Here's How Law Enforcement Cracks Your iPhone's Security Code (Video) - Forbes

When Jayson E. Street broke into the branch office of a national bank in May of last year, the branch manager could not have been more helpful. Dressed like a technician, Street walked in and said he was there to measure “power fluctuations on the power circuit.” To do this, he’d need to plug a small white device that looked like a power adapter onto the wall. The power fluctuation story was total bullshit, of course. Street had been hired by the bank to test out security at 10 of its West Coast branch offices. He was conducting what’s called a penetration test. This is where security experts pretend to be bad guys in order to spot problems. More: The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com)
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When Jayson E. Street broke into the branch office of a national bank in May of last year, the branch manager could not have been more helpful. Dressed like a technician, Street walked in and said he was there to measure “power fluctuations on the power circuit.” To do this, he’d need to plug a small white device that looked like a power adapter onto the wall. The power fluctuation story was total bullshit, of course. Street had been hired by the bank to test out security at 10 of its West Coast branch offices. He was conducting what’s called a penetration test. This is where security experts pretend to be bad guys in order to spot problems.

More: The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com)

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The ad, clipped from one of the national Pakistani newspapers today (it apparently ran in all of them), seeks bids for a national censoring firewall: “Each box should be able to handle a block list of up to 50 million URLs (concurrent unidirectional filtering capacity) with processing delay of not more than 1 milliseconds.” (via Pakistani newspaper ad seeks bids for a Great Firewall of Pakistan - Boing Boing)
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The ad, clipped from one of the national Pakistani newspapers today (it apparently ran in all of them), seeks bids for a national censoring firewall: “Each box should be able to handle a block list of up to 50 million URLs (concurrent unidirectional filtering capacity) with processing delay of not more than 1 milliseconds.” (via Pakistani newspaper ad seeks bids for a Great Firewall of Pakistan - Boing Boing)

Source: Boing Boing

Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write | Nerdling Sapple

Today’s XKCD, “Password Strength,” neatly illustrates the research from this paper (PDF) by Philip Inglesant and M. Angela Sasse from University College London, with the ironic conclusion that we’ve trained our users to use passwords that computers can easily guess and humans can’t possibly remember. (via boingboing.net)
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Today’s XKCD, “Password Strength,” neatly illustrates the research from this paper (PDF) by Philip Inglesant and M. Angela Sasse from University College London, with the ironic conclusion that we’ve trained our users to use passwords that computers can easily guess and humans can’t possibly remember.

(via boingboing.net)

Source: xkcd.com

A message to PayPal, from Anonymouse, LulzSec and AntiSec

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Hackers took control of an official Fox News Twitter account and posted false updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. (via Fox News hackers claim Barack Obama assassinated - Telegraph)
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Hackers took control of an official Fox News Twitter account and posted false updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. (via Fox News hackers claim Barack Obama assassinated - Telegraph)

Source: telegraph.co.uk

WordPress.org hacked, plugin repository compromised

PlanetLab creates a more advanced sudo

Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys, that will offer administrators far greater control over what end users can and can’t access.

While in principle unbreakable, quantum cryptography is known to have weaknesses in practice. One shortcoming has now been graphically illustrated by physicists in Singapore and Norway, who have been able to copy a secret quantum key without revealing their presence to either sender or receiver. The researchers are now working to remove the loophole they have exposed. (via Hackers steal quantum code - physicsworld.com)
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While in principle unbreakable, quantum cryptography is known to have weaknesses in practice. One shortcoming has now been graphically illustrated by physicists in Singapore and Norway, who have been able to copy a secret quantum key without revealing their presence to either sender or receiver. The researchers are now working to remove the loophole they have exposed. (via Hackers steal quantum code - physicsworld.com)

Source: physicsworld.com

Skype protocol reverse engineered, source available for download

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