Pinboard: bookmarks for ignatz tagged 'security'

Folk Models of Home Computer Security
security psychology malware sociology pdf
12 weeks ago by ignatz

Travel Security & Pants (Part 2) : 5.11 Tactical Jeans - Flying With Fish
tactical tacticalpants travel security
february 2012 by ignatz

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ROMANIAN CITIZEN ARRESTED FOR INSTALLING ATM “SKIMMING” DEVICES USED TO STEAL AT LEAST $1.5 MILLION FROM BANK CUSTOMERS
security usa fraud
january 2012 by ignatz

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Hacking the Square « cranklin.com
security creditcard
january 2012 by ignatz

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Underground call-centre for identity theft uncovered by security researchers

a call center that works for bad guys, filling in gaps in their info

risks security telecom idtheft doom ha
november 2011 by ignatz

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juuso/BozoCrack - GitHub

BozoCrack is a depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker ... googles the MD5 hash and hopes the plaintext appears somewhere on the first page of results

md5 crack security ruby google search hack
november 2011 by ignatz

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App Turns iPhone into spiPhone: Scientific American Podcast

One team of researchers used an iPhone to track typing on a nearby computer keyboard with up to 80 percent accuracy.

iphone security
october 2011 by ignatz

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Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey
security mac tracking opensource
september 2011 by ignatz

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How to steal $13 million from ATMs in a weekend
security failure commerce finance crime
august 2011 by ignatz

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Thousands lost in rising VoIP attacks - Security - News

SIP scanning attacks

voip security sip
november 2010 by ignatz

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Cities and citizenship; fake security and the real thing « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird

..."a progressive cordoning by way of which the right of free movement in cities is slowly replaced by a checkpoint mentality, the contours of public space are subtly conditioned by simulations of blast physics, and events like the Olympics or the G20 are used to field-test techniques and strategies of urban control that eventually make their way into everyday policing"

security sociology cityplanning urban oppression
july 2010 by ignatz

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pike Module

anti DOS module for the OpenSIPS SIP server

sip dos opensips voip security opensource
june 2010 by ignatz

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skipfish - Project Hosting on Google Code

web app security scanner, nessus replacement

security
may 2010 by ignatz

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Inscentinel

Inscentinel Ltd. is developing unique sensing instruments which utilise trained honeybees (Apis mellifera) to recognise and detect trace vapours.

bees science security safety madscience biology entomology
october 2009 by ignatz

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Kinebar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

gold bars authenticated with cool looking holograms

gold money hologram security art
october 2009 by ignatz

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Misdirected spyware infects Ohio hospital

guy trying to spy on his girlfriend instead causes malware outbreak in critical hospital equipment

risks security medicalrecords privacy spyware hospitals malware
september 2009 by ignatz

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One extra ampersand in code leads to IE exploit - Ars Technica

Sorry about the deadly ampersand.

security typos failure microsoft software engineering ampersand
july 2009 by ignatz

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iPhone Jailbreaking Could Crash Cellphone Towers, Apple Claims | Threat Level | Wired.com

Apple says you could cause phone Armageddon by jailbreaking your phone.

security apple iphone ha commerce failure jailbreak
july 2009 by ignatz

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Snooping through the power socket

Power sockets can be used to eavesdrop on what people type on a computer.

security news grid privacy doom oppression
july 2009 by ignatz

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PROXMARK.org

software tool for RFID test/crack hardware

rfid hacking software radio security
july 2009 by ignatz

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A Test Instrument for HF/LF RFID

This device can do almost anything involving almost any kind of low-(~125 kHz) or high-(~13.56 MHz) frequency RFID tag.

rfid diy hacking electronics radio security
july 2009 by ignatz

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Buggy 'smart meters' open door to power-grid botnet • The Register

New electricity meters being rolled out to millions of homes and businesses are riddled with security bugs that could bring down the power grid, according to a security researcher who plans to demonstrate several attacks at a security conference next month

infosec security infrastructure failure software energy network
june 2009 by ignatz

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joshua's blog: on url shorteners

url shortening services considered harmful

web standards security usability
april 2009 by ignatz

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Academic Claims to Find Sensitive Medical Info Exposed on Peer-to-Peer Networks | Threat Level from Wired.com

Among about 160 files that Johnson claims contained sensitive data (.pdf) were two spreadsheets containing information on 20,000 patients, which identified four patients being treated for HIV-AIDS, 326 patients being treated for cancer, 201 being treated for mental illnesses and thousands afflicted with various other diseases.

failure privacy medicine security p2p medicalrecords
march 2009 by ignatz

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Client data from mortgage broker found in trash

Folders with personal information for numerous clients of a local mortgage broker sat for days at a public recycling site, overflowing from the tops of several bins in an apparently glaring identity theft risk.

orangecounty failure commerce news privacy newportbeach security mortgage financialcollapse
february 2009 by ignatz

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Ten Most Important Security Incidents Involving Removable Devices | ThreatChaos

the top ten most important incidents regarding removable devices, including hardware keystroke loggers, USB thumb drives, and MP3 players

risks security tech devices infosec memorystick
february 2009 by ignatz

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Official Google Blog: "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?!

Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs.

failure ha security google search malware
january 2009 by ignatz

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Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown | Threat Level from Wired.com

Evil leftover cronjob might have made the financial crash way more fun

failure commerce finance security hacking mortgage logicbomb fnma
january 2009 by ignatz

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I-Hacked.com Taking Advantage Of Technology - Inside Programmable Road Signs

it's not too hard to change electronic road signs.

ha howto security pranks
january 2009 by ignatz

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Top 500 worst passwords - Boing Boing

list of common horrible passwords

failure ha security lists passwords
january 2009 by ignatz

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md5oogle - Md5 hash converter
tools sysadmin security hash md5 decode
november 2008 by ignatz

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Triple Canopy

Way scarier than Blackwater, just a lot less notorious.

war military pmc mercenaries security spook
october 2008 by ignatz

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More Internet Stupidity - Vox

"The U.S. government is trying to force DNSSEC on the root zone file. The idea here is that DNSSEC is the only "sure" way to close the DNS cache poisoning problem that Dan Kaminsky publicized earlier this year. There's one problem. It doesn't completely close the hole."

dns dnssec internet pki security
october 2008 by ignatz

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Sarah Palin Emails: Sarah Palin's Personal Emails

"Now comes word that Anonymous, the fun-loving Internet trouble-makers based loosely around the message board 4Chan, gained access to another Palin email account: gov.palin@yahoo.com." Funny whether it's true or not.

sarahpalin politics security email ha usa elections privacy
september 2008 by ignatz

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Gmail HTTPS Doesn't Protect Account, New Setting Does | Threat Level from Wired.com

tips for increased security with gmail

google security email gmail
august 2008 by ignatz

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Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue

bofh admin loses his shit; not so much a crime as an extreme case of sysadmin disease

bofh failure sysadmin security crime networking
august 2008 by ignatz

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