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A que famosos se parecen tus amigos? (Celebrity photo match for your friends)
It sounds like a fun application – scanning your friends profile photos and then matching them with the celbrity that they most closely resemble. If only it actually worked… It starts with a friend’s...
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What is i^i?
What is ii? That's easy enough to figure out. What's slightly more difficult to understand is why I get asked questions like this. Something about giving answers, I suppose. In any event, for any...
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IBM: One Bit, Twelve Atoms
via the IBM Almaden Research Center located in San Jose, California comes atomic scale data storage, with the resultant 1 bit of data, residing within a 12 atom construct. The research team, comprised...
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Nitrozac and Snaggy: Cry Havoc
via the Sarcastic Genius of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech™
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[Honeypot Alert] phpMyAdmin Superglobal Session Manipulation Attack Detected
Our web honeypots have identified attempts to exploit CVE-2011-2505. OSVDB lists the vulnerabilty as - phpMyAdmin libraries/auth/swekey/swekey.auth.lib.php Swekey_login() Function Superglobal Session...
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Flashback to 2011: another recurring Trojan…
…not to mention more XProtect updates. While the tussle between Apple (trying to keep their minimal antivirus utility up-to-date with a current threat) and the people behind OSX/Flashback (releasing...
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Effective password testing using Metasploit
Software vulnerabilities receive most of the limelight in network security, but weak, shared, and mismanaged passwords are often the biggest threat to most organizations.
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F-Secure’s summary of 2011 Mac Malware
F-Secure have published details of the OS X malware the company has been tracking in the last three quarters of 2011. Fifty-eight instances, according to the blog post at Mac Malware Summary 2011...
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2012 Has Delivered Her First Giant Data Breach
This weekend, Amazon’s Zappos.com revealed that they had fallen victim to a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of 24 million customers. It’s the same story we’ve heard over and...
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Free PureCloud Scan for Five IPs in Spiceworks
We've got a great promotion in Spiceworks. Scan up to five IPs with nCircle PureCloud and get complete vulnerability reports, a $225 value. You can ind more information here. But hurry, this offer is...
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Android – meet NSA/SELinux lockdown
National Security Agency’s (NSA) SE Linux team, citing “critical gaps in the security of Android”, is building a Security Enhanced (SE) version of the publicly available source code for the Android...
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Israeli hackers respond
An Israeli hacker group, IDF-Team (not to be confused with the actual Israeli Defense Force), responded to recent hacks of El-Al and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by returning the favour to the Saudi...
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Evolution of online attacks mirrors the history of advertising
Similarities continue as we see more targeted, personalized attacks
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Monitoring pastebin.com within your SIEM
(Source: pastebin.com) For those who (still) don’t know pastebin.com, it’s a website mainly for developers. Its purpose is very simple: You can “paste” text on the website to share it with other...
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All Out Cyber War – A brief analysis of the middle-eastern cyber conflict
It's all out cyber-war, and everyone is at war with everyone else if you read the headlines. Israel, Saudi Arabia, and a whole host of countries are getting into what is a very dangerous dance all...
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‘MegaSearch’ Aims to Index Fraud Site Wares
A new service in the cyber underground aims to be the Google search of underground Web sites, connecting buyers to a vast sea of shops that offer an array of dodgy goods and services, from stolen...
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Keep your ATM Pin Secret and use SMS transaction alerts
Many of us may share our ATM pin with a close family membe,r but when we expand the community to include drivers, close friends, strangers who we ask for assistance at ATM kiosks, and even write the...
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Carberp Steals e-cash Vouchers from Facebook Users
Recently, we came across a new configuration of the Carberp Trojan that targets Facebook users to commit financial fraud. Unlike previous Facebook attacks designed to steal user credentials from the...
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