Another goodie from Slashdot:
“folks at GNU Citizen have been researching UPNP Vulnerabilities in home routers, and have produced a flash swf file capable of opening open ports into your network simply by visiting an unfortunate URL. Looks like Firefox & Safari users are safe for now.”
Wow.
This article from Slashdot ought to get you thinking! Read this:
“National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is currently helping to draft a new Cyber-Security Policy that could make the debate over warrantless wiretaps seem like a petty squabble. The new policy would allow the government to access to the content of any email, file transfer, or web search.”
Dang. Don’t that just sound like a whole lot of fun?
In an article on Slashdot, we find that Network Solutions (NSI) has been caught registering every domain name that users check for availability from their whois service. So, if you check to see if foo.com is available, and it is but you don’t register it immediately, they register it out from under you. Nice job there NSI, way to provide a good service to the customer. I have long suspected that someone was doing this, but I didn’t think the registrar was. Wow. Just goes to show that my aversion to dealing with this low life company was not incorrect.
Read more here …
It seems that the folks at GraffitiCMS, who make a competitor to WordPress, are aligning with Presidential hopefuls and slinging mud to promote their product even though it isn’t out of beta yet. I found the article here, I am not going to give them the satisfaction of linking to the original. Let’s take a walk though their arguments, shall we?
Yet again my preachings of security ring true. Vulnerabilities can hide anywhere! This one is in an update tool from HP/Compaq. Be careful!
I for one used to be a huge Sony fan. I loved their electronic products, and I was a big fan of their games (EQ, SWG, etc.). However, between what they didn’t to the players of their games, treating us like cattle or morons or something and what they did to people who bought their music CD’s, they lost favor with me and now I avoid Sony like the plague. For anyone who has been sleeping under a rock for the last few years, Sony put a software rootkit on their music CD’s, so if you popped that sucker into your computer, it infected your computer and spied on you. All in the name of DMCA and anti-piracy. Well, there is an article over at ars technica about it, examining what lead to it all. It’s an interesting read, check it out.
From the article:
“In a new paper examining the Sony BMG rootkit fiasco, a pair of lawyers argue that the music company didn’t just damage itself—it unwittingly struck a blow against DRM in general.”