Posted by bordalix
Mon, 28 May 2007 08:47:00 GMT
warning: the following material could lead you to a addictive behaviour (for 2 to 3 days).
Last Thursday, I went to YouTube and searched for bar tricks, you know, those proposition bets where you bet you can do something, which seems impossible, do it and earn some free beers (like in free software).
While surfing the YouTube search results, I found this BBC series named "The Real Hustle". Is this series, 3 con artists make some scams and extract some money from the marks (aka the victims). The basic idea of the show is to educate viewers about the different types of scams and how to avoid becoming a victim. After the scam, all the victims have their money returned and the con/scam explained.
If you are interested in topics such as social engineering, hacking, card and bar tricks, personal security and such, you will want to watch (all) the videos in YouTube. There are more than 30, with an average of 5 minutes each. The best way to watch them all is to begin by searching for all the movies uploaded by the user kamranakthar and then searching for "The real hustle".
But be aware, once you start, it will be difficult for you to say no to the next one. You have been warned.
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Posted by bordalix
Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:36:00 GMT
A pair of security researchers has picked January 2007 as the starting point for a month-long project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple's OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it.
The "Month of Apple Bugs" project, began on Jan. 1, and is being orchestrated in part by a security researcher who asked to be identified only by his online alias "LMH." This is the same researcher who in November ran the "Month of Kernel Bugs" project. LMH's partner in this project is Kevin Finisterre, a researcher who has reported numerous bugs to Apple over the past few years.
The security researchers told the Washington Post that, as with Apple bugs featured during the MoKB project, Apple would receive no advanced notice of the forthcoming security problems. The security researchers hope to use the project to dispel the perception that Apple systems are free of the security bugs that have long plagued Windows users.
In two days, as promised, two bugs have been publicized, all of which allows for remote arbitrary code execution:
Is this the end of the "bulletproof" Mac?
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Posted by bordalix
Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:44:00 GMT
8 years ago I gave my first presentation on network security. It's a hard topic, and the worst parts were explaining how cryptography works, and explaining software bugs as the buffer overflow or a race condition. Meanwhile, Wired as made an amazing job explaining the formers with an
animation. You don't get the cryptography how to (guess prime numbers theory is really hard to draw) but instead you can have a glance at some moments of really
bad software.
Update:NSA's site for
CryptoKids.
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