Posted 07/30/09 at 11:03:45 AM by Paul Lilly

Two high-profile security professionals -- security researcher Dan Kaminsky and former hacker Kevin Mitnick -- were targeted by hackers this week in what appears to be an attempt to call into question the duo's credibility right on the eve of the Black Hat and DefCon security conference.

"There are people who just live press release by press release," the hackers wrote in note posted on Kaminsky's website. "And on top of it all, somehow you STILL have not got rid of Kevin Mitnick. The industry cares about virtualization one year and iPhones the next, every year forgetting the lessons it should have picked up in the last."

The hackers also stole personal data and posted it online, which included private emails between Kaminsky and other security researchers, very personal chat logs, and a list of files Kaminsky downloaded that pertain to dating and other topics, Wired reports.

After discovering a flaw in the DNS protocol, Kaminsky received the Pwnie award for the "Most overhyped security vulnerability" at Black Hat 2008. Mitnick was once considered "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history" by the government but has been accused by some in the hacking community as living off a dated reputation.

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Posted 08/06/08 at 10:55:01 AM by Chris Moody

Malware is the vile scourge of the internet. It invades your privacy, tracking where you’ve been on the internet to sell to marketing companies interested in your browsing habits. It invades your computer, sending pop-ups for products you don’t want, or it tricks users into buying some bogus program to fix nonexistent problems with their PCs. It steals resources from your computer, taking up CPU time, RAM and drive space. Being a malware programmer must rank up there with pimp-meister for jobs that you don’t tell friends and family that you do.

It used to be that you would pickup malware from ending up on a bogus site someplace, but it turns out that it is coming from almost everywhere now, according to a Websense report. About 75 percent of it comes from legitimate sites that have been compromised. That is an almost 50 percent rise over Q3 & Q4 of 2007. Of the top 100 websites on the internet 60 percent either hosted malicious content or contained a redirect to lure victims to malicious sites.

Always have your protection when surfing the internet boys and girls and not just FireFox like in the poster image below. An up to date Internet Security Suite is a must have.

You can visit the complete Websense report here for all the latest info on the filth lurking on the internet.

What do you do to protect your computer from Malware? Wrapping it in latex doesn't count.

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Posted 07/16/08 at 07:28:25 AM by Chris Moody

The latest version of the iPhone has been unlocked, using the same trick as was used on the original iPhone. It involves using a special SIM card adapter that makes the phone think it's on an approved network. TechGuru, a Brazilian blog, posted the first report and Gizmodo checked the process out and confirmed it.

So Apple and ATT are foiled again. I have to wonder if they even really cared, since folks were able to use the exact same method to unlock the phones as was used on the original iPhone. They may have felt it was just inevitable that the phone would be hacked again.

The debate is firing up if ‘carrier exclusives’ are a good or bad thing. Some argue that without official carrier support, some of the greatest features like Visual Voicemail wouldn’t exist. Other’s want to be able to be able to use the iPhone in areas where ATT doesn’t offer service and feel the iPhone should be available to whatever carrier they want to use it on. Where do you stand?

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