[funsec] Finally, a universal translator!

2006-10-27 Thread Dude VanWinkle
First laser guns now this, sweet! http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19225755.800feedId=online-news_rss20 The device uses electrodes attached to the face and neck to detect and interpret the unique patterns of electrical signals sent to facial muscles and the tongue as the person

Re: [funsec] Sourcefire makes big mistake

2006-10-27 Thread Blue Boar
Fergie wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital -- Dude VanWinkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats a vc firm? Sorry Dude, I was making too many assumptions about what people know. Near Silicon Valley here, everyone knows how venture capital works. ;) Short version of the story: a

[funsec] RE: RE: God dead

2006-10-27 Thread Randall M
Strange, you have to put the word Evil in their search bar at top to produce the results showing Microsoft. http://www.howstuffworks.com/search.php I was just sitting here thinking about what

Re: [funsec] Blog Questions

2006-10-27 Thread Dude VanWinkle
On 10/27/06, Steve Kalman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Godaddy has a blog feature that I've been thinking about. It is anadd-on feature based on your own doman name. They also sell SSL certs.I have no idea if you could do both at once, but if so your blog wouldbe on https://blog.yourdomain...etcWould

[funsec] MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers

2006-10-27 Thread Fergie
Via Netcraft. [snip] Netcraft has discovered that the social networking site, MySpace, appears to have been compromised by phishers who have presented a spoof login form on the main site. This modified login form is designed to submit the victim's username and password to a remote server hosted

Re: [funsec] Sourcefire makes big mistake

2006-10-27 Thread Blue Boar
Dude VanWinkle wrote: I know what venture capital is, just had no clue thats what VC stood for I thought you were tallking about the bad guys in the vietnam war So, you thought that if you wrote good code and paid your programmers well, then the Viet Cong wouldn't make you take your company

Re: [funsec] MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers

2006-10-27 Thread Fergie
Good question. :-) - ferg -- Ron Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fergie wrote: The hackers have engineered a fake login form on MySpace's own web site. Sometime in the last 15 or so minutes, that page disappeared. Now how are they going to prevent others from doing the same thing? --

[funsec] A little comic relief

2006-10-27 Thread Randall M
Title: A little comic relief Comedian Colbert takes on Dawkins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1fTkvefu5seurl= Thank You Randall M  = You too can have your very own Computer! Note: Side effects include: Blue screens; interrupt violation; illegal operations;

[funsec] Media War

2006-10-27 Thread Dude VanWinkle
By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. military losses mount steadily in Iraq, a document issued by a group linked to al Qaeda spells out new goals for America's most determined enemies and calls for a media war against the United States. The document, which

Re: [funsec] Congressman Ed Markey Wants Security Researcher Arrested

2006-10-27 Thread Drsolly
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Fergie wrote: This is... priceless. Via 27B Stroke 6. [snip] Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wants the federal government to arrest security researcher Christopher Soghoian for creating the Northwest Airline Boarding Pass Generator, a site which lets anyone

Re: [funsec] Ms. Dewey: A rather strange search site

2006-10-27 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah
Date sent: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:37:12 -0500 From: Ron Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe a dumb question, but since you didn't mention it, did you try going to about:plugins? Not a dumb question at all. Didn't know about that. Interesting. Anyway, to proceed with

Re: [funsec] Congressman Ed Markey Wants Security Researcher Arrested

2006-10-27 Thread Gregory Hicks
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:25:14 +0100 (BST) From: Drsolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fergie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [funsec] Congressman Ed Markey Wants Security Researcher Arrested Cc: funsec@linuxbox.org On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Fergie wrote: This is... priceless. Via 27B Stroke

Re: [funsec] Congressman Ed Markey Wants Security Researcher Arrested

2006-10-27 Thread Nick FitzGerald
Fergie wrote: Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wants the federal government to arrest security researcher Christopher Soghoian for creating the Northwest Airline Boarding Pass Generator, a site which lets anyone create a facsimile of a Northwest Airlines boarding pass. Soghoian hoped to

Re: [funsec] SecurityFocus: Botnets Likely Behind Jump in Spam

2006-10-27 Thread Kevin McAleavey
Heh. Wow ... it's Captain Obvious to the rescue! :) Zlob, Gromozon, the usual suspects. Free codecs and cracks seem to be the major source. We see 3-4 new spambots each day lately. And (gasp!) they've discovered rootkits ... amusing that this is news to some though, been going on for better

Re: [funsec] SecurityFocus: Botnets Likely Behind Jump in Spam

2006-10-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:45:19 EDT, Kevin McAleavey said: Free codecs and cracks seem to be the major source. Free codecs, as in Install this free codec so you can watch insert name here naked? And of course it never seems to work, but the luser isn't suspicious because they're *used* to crap

Re: [funsec] MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers

2006-10-27 Thread Fergie
Apparently so. :-) - ferg -- Blue Boar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the other half of the attack? http://mashable.com/2006/10/27/myspace-phishing-attack-appears-on-3000-pages/ -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's