IT Blogwatch – Its IT Blogwatch: in which a MacBook Air gets hacked in a hacking competition (for hackers). Not to mention how to make dangerous-looking paper airplanes…
Robert McMillan McReports:
It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conferences [...] read more
Securitybloginfosec.com – If politics is a contact sport, why do I expect that we will not hear the political argument, “If You Can’t Protect Your Website, How Can You Protect The Country?” Why do I think that is it unlikely to be used as a valid political attack in the public discourse within our current US election?
It seems to me that the main reason politicians stay away from using hacking as a political weapon is the ease at which it may be used against them at some point in the future. Politicians can’t change their public voting record, their former associations or last night’s speech (i.e., the past), but their website could be hacked in the future.
Imagine this scenario: candidate A gets hacked. Candidate B makes [...] read more
Cyber Cynic – Security people can talk until theyre blue in the face about the dangers of unsecured Windows PCs and how they can be used in botnets. Does anyone listen?
Well, it sure doesnt seem like it some days. Perhaps this Botnet map from CSO will help get the message across. [...] read more
4sysops – For Windows Administrators – I have been asked to write an article about the Windows Vista vs. XP issue for the German magazine Computerwoche. They translated an InfoWorld article by Randall C. Kennedy which is one of the best Vista bashing articles I read so far. After reading it, I was attracted by the challenge to defend the Vista pro stance. I agree with some of Kennedy’s views, but quite a few of his claims distort the real picture, in my view. [...] read more
