Robert Lemos

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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A Russian site has somehow gotten the transcript of my interview with the Dream Coders Team, the developers of MPack, and posted them. In fact, they scooped my own posting at SecurityFocus, posting apparently the day of the first interview I had on June 20 (June 21, Russian time) and then updating the following day. [...]

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I let my key lapse last month, so I apologize to anyone that has been trying to contact me. Feel free to use the new one, which can be found here.

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A great story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle about a woman who happen to see the thief who had stolen her identity six months before. The woman, Karen Lodrick, followed and then, when she was found out, chased the thief through San Francisco.

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The Phoenix New Times has a good investigative piece on one of the co-founders of identity-protection firm Lifelock, Robert Maynard, Jr., who apparently has had a checkered past.

According to the piece, Maynard has filed for bankruptcy; he had to close down his previous company, a credit-repair service, after the federal government banned him from the [...]

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From the Somewhat-related-to-Chinese-gold-stealers department, there is a documentary being made about Chinese gold farmers in online games, such as World of Warcraft and Legacy, that looks phenomenal. The director, Ge Jin, is a PhD student in the Department of Communications at the University of California at San Diego and has already interviewed gold farmers in [...]

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Wired Magazine has a nice feature article on the Linkin Park cyberstalking incident, including extensive interviews with the private investigator involved and with the Linkin Park lead singer Chester Charlie Bennington and his wife.

The case hit the press last November, when investigators arrested a 29-year-old employee of Sandia National Labs for allegedly committing the crimes.

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If you read one thing today, make it this anonymous submission to the Washington Post from the president of a small Internet access company. The person, whose identity and claims the Washington Post confirmed, has taken the FBI to court for issuing a National Security Letter to him requesting information on a client.

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SCO’s in the news again: The would-be licensor of Linux is apparently subpoenaing Pamela Jones of Groklaw to reveal who she is. Coincidentally, Jones said she is taking a break from blogging due to health reasons on Saturday, yet someone else is still maintaining Groklaw posts. SCO contention is that Groklaw is a front for [...]

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So, your company’s been hit with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack involving a straight-up packet flood. Or, perhaps you’ve been hit by a distributed DoS launched from 10,000 bots controlled by an angry spammer. Or, if you are really (un)lucky, perhaps you got hit with a distributed reflective DoS attack and now need the services of [...]

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