L33tdawg: Video of their talk from #HITB2013AMS is available on YouTube.Products frequently follow a trajectory from customized prototypes to mass-produced goods, and -- when the market matures --... read more
Featured Slideshow
GOV
CISPA veto recommended by White House
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-04-26 05:16
Not a fan of CISPA? Fear not. President Barack Obama isn’t either. A Wednesday e-mail released by the Office of Management and Budget made very clear that should the bill reach the president’s desk in its current form, "his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill."
- Read more about CISPA veto recommended by White House
- Log in or register to post comments
- 956 reads
Secret Alan Turing papers released by GCHQ
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sat, 2012-04-21 10:35
Mathematical papers written by WWII code breaker and pioneer computer scientist Alan Turing have been released by government intelligence agency GCHQ after being kept secret 70 years.
The two handwritten papers, classified as 'sensitive' until a recent reassessment and kept confidential for over half a century, are said by GCHQ to have been authored by Turing when he worked at Bletchley Park, the code-breaking centre of British intelligence during the war.
- Read more about Secret Alan Turing papers released by GCHQ
- Log in or register to post comments
- 1638 reads
Hackers targeting governments with hijacked sites
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sat, 2012-04-21 06:21
Malicious code planted within compromised pages has become the latest method for attackers targeting government organisations.
Researchers with security firm Zscaler have reported a number of government-affiliated sites which have been found to contain code which directs users to attack servers.
- Read more about Hackers targeting governments with hijacked sites
- Log in or register to post comments
- 1243 reads
Malaysian government washes hands of computing bill, wants industry to fix it
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-04-18 08:42
The Malaysian government has abandoned consultations with stakeholders over a law to regulate the information technology (IT) industry, telling the private sector to “sort it out among yourself first,” before making any further decision on the matter.
The science, technology and innovation ministry (Mosti) has not amended the controversial draft of the Computing Professionals Bill 2011 (CPB2011) that surfaced in December nor held any meetings with stakeholders after opening the proposed law up to the public for a month ending in mid-January.
- Read more about Malaysian government washes hands of computing bill, wants industry to fix it
- Log in or register to post comments
- 1569 reads
Court to DOJ: Surfing on Work PC Isn't Hacking
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-04-11 06:13
Have you ever checked your personal email from a work computer? The idea that checking email, or a quick visit to Facebook, Twitter or other any social media site might be considered "hacking" and land you in prison is preposterous. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals injected a dose of sanity into the government's insane push to make people criminals under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for violating their employer's computer use policy. The 9-2 decision in U.S. v.
- Read more about Court to DOJ: Surfing on Work PC Isn't Hacking
- Log in or register to post comments
- 1230 reads