[ad] Now this is pretty disgusting behaviour from a national telco provider, but well is it really surprising in Dubai? For me..no it’s not. I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time in Dubai on various projects, and my first surprise was Flickr being blocked. Especially as Dubai is probably the most liberal place in the […]
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Smart Grid Security Risks – Not So Smart Electricity Meters
[ad] You might recall we’ve discussed the security of Industrial Control Systems before, the latest ‘evolution’ is the so called Smart Grid. Which in all honestly, doesn’t seem to be very smart at all. In basic terms they are trying to turn the power-grid into a two way communication medium so consumers homes can report […]
Hospital Hacker GhostExodus Owns Himself – Arrested
This story actually gave me a lot of LULZ, how stupid can you be seriously? Man this guy made so many mistakes for someone so paranoid (he had a web cam setup outside his appartment door so he could see who was coming).. But then he exposed his IP address on IRC, posted his face […]
FBI Unclassified E-mail Network Owned By Virus
[ad] If the FBI e-mail network can get owned by a virus, what hope does the average joe have when it comes to keeping their e-mail secure? It must be pretty serious too if it actually forced them to shut down the Internet facing e-mail network, it seems like it was down for at least […]
Israel Hacker ‘The Analyzer’ Steals Over $10 Million USD
[ad] It’s seems like a new hacker is in the sights of the US Government, this time it’s Ehud Tenenbaum AKA ‘The Analyzer’. He seems to have been quite sloppy about covering his tracks and remaining under the radar, he acts as if no-one can get him. Perhaps he knows something we don’t? Anyway he’s […]