I know I hacked your systems, but I was doing you a favour!

This is not strictly a new argument for defending oneself against charges of hacking: a Romanian hacker claims he was doing a favour to the US Department of Energy, NASA and the Navy by highlighting vulnerabilities in their systems. He managed to escape a custodial sentence in Romania, let's see if that argument is also "heard" by US courts...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/11/us_navy_hack_sentencing/
Is there some room at Guantanamo Bay still ?

UK Identities are worth £80.- according to a BBC report

Prices range from £5 to £80 depending on how complete the "package" is:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7732569.stm

Nigerian scam: do we ever learn?

Can you believe this?
http://www.katu.com/news/34292654.html
Greed, always a powerful force...

Best patch this one!

It is not often that Microsoft release so-called "Out Of Band" patches, so best apply this one:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958644

There are already worms out there exploiting this particular vulnerability:
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojgimmiva.html?_log_from=rss

Mr-T strikes Back

Just reading the ha.ckers blog and a link was given to the Master Reconaissence Tool (MR-T). http://ha.ckers.org/mr-t/. This is an ace tool that can be used for user education to show how much info is leaked just by going on the net!

Crazy Fool!

dD

Nevermind Alice and Bob, read about S, A and H...

Right to silence is not enough, you have to give us the encryption keys:
http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=9514

NSA shows us how to write secure code

The Tokeneer project was commisioned by the NSA, and has now been released to the community. The idea is to show that code can be written to comply with the Common Criteria EAL 5:
http://www.adacore.com/home/gnatpro/tokeneer/