OSCON: Energy + Awesome + Space Exploration + Hacking
I wanted to post these two keynotes from OSCON 2011. They really bring out the spirit of exploration, adventure, care, and doing things bigger than oneself. This is about doing things that go beyond the cat picture of the day. These presentations, well, I’ll let them speak for themselves. Absolutely great!
The Anonymous Press Release and Corporate Responsibility for Data
I am not a member of Anonymous, but anyone in the information security field has followed them over the last 18 months as they grew from a general idea to launching DDoS attacks against corporations that did something they did not like, or like in the case of HBGary, did things that were ill advised. [...]
Turn your IPod, Iphone or soon the Ipad into a hacker system
For all the complaints against apple for making it hard to get an application registered and sold in the Apple store, there are some very cool applications that can be used to set up your Iphone or other apple Iphone OS based system into an excellent scanning and pseudo hacker tool. These are the products [...]
Security issues with the iPad.com domain
As Apple prepares to amaze the world with their planned announcement today on whatever it is they are officially going to announce, I decided to take a look at the possible names for the device they are going to announce and see if I could get a sneak peek at the domains that might reflect [...]
I totally love Phishing when they are obviously juvenile
Well Ok I love it when Phishers are really being idiots, and yet another phising attempt fails to snare its intended victim, namely me, and namely because the phisher is being very stupid. I do a lot of shopping online so I am fairly sensitive to the loss of an account or someone trying to [...]
Twitter Hack Exposes Internal Company Documents
While there are issues with publishing information that someone got via a hacking attack, often at times the information can be useful in many ways. Over the weekend Techcrunch was sent an unsolicited e-mail from a hacker that contained over 300 internal Twitter documents, and an explanation on how the various accounts was hacked. Techcrunch [...]
