World of Warcraft fingered in iPod aircraft terror alert | The Register
A World of Warcraft aficionado travelling from Chicago to Canada earlier this month to hook up with fellow gamers sparked an airborne terror alert after accidently flushing his iPod down the toilet.
A short report in the Ottawa Citizen states: “A suspicious package found in [...]
I decided to try a new toy that was recently released. You’ll notice it in the sidebar. What it is, is the Meebo Chat Applet. A cross network web based chat client they added support for you to embed into a website on top of already supporting MSN, AIM, YAHOO, GTALK [...]
I’ve just installed the Bad Behavior Plugin. Viperbond kept speaking so highly about it, and when he noted that they just released version 2 I went ahead and tracked it down.
In talking to him he had noted that it had dropped his spam load by the hundreds. I’m not getting that many, but [...]
Scanning USENET for Steganography
After scanning two million images from eBay without finding any hidden messages, we extended the scope of our analysis. A detailed description of the detection framework can be found in Detecting Steganographic Content on the Internet.
This page provides details about the analysis of one million images from the Internet Archive’s USENET archive.
Processing [...]
Google — Our Favorite Search Engine Becomes a Virus Scanner @ Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech
Using a little known capability of Google’s search engine, security vendor Websense has written tools that have found thousands of websites hosting hacking tools, as well as many legitimate sites that have been hacked. This capability is [...]
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Hackers hit 700 Israeli Web sites
JERUSALEM - Hundreds of Israeli Web sites were shut down by pro-Palestinian hackers as Israeli troops invaded southern Gaza after the abduction of an Israeli soldier, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.
The Jerusalem Post said about 700 Web sites were shut down early Wednesday. Their home pages were replaced by the [...]
Look by yourself - this is how citibank.com cares about phishing and password theft. I reported it 20 hours ago. Nothing happened. Maybe it’s time to make it public? It is an active link to working exploit, ready to send YOUR data from citibank.com domain to attacker’s server - so dont give your real login [...]
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Defense Department Releases September 11 Pentagon Video to Judicial Watch
Department of Defense Responds to Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act Request and Related Lawsuit
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that Department of Defense released a videotape to Judicial Watch at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon that [...]
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Ubisoft officially dumps Starforce
Citing “complaints,” the publisher ends its relationship with the copyright-protection provider.
Following several days of rumors, Ubisoft has officially confirmed that it will no longer use the controversial digital-rights software from Starforce. “Ubisoft has decided to use an alternative copy protection system to Starforce for upcoming releases,” said a rep for the company. [...]
RFID tags vulnerable to viruses, study says - Computerworld
Three computer science researchers are warning that viruses embedded in radio tags used to identify and track goods are right around the corner, a danger that so far has been overlooked by the industry’s high interest in the technology.
No viruses targeting radio frequency identification (RFID) technology have [...]
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