Confessions of a Caller-ID spoofer

He spoofed the HR director's work phone number, then the number of that guy's boss, before moving up to a vice president, and finally, the CEO. Says he had no choice. He also says "this thing that I did is bad and should be outlawed." He even spoofed a White House number. Fascinating full interview.

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Huge Leak: Database of 8,700+ stolen cooperate FTP accounts

The stolen credentials belong to companies from around the world and include more than 2500 North American companies, some of which are the world's top 100 domains, according to security company Finjan. The ISP hosting the db has been notified but they still have not removed it. Finjan says companies can email them to check if their info was stolen

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Microsoft To Acquire Enterprise Anti-Virus Security Provider Sybari Softwar

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed definitive agreements to acquire Sybari Software Inc., a leading provider of security products that help more than 10,000 businesses worldwide protect their messaging and collaboration servers from viruses, worms and spam.

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IT industry's 12-point security plan

The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), a consultative body of computer security professionals, yesterday published a 12-point list for securing America's IT infrastructure.

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Facebook Voter Registration App Asks for SSN w/o SSL

Encouraging young people to vote is a great idea, but asking for social security numbers with no encryption or security whatsoever is downright retardulous.

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MediaDefender Hacker Speaks Out

In September 2007, anti-piracy company MediaDefender's emails went public after a hacker gained access to their systems. The attacks cost the company a huge amount of money, not to mention acute embarrassment. Now the person behind the attacks speaks.

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Hackers Run Wild Spending BitTorrent Tracker’s Donations

The SuperTorrents BitTorrent tracker has been the subject of a major security breach, with hackers donating all the site's money to a religious group. The hackers even went as far as contacting the site's host and canceled all of their seedboxes.

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Big Brother Is Listening ... And Listening ... And Listening

"The NSA intercepts entire streams of electronic communications containing millions of telephone calls and e-mails. It runs the intercepts through very powerful computers that screen them for particular names, telephone numbers, Internet addresses, and trigger words or phrases. Any communications containing flagged information" are analyzed.

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Microsofts' spy patent can monitor even your heartbeat

Every aspect of computer users’ lives — from their heartbeat to a guilty smile — could be monitored and immediately analysed under the futuristic system detailed in Microsoft’s patent application. The systems work not only through desktop or laptop computers but even through mobile phones or handheld PCs

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The Pirates Can't Be Stopped

Ethan and I had first started talking over an untraceable prepaid phone...He eventually agrees to speak in person...He hands me a flash drive containing documents...He also pulls out a...sheet of paper bearing my name, the first five digits of my Social Security number, a few pictures...and addresses going back 10 years. "I had to check," he said.

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