[funsec] Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.

2012-07-26 Thread The Security Community
We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>. lol ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.

Re: [funsec] All's fair in love and Black Friday shopping ...

2011-11-25 Thread The Security Community
In this day and age she didn't have a taser-enabled iPhone? On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > Black Friday violence update: woman sprays fellow shoppers at California > Walmart with pepper spray: > http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/25/business/money-b

Re: [funsec] [Full-disclosure] not fun but full disclosure

2011-06-23 Thread The Security Community
We're busy releasing "feel good" press releases about taking down Conficker and Coreflood! On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:45 PM, RandallM wrote: > Speak of such.. > > is what LULZ did with AZ over boarder patrol correct? > > why is the security community so quite ove

Re: [funsec] [cisspforum] Bruce Schneier video

2011-04-27 Thread The Security Community
He's actually a pretty normal looking guy. You'd never know it by that hideous picture he has on his blog. http://www.schneier.com/images/bruce-blog2.jpg CRAZY EYES! RUN!!! On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > > > > For those who have only rea

[funsec] Interesting way to recruit foreign workers

2011-04-18 Thread The Security Community
http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=695886&Itemid=29 Calling all hackers: Data Analyzers, LLC (www.datanalyzers.com) in Orlando, Florida, is hosting the Sunshine State "Hacktacular" Challenge with a big prize for the top competitor - a full-time job with benefits and reloca

Re: [funsec] Steve Jobs' Official Biography Arrives in Early 2012

2011-04-11 Thread The Security Community
Or right after he dies, whichever comes first. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Robert Slade wrote: > Wasn't that supposed to be the year the world ended? > ___ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/list

[funsec] For Some Reason I Can't Bring Myself To Care About This Company

2011-04-01 Thread The Security Community
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/265505 After one more heavy hackers attack that happened a few hours ago, the Bux4Real Team keep its promise to revolutionize the Bux industry with their new money making concept! Bux4Real creator, Mr. Tony Rocha, will keep that promise by any

Re: [funsec] If you suddenly taste sour ...

2011-02-02 Thread The Security Community
Gee, my high school chemistry teacher taught us that more years ago than I care to document. He was well known for licking the glass stoppers from bottles of sulfuric acid. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > http://improbable.com/2011/02/02/a-ta

Re: [funsec] Microsoft would *never* misuse personal information like that ...

2010-11-12 Thread The Security Community
George Orwell had it all wrong.  The private sector is much more efficient at monitoring (and controlling) the masses. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > > Microsoft is considering using the camera on its new Kinect videogame system > to > targ

Re: [funsec] "New device lets diners swipe credit cards themselves"

2010-10-18 Thread The Security Community
If it's made in China, all bets are off. Pay cash. On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Shawn Merdinger wrote: > "Crooks who engage in identity theft and credit card fraud will find > thin pickings at restaurants with the new CATS encrypted card reader > developed by Bellatrix Systems of Bend. CAT

Re: [funsec] WSJ: Ford Uses Wi-Fi to Customize Cars

2010-08-26 Thread The Security Community
Found On Road DoS'd? On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Larry Seltzer wrote: > Think of the possibilities > > Feed: WSJ.com: What's News Technology > Posted on: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:58 PM > Author: WSJ.com: What's News Technology > Subject: Ford Uses Wi-Fi to Customize Cars > > Ford is usi

Re: [funsec] paper: “New shit has come to light ”: Information seeking behavior in The Big Leb owski

2010-08-11 Thread The Security Community
Phone's ringin', dude! On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Shawn Merdinger wrote: > https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/2099 > ___ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funse

[funsec] iPhone 4 cursed?

2010-07-16 Thread The Security Community
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-iphone-jinx-20100716,0,186165.story?track=rss The string of woes have been so striking that some have sought alternative explanations, including the notion that the phone may simply be jinxed. One theory focuses on the number four. In China, where the iPhone

[funsec] "As soon as we heard about the attorneys, we... fixed it"

2010-06-25 Thread The Security Community
I love that line! http://www.esecurityplanet.com/news/article.php/3889951/Anthem-Blue-Cross-Cops-to-Massive-Data-Breach.htm A sloppy website upgrade is being blamed this week for a data breach that left the most sensitive personal information of more than 230,000 Anthem Blue Cross members exposed

[funsec] Blippy - the accident waiting to happen - happened

2010-04-23 Thread The Security Community
http://www.businessinsider.com/scary-blippy-publishes-user-credit-card-numbers-2010-4 Blippy is the weird-that-it-exists Web service that lets users share with the world all their credit card transactions. It got a huge wet kiss from the New York Times today! One big problem though: Blippy appear

[funsec] Apparently McAfee stepped on their genitals today...

