I couldn't say it better...
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=19309
Human Errors Fuel Hacking as Test Shows Nothing Prevents Idiocy
June 27, 2011 by admin
Cliff Edwards, Olga Kharif and Michael Riley report:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ran a test this year to see how hard it was for hackers to corrupt workers and gain access to computer systems. Not very, it turned out.
Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots of government buildings and private contractors. Of those who picked them up, 60 percent plugged the devices into office computers, curious to see what they contained. If the drive or CD case had an official logo, 90 percent were installed.
Read more on Bloomberg.
[From the article:
Spear-phishing is evolving into what Rasch calls whale phishing: Targeting senior-level executives whose computers may have access to far more sensitive information that rank-and-file workers.
I doubt very much that we've seen the end of hacking, but it is likely Lulzsec would like to cut their trail and move to another secure structure to make themselves harder to trace.
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=19297
LulzSec Says Goodbye with New Data Dump
June 26, 2011 by admin
Ian Paul reports on the farewell message and data dump posted by LulzSec last night:
… By far, the largest data trove is a compressed file containing nearly 600MB of internal AT&T data. The group also obtained what it says are a technical note from AOL; user names and passwords for employees of the investigative firm Priority Investigations; 12,000 user credentials from a NATO bookshop run by a third party; more than half a million logins for the online game Battlefield Heroes Beta; 200,000 user names and passwords from Hackforums.net; and a screenshot showing a defacement of a U.S. Navy job board. The final hacker trove also includes a variety of other data from gamer sites and corporate networks, according to online chatter and an index of the data posted by LulzSec.
Read more on PC World.
I’d try to research the data dump, but The Pirate Bay has removed it and there is talk on Twitter and elsewhere that the files contained some infections (not inserted by LulzSec, reportedly, but present in the files). So I’ll just bide my time on this one….
I doubt that this was highly classified – I suspect they would want everyone to have a copy. The only reason to keep it secret is to reinforce the condescending “We are experts, you are not” approach that everyone expects from the Feds...
AntiSec: Cyberterrorism training kit leaks to the Web
An ISO containing documents for SENTINEL, a training program sponsored by the DHS and FEMA’s Cyberterrorism Defense Initiative (CDI), has been published to the Web. It was released as a teaser for future AntiSec leaks, planned for sometime this week.
Even I, with my very low opinion of government IQ, find this hard to believe...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20074493-71/is-this-the-end-for-red-light-cameras/
Is this the end for red light cameras?
In different parts of the world, authorities are wondering whether there is any real benefit in having them at all. Yes, even financial benefit.
In the home of the automobile--no, not Detroit, Los Angeles--the Police Commission is, according to MSNBC, requesting that red light cameras should be removed before the Lakers and Clippers begin their new season.
You might wonder whether these objections are based on curiously moral grounds. Well, some objectors do, indeed, believe that red light cameras are merely insidious machines that generate revenue for strapped (or merely spendthrift) local councils.
However, in LA it seems that these things might not even make money. The city reportedly only receives a mere one-third of the revenue that the cameras generate. Which might suggest that the city could use the money saved by removing the cameras to hire better contract negotiators.
Amusingly (for some), MSNBC reported that the costs of operating the cameras exceeds the revenue generated by between $1 million and $1.5 million--and that's when tickets are $446. Which suggests that the money saved by removing the cameras might be used to hire better financial estimators.
Angelenos are, oddly, not keen on actually paying for these tickets, and judges, even more oddly, seem reluctant to enforce them. More oddly still, there was reportedly no great increase in safety numbers either.
It's not a traditional APA cite, but it is effective... Note: It looks even easier with the Firefox extension!
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/citebite-link-to-quotes/
Citebite: Easlily Highlight & Link To Quotes On Webpages
Making a citation or attribution online, be it for a school paper, a blog, or a straight news article, is very important. It is a big part of recognizing the ideas and thoughts of other writers that helped shape your piece of writing. However, the Internet has not yet found a way to easily cite sources outside of linking back to the source URL. But with Citebite, it is now possible to get a direct quote from the article while showing readers the source URL with the quoted text highlighted for convenience.
Citebite is very easy to use. Just copy and paste the text that you want to quote or source into the text box, and then also copy and paste the source URL. Once done, click “Make Citebite” which will get you a unique link leading to the source URL with your quoted text highlighted in the content. This makes it easier for readers to look up the quoted text and view your article in context.
Similar tools: EasyBib, BibMe and Ottobib.
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