Monday, May 12, 2014

Education is not a function of any church — or even of a city — or a state; it is a function of all mankind. ~ Philip Wylie



I believe this....We are are all moral agents responsible for our own behavior....f'n own it pussy's
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Wiktionary's word of the day:

deskfast:
Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.........
now get back to work you bunch of hungry f'n slaves
  kosmicblowback






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*** Security News ***

GE patches gap in infosec capabilities with Wurldtech buy
SCADA bug-hunter slurped to secure the 'Industrial Internet'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/12/ge_patches_gap_in_capabilities_with_infosec_buy/

Hey, does your Smart TV have a mic? Enjoy your surveillance, bro
Little reminder: Your shiny new telly is a computer, it can run malware
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/10/smarttv_bugging/

Point DNS blitzed by mystery DDoS assault
DNS flood washes over company servers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/09/point_dns_ddos/

Don't fret over SOHO routers and Heartbleed. But yeah, there's LOADS to
fear on home kit
If OpenSSL bug doesn't get you ... SOMETHING ELSE might
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/09/heartbleed_home_networks_all_clear/

Moshtix admin account popped by party-pooper hipster-hating hacker
422 big spenders thought huge $1,000 festival fees were par for the
course
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/09/moshtix_admin_account_popped_by_partypooper_skids/

Oh aye, a mobe grumble-flick player? No – it's a 'droid ransomware
nasty
Yet another trojan targets pr0n-viewers with false data scrambling
threat
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/09/android_ransomware/

Silly sysadmins ADDING Heartbleed to servers
'Heartbroken' admins add to problem of myriad unpatched boxen
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/09/unpatched_failboxes_see_thousands_join_heartbleed_club/

Bitly shortens life of users' passwords after credential compromise
OAuth tentacles mean it's time to change ANOTHER password
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/09/bitly_shortens_life_of_users_passwords_after_credential_compromise/

Apple: We'll tell users when the Feds come looking for their data
Except in certain cases
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/08/apple_well_tell_users_when_the_feds_come_looking_for_their_data/

That NAKED SELFIE you sent on Snapchat? You may be seeing it again
Mobile firm pays up over data collection chicanery, accepts 20-year
watchdogging
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/08/ftc_strikes_snapchat_settlement_in_snapshotsaving_security_spat/

Net tech bods at IETF mull anti-NSA crypto-key swaps in future SSL
'Perfect example of how Snowden has improved our privacy' says
professor
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/08/rsa_depreciated_from_tls/

Traffic light vulns leave doors wide open to Italian Job-style hacks
Never mind blowing the bloody doors off, what about screwing up the
rush hour?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/08/traffic_control_system_vuln_paves_way_italian_job_style_hacks/

McAfee accused of McSlurping Open Source Vulnerability Database
Lawyers say security giant should have paid before it unleashed
slurping scripts
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/08/whats_copyright_mcafee_mcslurps_vuln_database/

Orange France hacked AGAIN, 1.3 million victims seeing red
Phishers' delight as names, D.O.Bs and phone numbers pinched
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/08/orange_france_hacked_13_million_seeing_red/

Samsung's NX300 cam is bad in bed: Snatch victims' pics over the air
Flaky X server, NFC and Wi-Fi implementations all make for p0wnable
pics
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/08/samsung_nx300_security_review/

BTC MaaS (mining-as-a-service) preps DC pods down under
Can't build, can't steal? Now you can RENT your miner
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/08/bc_maas_miningasaservice_preps_dc_pods_in_melbourne/

Securo-borg FireEye coughs $70m to buy 'flight-recorder-for-networks'
tech
First Mandiant, now nPulse - whatever will it swallow next?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/07/fireeye_buys_network_forensics_flight_recorder_tech/

Web cesspit 4chan touts '$20 bug bounty' after hackers ruin Moot's day
Founder's admin account hijacked, then loses Amazon keys to 'Bitcoin'
bandit
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/07/4chan_bounty/

Look out, sysadmins - HOT FOREIGN SPIES are targeting you
Agents are greasing up IT bods to access all areas, warns MI5
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/07/mi5_warning_foreign_spies_targeting_it_workers/

Solaris deposed as US drone-ware, replaced by Linux administration
Death from above brought to you by the happy, peaceful world of open
source
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/07/solaris_deposed_as_us_droneware_replaced_by_linux_administration/

Slow IPv6 adoption is a GOOD THING as IETF plans privacy boost
New 'SLAAC' RFC aims to do a better job of hiding hosts
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/07/rfc_offers_better_privacy_for_ipv6_hosts/

ANZ Bank coughs up as Broome biz fleeced in man-in-the-middle diddle
Bank's Pay Anyone tool pays fraudsters
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/07/broome_biz_fleeced_in_maninthemiddle_diddle/

Dropbox squashes boring bug, restores file sharing
Web admins could have read your docs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/07/dropbox_squashes_boring_bug_restores_file_sharing/

Watch a bank-raiding ZeuS bot command post get owned in 60 seconds
RC4? Shoddy PHP coding? You VXers should try a little harder
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/06/zeus_pwned_in_60_seconds/

Don't let hackers know Mandiant founder checks his email on an iPad.
Oh.
Mandia prefers face-to-face natter to avoid piles of spyware
booby-traps
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/06/mandia_infosec_interview/

Hacktivists hijack BNP Twitter account, crayon over leader Griffin's
too
I'm the leader of the Gay Orgy Party and we just LOVE immigration,
guys. Mwah!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/06/hacktivists_hijack_bnp/

Scariest NSA revelation yet: Spooks are RUBBISH at CIPHERS
'Encrypted' Tweet takes world+dog a moment or two to solve
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/06/the_scariest_nsa_revelation_yet_rubbish_ciphers/

Casino chain Affinity's credit card system popped AGAIN
The house doesn't always win
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/06/hax0rs_pop_us_casino_chain_again_but_forensics_say_cards_safe/

Symantec: Antivirus is 'DEAD' – no longer 'a moneymaker'
Oh, and it's still 40 per cent of our business
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/06/symantec_antivirus_is_dead_and_not_a_moneymaker/

McAfee chap is back in crypto-wrap chat app back flap
Claims airtight messaging security for tap-happy youth
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/05/john_mcafee_chadder/

HALF of London has outdated Wi-Fi security, says roving World of War,
er, BIKER
And a third simply don't bother with secured networks at all
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/05/london_warbiking_lax_security/

You'll hate Google's experimental Chrome UI, but so will phishers
What do you want: Better security or long URLs?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/05/chrome_origin_chip_ui_controversy/
































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