https://privnote.com/ lets you send notes that get destroyed after reading. Kind of like Mission Impossible orders.
This story started two weeks ago:
Amazon warns customers of infected digital photo frames Amazon.com has issued a warning to customers that the driver installation CD for a Samsung digital frame sold until earlier this month may contain malware. Read more...
Monday, December 29, 2008 12:40 PM
Windows Media Player crash not exploitable for code execution
On Christmas Day, the MSRC opened a case tracking a Bugtraq-posted POC describing a “malformed WAV,SND,MID file which can lead to a remote integer overflow”. By Saturday evening, we saw reputable internet sources claiming this bug could lead to executing arbitrary code on the system.
We investigated right away and found that this bug cannot be leveraged for arbitrary code execution.
ERIC SAYS: Yeah, right... for now!
Verizon wins $31M judgment in cybersquatting case
Verizon had accused OnlineNIC of registering at least 663 domain names identical or confusingly similar to Verizon trademarks. The domain names listed in the complaint, filed June 6, included Verizon-cellular.com and Buyverizon.net.
Fake Christmas, holiday greetings spread new malware
Georgia man sentenced for bribery in Atlanta Public Schools tech case
In 1998, Scott and other school district employees recommended that Multimedia Communications and related companies be awarded E-Rate contracts. Then, beginning in late 2000 and continuing for about two years, Harris paid M&S Consulting, a business partnership between Scott and his wife, Evelyn Myers Scott, more than $230,000 for favorable treatment in receiving E-Rate and other school district business, the DOJ said.
Microsoft kicks fake security software off 400,000 PCs
Shoplifting on the Rise in Bad Economy
Gunpowder Is Okay to Bring on an Airplane
Putting it in a clear plastic baggie magically makes it safe:
Mind you, I had packed the stuff safely. It was in three separate jars: one of charcoal, one of sulphur, and one of saltpetre (potassium nitrate). Each jar was labeled: Charcoal, Sulphur, Saltpetre. I had also thoroughly wet down each powder with tap water. No ignition was possible. As a good citizen, I had packed the resulting pastes into a quart-sized "3-1-1" plastic bag, along with my shampoo and hand cream. This bag I took out of my messenger bag and put on top of my bin of belongings, turned so that the labels were easy for the TSA inspector to read.
Posted on December 29, 2008 at 7:05 AM
The New York Times reports that the soon-to-be-disbanded Bush / Cheney White House threatens to overload the National Archives with close to 100 Terabytes of data. This includes the Barney Cam and even 'formats not previously dealt with.' By way of comparison, the Clinton White House dumped less than a single terabyte into the archives.
$2-Million Texas Surveillance System Nets 500 Lbs of Pot
A new $2-million citizen surveillance system installed along the Tex-Mex border has yielded just one crime bust after about six weeks in operation -- three suspects who were allegedly caught hauling 540 pounds of marijuana over the border after someone spotted them online, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The expensive system of 13 closed-circuit cameras placed along the Rio Grande -- which is billed as a "virtual stakeout" for "virtual deputies" -- involves images from the cameras that are streamed online. Members of the public are invited to serve as "virtual deputies" by watching the images and reporting any suspicious activity they see.
Chinese schools, search sites host malicious codeNews Brief, 2008-12-29
Two universities and two major search portals in China fall prey to attackers, who compromised the sites to host programs that attack online visitors.
29 December 2008Cracks in the iPhone security architecture at 25C3
Members of the iPhone Dev hacker team offered a glimpse of their ongoing work to get around the SIM lock on Apple's smartphone more…
Researchers Point Out XSS Flaws On American Express SiteDec 22,2008
Flaws could jeopardize users' identities, researchers say
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