2010-04-21 Thread The Security Community
http://isc.sans.org/ We have received several reports indicating some issues with McAfee DAT 5958 causing Windows XP SP3 clients to be locked out. It is affecting svchost.exe. Here is an example of the message: The file C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe contains the W32/Wecorl.a Virus. Undetermined cl

[funsec] Just because you're paranoid...

2010-04-21 Thread The Security Community
... doesn't mean there isn't a chip implanted inside you! http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20100421/NEWS/304219984 - After identifying the shooter who killed one person and injured two others at Parkwest Medical Center Monday, police painted a picture of a mentall

Re: [funsec] last stupid question for 09

2009-12-31 Thread The Security Community
I'm sure Google violates their own policy when it comes to cooperating with governments but in theory it's simple to avoid them: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35302 There must be money to be made in not looking the other way. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:26 PM,

Re: [funsec] threats abound for 2010 what shall we do, oh my!

2009-12-31 Thread The Security Community
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:59 AM, wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:08:14 EST, The Security Community said: > >> As I recall, McAfee, et. al. predicted that massive numbers of >> unemployed IT workers would turn to cybercrime.  If this ever came to >> pass, it never made

Re: [funsec] threats abound for 2010 what shall we do, oh my!

2009-12-31 Thread The Security Community
Has anyone bothered to check the predictions of 2009 against reality? As I recall, McAfee, et. al. predicted that massive numbers of unemployed IT workers would turn to cybercrime. If this ever came to pass, it never made the news as far as I can tell. Here is one such prediction, from 12/2008..

[funsec] RAM scrapers again?

2009-12-31 Thread The Security Community
http://www.ktuu.com/global/Story.asp?s=11751437 ---quote--- "These terminals are actually very, very secure. The whole system is very, very secure. It's designed so that as soon as that card is read by the terminal, it's encrypted and sent off to the bank for authorization, so at no point in betw

Re: [funsec] ram scraper

2009-12-10 Thread The Security Community
The last time I rented a car (August, Enterprise) the ass-end of the POS terminal I was served at presented me (the customer) with two USB sockets. The counter people were in and out of the office constantly and although there was video surveillance it wouldn't have been difficult to plug a thumb

Re: [funsec] ram scraper

2009-12-10 Thread The Security Community
Considering "...The RAM scraper dumped the contents of the server’s live memory into a file named dumper.dll in the Windows system subdirectories..." it (the scraper) must have had at least local admin access, if not system access, in order to write a file there (unless security was thoroughly hose

Re: [funsec] one of the best marketing ploys

2009-12-07 Thread The Security Community
Truly, the advertising industry is more evil than international cartels. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: > The following is a very good article on how diamonds were made what they > are today by advertising alone. 80 years ago, only a few pounds of > diamonds were sold globally

Re: [funsec] IT consumerization

2009-11-11 Thread The Security Community
Same article, no registration required... http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09313?rssid=all_updates&gko=38abb&tid=27782251&pg=all (FWIW, the BugMeNot plug-in for Firefox handles the original link quite nicely .) On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM, RandallM wrote: > Have you adopted this? >

Re: [funsec] Twitter suspends security researcher's account as a threat

2009-10-11 Thread The Security Community
What security professional in their right mind would use Twitter? I'd say it was a good call on Twitter's part. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > "Twitter erroneously suspended, and subsequently restored, a prominent > researcher’s account two months after he tweeted >

[funsec] No silver lining in this Cloud

2009-10-10 Thread The Security Community
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/?category.id=Sidekick T-MOBILE AND MICROSOFT/DANGER STATUS UPDATE ON SIDEKICK DATA DISRUPTION Dear valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers: T-Mobile and the Sidekick data services provider, Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, are reaching out to express our apologies re

[funsec] MLM "managed security"?

