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Dutch security researchers rode the London Underground free for a day after easily using an ordinary laptop to clone the “smartcards” commuters use to pay fares, a hack that highlights a serious security flaw because similar cards provide access to thousands of government offices, hospitals and schools.
There are more than 17 million of the transit […]
Casinos are all about odds. If a player has shifted the odds into his favor, he can be asked to leave. But if a player simply wins a ton of money through sheer luck even though the odds are against him, the casino will do everything it can to lure the player back.
To Jonas, […]
Con job, pretexting, social engineering – the art and science of manipulating human beings for nefarious ends – goes back as far as the origin of the species. The techniques have been practiced and perfected by a rogue’s gallery of flimflam artists, from legendary carnival operator P. T. Barnum to infamous FBI mole Robert Hanssen.
But […]
Link: FBI able to listen in on Mobile Phones that are Turned on or off
This is awesome , the people who generated fake news about the harry potter book being stolen reveal how they developed and implemented this social engineering / information hack.
Title : The Harry Potter Hoax
Class : Social Engineering / Denial Of Service
Severity : Critical
Solution Status : Unpatched
Vendor : The Media
Affected versions: The People
Link: The Harry […]
This entire book will eventually be read aloud and podcast for you to hear ! The link is to Part 1 .
Bruce Sterling’s classic work highlights the 1990 assault on hackers, when law-enforcement officials successfully arrested scores of suspected illicit hackers and other computer-based law-breakers. These raids became symbolic of the debate between […]
Not everyone steals famous paintings, cash, or microchips. In fact, some people go to great lengths to get their hands on some very unsavory — yet quite expensive — items. In November of 2005, a farmer at Smithburg, Maryland’s Stonewood Acres had ventured to Pennsylvania to visit relatives. When he returned to the farm, he […]
A great essay on cyberwar by Bruce Schneier .
The first problem with any discussion about cyberwar is definitional. Ive been reading about cyberwar for years now, and there seem to be as many definitions of the term as there are people who write about the topic. Some people try to limit cyberwar to military actions […]
One Born every minute….
Hundreds of people have clicked on an online advertisement to download a free computer virus that said, “Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here”.
Data security firm F-Secure says 409 people clicked on computer specialist Didier Stevens ad during a six-month campaign on Googles Adword.
“Some of them must have clicked on it […]