In Waldo, people have held prayer vigils and protests aimed at an adult bookstore along US 301, trying to keep the "Cafe Risque" from opening its doors on time."Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.
A man found guilty of sexually assaulting a child has been given 10 years of probation by a judge who said the man was too small to survive prison.Nothing bad happened to me, but it could have, for two reasons.
The first reason is that whenever you do something “unnecessary”, such as reporting a vulnerability, police wonder why, and how you found out. Police also wonders if you found one vulnerability, could you have found more and not reported them? Who did you disclose that information to? Did you get into the web site, and do anything there that you shouldn’t have? It’s normal for the police to think that way. They have to. Unfortunately, it makes it very uninteresting to report any problems.
The second reason that bad things could have happened to me is that I’m stubborn and believe that in a university setting, it should be acceptable for students who stumble across a problem to report vulnerabilities anonymously through an approved person (e.g., a staff member or faculty) and mechanism. Why anonymously? Because student vulnerability reporters are akin to whistleblowers.
At least two St. Louis gas station owners or managers say somebody is breaking into gas pumps, reprogramming interior keypads and instructing the machines to dispense fuel at no charge.
Free gas is certainly not what the gas station owners had in mind.
Kevin Tippit is manager of the Phillips 66 at Lindell and Boyle in St. Louis. Tippit says his boss lost between $6,000 and $10,000 worth of gas Friday before a regular customer tipped-off an employee.
"They (the thieves) have a key to the pump and then after they open up the pump they go in and they reprogram the pump, so they can have free gas. And then everybody behind them sees what they're doing, and they continue," says Tippit.
Narcotics officers found the Professional Ordnance Carbon-15 Type-97 pistol in the car of a drug suspect in Newark and noticed it was a cut above the usual weaponry employed by local drug dealers, Fontoura said.
Per a BBC report, The Times and The Register the judge who presided over the failed Da Vinci Code plagiarism case at London's High Court hid his own secret code in his written judgement.Policies requiring regular password changes (e.g., monthly) are an example of exactly this form of infosec folk wisdom.
From a high-level perspective, let me observe that one problem with any widespread change policy is that it fails to take into account the various threats and other defenses that may be in place. Policies should always be based on a sound understanding of risks, vulnerabilities, and defenses. “Best practice” is intended as a default policy for those who don’t have the necessary data or training to do a reasonable risk assessment.
Full story here.It was like a scene from a horror film: A 27-year-old man plummeted into a gaping hole that suddenly opened beneath a house, trapping him beneath foundation rubble and killing him.
"It's unbelievable," Placer County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Dena Erwin said. "From the front of the house, it's absolutely normal. Then, in the middle of the house, is this enormous hole."
The victim was awake and on the ground floor about 9:30 p.m. Friday when the concrete foundation near the kitchen gave way, sending him plunging into to the ground, Erwin said.
From F-Secure Blog...
Lazy phishers are often simply making a copy of the original bank site with some malicious modifications. As an example, take a look at this currently active phishing site targeting Chase Bank.
This phishing site is running on an infected home computer in Spain. Only the html is hosted there; all the images are actually loaded directly from a real chase.com server.
Now, activity like this could be detected by the website of the bank automatically. How about modifying the logic of the bank web server to do something along these lines:
If somebody
a) loads my images but
b) does not load the corresponding html file and
c) has http referrer -values outside of my domain
then, for this user, lets change this image:
to this image:
This could be activated only after the activity has happened from, say, 10 different IP addresses, to make it harder for the attackers to spot it until it's too late.
And, in most cases the REFERRER fields would directly point the bank staff to the real phishing site which they could now start closing down.
Eventually, attackers would move to host their own images, but for now they still typically don't.
