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Entries from May 2008

Hired gun blamed for business outage

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Video-content firm Revision3 accuses anti-piracy company MediaDefender — known for its aggressive tactics against file sharers — of attacking its servers over the weekend.
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Legal experts wary of MySpace hacking charges

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Federal prosecutors charge the parent who allegedly badgered a girl to suicide with three counts of computer crime, but law experts worry about a dangerous precedent.
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Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Normally considered a low-level threat on the Internet, scans for default-configured secure shell servers spiked this week.
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Hack to the Future…

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments

As those who still manage to wade through the daily flames on Full Disclosure found out this weekend, the boys over at ZD0 managed to get access to the Administrator account on my blog. They posted the passwd file including the usernames and MD5 password hashes for about a score of users in the latest [...]

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Groups warn travelers to limit laptop data

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

In a letter to Congress, nearly three dozen organizations protest the seizures of electronic devices by U.S. customs officials, an act upheld by a federal appeals court in a recent ruling.
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Tags: Consumer Tech · Government · Homeland Security · Privacy · SecurityFocus