[funsec] Government ready to eavesdrop North Korean new 3G network

2009-02-06 Thread Juha-Matti Laurio
Koryolink, the North Korean 3G cellular network established in mid-December by Egypt's Orascom Telecom, has attracted several thousand subscribers in the first two weeks since it began accepting applications in January. And the article continues: With the launch of the Koryolink network the

[funsec] Firefox 3.0.6 released this week

2009-02-06 Thread Reed Loden
Since ferg hasn't mentioned it yet, I'll go ahead and mention it. :) http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefo x3.0.6 Please make sure all your machines are updated, as there were a few nasty vulns that got fixed. Also, if you're still using Firefox 2, note that

Re: [funsec] Government ready to eavesdrop North Korean new 3G network

2009-02-06 Thread Ahmad Elkhatib
But this is the case with every GSM network. The government of any country can eavesdrop if it wants. -Ahmad On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Juha-Matti Laurio juha-matti.lau...@netti.fi wrote: Koryolink, the North Korean 3G cellular network established in mid-December by Egypt's Orascom

[funsec] A candidate for the 'worst idea ever' award?

2009-02-06 Thread Jim Murray
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7874151.stm Microsoft appears to now be encouraging users to run code directly from webpages to fix PC problems. Doesn't anyone there actually think beyond the 'oh, this looks cool' stage? IT managers support teams already have enough problems caused by

Re: [funsec] A candidate for the 'worst idea ever' award?

2009-02-06 Thread John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP
They've done so much to help online crime, why quit while they are behind. On 2/6/09, Jim Murray j...@digitaldaemons.co.uk wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7874151.stm Microsoft appears to now be encouraging users to run code directly from webpages to fix PC problems. Doesn't

Re: [funsec] A candidate for the 'worst idea ever' award?

2009-02-06 Thread Jeff Kell
John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP wrote: They've done so much to help online crime, why quit while they are behind. On 2/6/09, Jim Murray j...@digitaldaemons.co.uk wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7874151.stm Microsoft appears to now be encouraging users to run code directly

Re: [funsec] A candidate for the 'worst idea ever' award?

2009-02-06 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
It was IE4 on Win95 The user is superuser (there is no other kind) The browser is the shell. Hilarity did NOT ensue (apologies to Tucker Max). -Original Message- From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Kell Sent: Friday, February 06,

[funsec] U.S. Congressman Twitters an Iraq Security Breach

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Via CQ Politics. [snip] A congressional trip to Iraq this weekend was supposed to be a secret. But the cat's out of the bag now, thanks to a member of the House Intelligence Committee who broke an embargo via Twitter. A delegation led by House