month ago
kayodeok : Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS - Insider attacks and industrial espionage could become more stealthy by hiding malicious code in the core system functions available in a motherboard's flash memory, researchers said on Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference
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51 month ago
kayodeok : Ports Associated with Known Vulnerabilities and Exploits - Our advisories, incident notes, and current activity often include information regarding services that have been targeted for exploitation. The following table lists services and ports that have been mentioned in documents we have published since August 1
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51 month ago
kayodeok : Anatomy Of A Hack - This chapter is excerpted from the book titled "Protect Your Windows Network: From Perimeter to Data" By Jesper Johansson, Steve Riley, published by Addison-Wesley Professional
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kayodeok : Wireless Hacking At 30,000 Feet - Without a Wireless Network!
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52 month ago
kayodeok : Cgisecurity.com: Cross Site Scripting questions and answers - Cross site scripting (also known as XSS) occurs when a web application gathers malicious data from a user. The data is usually gathered in the form of a hyperlink which contains malicious content within it. The user will most likely click on this link fro
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55 month ago
deusx : THE.SCENE - "NYU student Brian has a secret: He and his friends pirate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illicit Hollywood movies in their spare time."
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55 month ago
kayodeok : Hacking Network Printers (Mostly HP JetDirects, but a little info on the Ricoh Savins) - This article will attempt to point out some of the more interesting things that can be done with a network based printer to make it reveal information about its users, owners and the network it's part of
Matthew M. Boedicker : hacking network printers
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55 month ago
kayodeok : The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security - Let me introduce you to the six dumbest ideas in computer security. What are they? They're the anti-good ideas. They're the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers
Simon Willison : The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security - Thought provoking.
Eric Meyer : The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security - Indeed, quite a bit of thought was provoked. [via Simon] [via]
Milo Vermeulen : The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security [via]
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56 month ago
kayodeok : Wired News: Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs - That future may already be unfolding: Hackers have found a way to bypass a chip designed to prevent the Mac OS from running on non-Apple PCs, which are often cheaper than Macs
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56 month ago
kayodeok : Flexbeta - Wireless Data Transmission Security - The main purpose of our paper is to describe the various forms of wireless data transmission and to address the security concerns in each
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56 month ago
kayodeok : USB devices can become hardware-based Trojans - SPI Dynamics security engineers David Dewey and Darrin Barrall have revealed a hack where full data compromise can be achieved in less than 10 seconds of physical access
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