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Here’s an eye-opening article by computer security expert Bruce Schneier on the lessons learned from a database of stolen passwords: Real-World Passwords. How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts? It’s a hard question to answer because data is scarce. But recently, ...
Security, Computers, Passwords, Internet, Social Engineering, Schneier
Chinese robots. The Internet is lousy with them. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. concerns about the potential for cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure extended to the American electrical power grid on Wednesday and experts pointed the finger anew at Chinese hackers, among others. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters ...
Early this morning, for about a half hour, Google’s search engine was issuing the warning, “This Site May Harm Your Computer”—for every site on the web. It’s fixed now, and here’s the explanation from the official Google blog: ‘This site may harm your computer’ on every search result?!?! What ...
Authorities have foiled a plot by a fired contract worker who planted a virus that would have wiped out all of Fannie Mae’s records. URBANA, Md. (AP) — The Justice Department says it foiled a plot by a fired Fannie Mae contract worker in Maryland to destroy all the ...
A group of Muslim passengers was removed from an Airtran flight at Reagan International Airport yesterday, after passengers reported hearing them discussing airport security. Members of the party, all but one of them U.S.-born citizens who were headed to a religious retreat in Florida, were subsequently cleared for travel ...
CAIR, Islam, Discrimination, Airline Safety, Council on American Islamic Relations, Security
Internet Explorer has a really really big security hole, and Chinese hackers are exploiting it like crazy: Microsoft issuing emergency fix for browser flaw. Update ASAP so we don’t have to block your IP address when your PC goes zombie.
Internet, Technology, Security, Hackers, China, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
We’ve received several emails today about a PC antivirus program complaining about a virus called “Actns/Swif.T” when LGF was loaded. This warning message seems to be related to the embedded YouTube videos, and CrunchGear says it’s a false positive. UPDATE: Spoke with Google/YouTube and apparently anti-spyware software from Computer ...
Here’s a scary little story about the increasing sophistication of online criminals: Hands-off hackers: Crooks opt for surgical strikes. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Internet criminals have been getting more “professional” for years, trying to run their businesses like Big Business to get better and more profitable at selling stolen ...
We don’t know what the McCain campaign’s excuse is, but way back in June we pointed out that the Obama campaign’s web administrators were making ridiculous, amateurish security mistakes: Highlights: Newsweek’s Special Election Project. The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated ...
If you’ve been having any of the following problems at LGF: * Login from the main page doesn’t work, but clicking through to an article page and logging in does. * The “top rated links” area just spins and spins and doesn’t open, until you click through to another LGF ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Security, htaccess, mod_rewrite
We’re being besieged by web crawlers again, trying to download every page at the site as quickly as possible, ignoring the rules in our robots.txt file, and generally being a huge pain in the posterior. They always seem to get active on weekends, probably counting on people to be less ...
I’ve gotten emails from several people seeing notices from Firefox or Safari that there are “errors opening the page.” It’s because of the embedded YouTube videos. YouTube’s code has suddenly started trying to read a file named ‘crossdomain.xml’ from ‘localhost’, and the browser prevents it and throws an error as ...
The serious bug discovered recently in most of the world’s DNS servers has even greater implications, according to security expert Dan Kaminsky: Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail. LAS VEGAS - A newly discovered flaw in the Internet’s core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to ...
SANS has some details on the reason for that Site Meter problem that blocked out Internet Explorer from many sites: We received several reports (thanks Thanos and Jim) of sites which use the Sitemeter visitor counter that were no longer loading as of last night for users with Internet ...
LGF, Internet, Security, IE7, Internet Explorer, Site Meter, Sitemeter
What’s up with Site Meter? We first reported the problem last night, but today their code still causes Internet Explorer 7 to throw an “Operation aborted” error. There are a lot of sites affected by this; did they just release a buggy update and go on a long weekend vacation? ...
LGF, Internet, Security, IE7, Internet Explorer, Site Meter, Sitemeter
I’ve confirmed that there’s some kind of problem on the Internet, that only seems to affect users of the Internet Explorer 7 web browser. Attempting to browse to many sites results in an ‘Operation Aborted’ error. No information about the problem elsewhere yet ... stay tuned. UPDATE at 8/1/08 7:20:27 ...
If you plan on visiting Beijing for the Olympics, watch out what you do on the Internet. WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - China has installed Internet-spying equipment in all the major hotel chains serving the 2008 Summer Olympics, a U.S. senator charged on Tuesday. “The Chinese government has put ...
LGF, China, Olympic Games, Olympics, Security, Privacy, Spyware, Internet
Something odd’s happening on the Internet. A lot of sites are inaccessible and I had to turn off our advertisements to get LGF to load. An attack, or just a burned out router somewhere? UPDATE at 7/10/08 7:16:56 pm: Time Warner Cable seems to be having serious trouble on the ...
The Viacom entertainment conglomerate has won a ruling that will force YouTube (owned by Google) to disclose details about every person who has ever watched a video at the site: Google must divulge YouTube log. The ruling comes as part of Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of ...
Suddenly this morning, the YouTube videos embedded in our pages (there were 2 on the front page) started causing page loading errors; the server ‘i.ytimg.com’ (a YouTube address that normally serves thumbnail images for the videos) was trying to read a file from localhost, via port 8881. The exact URL ...
LGF, Youtube, Internet, Security, i.ytimg.com, crossdomain.xml
Un-freaking-believable: Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy. Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US ...
Amateurish beyond belief. On its very first day online, the Barack Obama “Fight the Smears” web site has been pwned. Also see: Obama’s Amateurish Web Designers Obama’s Amateurish Web Designers Still Leaving Directories Open Obama Campaign Belatedly Looking for a Security Expert - After the Problems Are Exposed UPDATE ...
As we’ve pointed out recently, the official Barack Obama campaign web site is full of utterly amateurish security problems, such as open directory listings. LGF reader EC Marm points out that the campaign is now advertising for a “security expert:” Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Secure ...
It’s about time, and it’s beyond frightening that the people charged with guarding our nuclear arsenal have become this lax: Gates ousts Air Force leaders in historic shake-up. And if you really want to be scared, imagine what nuclear security is like in the former Soviet Union. WASHINGTON - ...
As the Democratic Party continues to hammer away at their message and insist that the Bush administration’s policies “have not made us safer,” here’s news that directly contradicts their defeatism: Iraq figures distort terrorism statistics: study. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A study released on Wednesday reports a decline in ...