9th August 2008 Archive
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Agency sues to stop Defcon speakers from revealing gaping holes
Defcon Sorry, Charlie
A transit agency in New England has filed a federal lawsuit to stop three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates from publicly presenting research at Defcon demonstrating gaping security holes in two of the agency's electronic payment systems. The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) also named MIT in the …
Security 9 Aug 2008, 06:08
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McKinnon UFO hack 'looked like cyberterrorist attack'
Axis of eccentricity
US prosecutors involved in the long-running fight to extradite the British Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon have defended their dogged pursuit of the UFO hunter. McKinnon's hack looked for all the world like an attack by cyberterrorists, according to Scott Christie, a former assistant US attorney of New Jersey. McKinnon is …
Security 9 Aug 2008, 07:53
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Linux risks netbooks defeat to Microsoft
Small window of opportunity
Ubuntu-based things do well in tech circles, but the consumer space is different, as gOS discovered when Wal-Mart blamed poor demand from baseball caps and mullets for its decision to stop selling Linux-loaded PCs. David Liu, chief executive of Emeryville, California-based gOS, is undaunted. Indeed he is optimistic that Linux …
The Channel 9 Aug 2008, 10:02
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Ohio official sues e-vote vendor for sloppy counting
Two plus two makes five isn't good enough?
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner wants an electronic voting machine vendor to pay for dropping hundreds of votes in the state's March primary election. In a filing at Franklin County Common Pleas Court, Brunner seeks unspecified damages from Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold. She claims Premier made false …
Government 9 Aug 2008, 12:02
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Surfing Google may be harmful to your security
Defcon When gadgets attack
A well-known researcher specializing in website security has strongly criticized safety on Google, arguing the world's biggest search engine needlessly puts its millions of users at risk. "Google is and will be and always has been vulnerable," Robert Hansen, CEO of secTheory, told a standing-room-only audience at the Defcon …
Security 9 Aug 2008, 13:02
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Federal judge halts Defcon talk on subway card hacking
Defcon Barn door closed a little too late
A federal judge on Saturday gagged three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates from publicly presenting research at Defcon demonstrating gaping holes in the electronic payment systems of one of the nation's biggest transit agencies. US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock issued the order at the request of the …
Security 9 Aug 2008, 20:52
