Monthly Archives for January 2006
Microsoft Tricks Hacker Into Jail
A company sting operation earns a Connecticut man two years in prison for selling secret Windows source code for $20 after it leaked onto the internet. read more | digg story
InfoSec Career Hacking: Social Engineering For Profit
A technical guide to landing a job in the InfoSec field. Do you analyze every packet that crosses your home network just because you can? Do you spend countless hours coding for sheer joy? Do you have a “DEFCON/Black Hat … Continue reading
TorPark: Anonymous browsing on a USB drive
If you're serious about online privacy, you probably already anonymize your browsing sessions at home, but what about when you sit down at an Internet cafe or public terminal where your decidedly non-anonymous use could be tracked back to you? … Continue reading
GMails Spam filters failing
While Gmail managers to filter out a lot of Spam, it seems lots of blatant Spam emails are getting through the filters, despite masses of the mails getting reported as Spam. read more | digg story
Slurp.exe Exposes Threat Of Portable Storage Devices
By simply connecting a device running Slurp.exe 2.0 to a PC via USB, firewire or Bluetooth, the “PodSlurping” application enables a device to quickly copy (in less than two minutes) all business documents (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .htm, .xml, .txt, etc.). … Continue reading
Boston Area Librarian Tells FBI: Want My Computers? Get a Warrant!
This is from Digg. The FBI got a tip on possible terrorist act to occur at a university. They traced the source of the threat to a Boston library. The library told the FBI to come back with a warrant … Continue reading
How to make a thief regret stealing your laptop
Software that spies on thieves to determine and report their identity. read more | digg story
Can Google's Search Engine Find Profits?
What a stupid question. Yet it was asked on June 13, 1999 around the time with Mr. Page and Mr. Brin got a $25 Million to start up Google. Great throwback! It hilarious because google now has over $8 Bill … Continue reading
Big Publishing Group demands my domain
I registered deusto.com in 1997. Now, eight years later, Planeta Agostini, one of the biggest publishing groups in Spain and owner of Ediciones Deusto, sends me letters demanding me to transfer them the domain, because they registered the trademark “deusto” … Continue reading
To Dan Glickman
Dan Glickman, As former Director of the Institute of Politics located at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and former Secretary of Agriculture, I must assume that you are a very rational (obviously) well educated and disciplined man. … Continue reading