2009-09-27 Thread The Security Community
Seems legit at first... http://www.myinvisusdirect.com/ But it's an MLM scheme... http://howtoadd5repsaday.com/ At least they have a HUGE potential market. ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinf

[funsec] If browsers were women

2009-09-20 Thread The Security Community
http://forum.phpvideotutorials.com/showthread.php?t=5334 I am fully prepared to be labeled a sexist, but I thought it was funny. ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a pub

Re: [funsec] can't get to the hackers? sue the banks instead.

2009-08-23 Thread The Security Community
Didn't the press used to call it "credit card fraud" before "teh Internets" came along? Calling it "identity theft" seems to shift the focus to the victim instead of the merchants and banks, where it belongs. In fact, as I recall "bank phishing" exploded at the same time CitiBank started those cu

Re: [funsec] Real, fake, or prank, reminder: Facebook is public

2009-08-23 Thread The Security Community
I'm sure this chick's life was full of relatively mundane stuff, too... right before the embarrassing part http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081126/NEWS/81126006 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Alex Eckelberry wrote: > Looking at her profile page, it's mundane stuff until the > emba

[funsec] Flight 447 disaster an Internet conspiracy?

2009-06-03 Thread The Security Community
The domain name was registered in 2007... Domain flight447.com: Success. 23852 pacific coast highway unit 720 malibu, ca 90265 US Administrative contact: Technical contact: Billing contact: Success. inc. malib...@aol.com 23852 pacific coast highway unit 720 malibu, ca 90265 US Ph

Re: [funsec] PirateBay loses

2009-04-17 Thread The Security Community
Maybe they should move their site to Somalia. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Alex Eckelberry wrote: > http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6111777.ece > > > > Four men behind the popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay remained > defiant today despite being sent

Re: [funsec] EasyDNS getting whacked by Conficker?

2009-04-01 Thread The Security Community
Seems to be OK now. It was brought to my attention because name resolution for some of our domains was timing out earlier this morning. That was the only reason I went to the site in the first place. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Buhrmaster, Gary wrote: > >> Subject: [funsec] EasyDNS getting

[funsec] EasyDNS getting whacked by Conficker?

2009-04-01 Thread The Security Community
Or is it just your garden variety DoS? www.easydns.com has been painfully slow all morning. ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.

Re: [funsec] Yelling at your hard drive (video)

2009-01-03 Thread The Security Community
Yet another reason to keep Billy Mays out of your server room. On 1/3/09, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > Shouting in the Datacenter: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 > > "Brendan Gregg from Sun's Fishworks team makes an interesting discovery > about inducing disk latency." > > via Sunbelt

[funsec] Weird Press Release Claims "Unbreakable Encryption"

2008-12-22 Thread The Security Community
This press release has been making the rounds and appears to have come out of nowhere. The company's Web site is simply the press release and a phone number. I have never heard of the "open challenge to hackers" the company allegedly made, but maybe I missed something. ==

Re: [funsec] returning the favor-Ferg is a suit!

2008-12-20 Thread The Security Community
I didn't know he was a funeral director. On 12/20/08, Gadi Evron wrote: > http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2008/12/ye-olde-christmas-party-2008.html > ___ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funse

Re: [funsec] Phone fraud

2008-12-18 Thread The Security Community
On 12/18/08, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/18/phone-hacked.html > > A not-uncommon story. However, I keep telling people: > > a) We don't know enough about phone systems, After all, the technology has only been around for about 1

[funsec] Police Puzzled by Dozens of Identity Theft Cases

2008-12-18 Thread The Security Community
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/suburban/36361364.html -- PLAQUEMINE — City police say they are puzzled by a rash of identity theft cases in which thieves have run up bank debit card charges under the names of local residents. The victims include two members of the Board of Selec

Re: [funsec] Anybody know why Websense is blocking Flash player downloads?

2008-08-06 Thread The Security Community
nutes > from a customer reporting it. Depending on your version you may need to > update the database via a new download (most versions would have done this > automatically). > > It was indeed a false positive so no Adobe has not gone to the dark side. > > > > > ---

[funsec] Anybody know why Websense is blocking Flash player downloads?

