DHS incorrectly associates 84,000 web sites with child pornography
On February 15th a joint project of the Department of Homeland Security Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Justice termed “Operation Protect Our Children” confidently announced the seizure of ...
Colbert Explains Cyberwar
On the Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert provided some background on “the First Great Cyberwar” as the hacktivist collective Anonymous has dubbed it, the “Defend Assange” sub-mission of Operation Payback. Operation Payback ...
Anonymous Releases Very Unanonymous Press Release
Today, December 10th, Anonymous, an Internet gathering, released a press release which you can read below. In it, a description is provided of what Anonymous is about, what Operation Payback is, and ...
Paypal Sender Country XSS
A new XSS vulnerability was identified on Paypal.com earlier today, found by d3v1l and disclosed on both Security-Shell and XSSed. The problem is with the parameter sender_country in a transaction called nvpsm ...
Turning an ATM into a Slot Machine
Security researcher Barnaby Jack, currently at IOActive but a veteran of Foundstone, eEye, and Juniper with almost ten years in the industry, has demonstrated two exploit methods for ATM’s (Automated Teller Machines) ...
114,000 iPad Owners: The Script that Harvested Their E-mail Addresses
Here is the script referenced in the Gawker story from earlier that describes how a number of early iPad 3G subscribers, including names like Harvey Weinstein, Michael Bloomberg, Diane Sawyer, and Rahm ...
Thou Shalt Not Send Naked Pictures…To Anyone Ever
It’s becoming a familiar story, an angry parent of a student reports finding inappropriate images, self taken naked pictures and videos, on that student’s cell phone. The images and video were sent ...