2008-08-06 Thread The Security Community
See below... has Adobe gone to the Dark Side? Your organization's Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time. Reason: The Websense category "Illegal or Questionable" is filtered. URL: htt

Re: [funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-18 Thread The Security Community
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:47 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:22:56 EDT, The Security Community said: > >> Again, CyberArk != FBI and 47 != 70. > > You missed the point - if 47% are doing things that are quite possibly ECPA > offenses, they could

Re: [funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-18 Thread The Security Community
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:51:59 EDT, The Security Community said: >>>> > > The original number is from some research in the 70s. > Then the articles should read "According to some res

Re: [funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-18 Thread The Security Community
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:51:59 EDT, The Security Community said: > > On the other hand, it's going to be very hard to fight the "70% are insiders" > meme until you find a way to debunk this survey:

Re: [funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-18 Thread The Security Community
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:26:34 EDT, The Security Community said: > >> And yet the 70% Lie goes on... here's another one for the Hall of >> Shame, published hours ago... same claim, no proof... this

Re: [funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-18 Thread The Security Community
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Richard M. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I find rapidly falling oil production in Mexico a much more > compelling issue to be concerned with. > > Richard > And yet the 70% Lie goes on... here's another one for the Hall of Shame, published hours

Re: [funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-18 Thread The Security Community
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:32 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:14:52 EDT, "Young, Keith" said: >> > I think Verizon Business's recent report (based on over 500 actual data breach > incidents) is fairly credible. I'd certainly believe that insiders racked up > 70% or more of

Re: [funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-18 Thread The Security Community
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, The Security Community wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, The Security Community

Re: [funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-18 Thread The Security Community
; Interesting. The filename of the copy obtained by the Security Community is titled "ccs2005.pdf". A quick Google search turns up a few copies elsewhere... http://www.digitalriver.com/v2.0-img/operations/naievigi/site/media/pdf/FBIccs2005.pdf It looks like it "vanished&quo

Re: [funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-18 Thread The Security Community
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, The Security Community wrote: > > Not reading the post below, I can tell you the numbers are based on real > research, but it is so old my memory fails me. The link to this research i

[funsec] Stop The 70% Lie

2008-07-17 Thread The Security Community
http://70percenters.googlepages.com/ "The FBI estimates that about 70 percent of all computer security breaches are perpetrated by insiders." For years this lie and variations on the same theme have been spreading through the Internet and the industry press. Year after year journalists, security

Re: [funsec] SANS Says Your Computer's Back Door Is Wide Open

2008-03-31 Thread The Security Community
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Daniel H. Renner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Since when did a printer or a hard drive need to communicate out to the > Internet!?) Ask HP... this is on the "Privacy Settings" (http://address.of.your.hp.printer/) of a LaserJet 3700...

Re: [funsec] The World’s Oldest Sound Recordings Pl ayed For The First Time

2008-03-28 Thread The Security Community
WARNING: Do NOT download the codec! : P On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Juha-Matti Laurio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OT but cool: > http://www.firstsounds.org/press/032708/index.php > > "Au Clair de la Lune" - French folk song, back to 1860... > > Juha-Matti > __

[funsec] Fwd: [ISN] Sneaky state employees may have inadvertantly exposed info to hackers

2008-03-25 Thread The Security Community
A rather interesting story. And fun! Proxies are one of my favorite subjects. If you go to veryfastproxy.com, the proxy the State workers were using, you will notice it has an extremetracking.com web-bug in the lower left hand corner (that little purple Jupiter logo). If you follow the bug (http

[funsec] Software glitch deletes news of software glitch

2008-02-26 Thread The Security Community
The Security Community keeps its eyes open for news of the "software glitch" because this is often spin-speak for other, more serious problems. It is odd that the news item here, although tagged by Google, doesn't exist anymore. Searching the site for "software glitch&quo

[funsec] NIU Shooting Domain Grab

2008-02-15 Thread The Security Community
The following domains were registered in the last 24 hours: niugunman.com niushooter.com niuvictims.com niushootings.com ... etc More to come, for certain. niumemorial.com was not registered when it was checked. Network Solutions probably has it by now. M tasty! BTW, dudevanwinkle.co

[funsec] It's National Handwashing Awareness Week!

2007-12-04 Thread The Security Community
http://www.henrythehand.com/pages/content/hwaw.html Please share this "link" with ALL your family, friends, class mates and coworkers to help them stay healthier one handwash at a time. Share with them how practicing the 4 Principles of Hand Awareness will help them to remain healthy, in spite of