Archive for October, 2007

CAPTCHA Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me? – TrendLabs | Malware Blog – by Trend Micro

by @ Monday, October 29th, 2007. Filed under Security

CAPTCHA Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me? – TrendLabs | Malware Blog – by Trend Micro ——- Pretty obvious.

Tommy Emmanuel – Guitar Boogie

by @ Monday, October 29th, 2007. Filed under Music

An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online

by @ Saturday, October 27th, 2007. Filed under Security

Elahi’s site is the perfect alibi. Or an audacious art project. Or both. The Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed him on its terrorist watch list — and once you’re on, it’s hard to get off. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they [...]

TJX Failed to Notice Thieves Moving 80-GBytes of Data on its Network on Threat Level

by @ Friday, October 26th, 2007. Filed under Security

More information about the TJX data theft is coming out in court papers filed this week against the retail company. Earlier this week it was reported that the breach of customer credit and debit card info was much larger than previously thought, with about 96 million customers being affected by the breach, as opposed to [...]

One Nation Under a Groove.

by @ Thursday, October 25th, 2007. Filed under Music, movie reviews and thoughts

Known to its legions of fans simply as P-Funk, Parliament Funkadelic has had a profound impact on the development of contemporary music, aesthetics and culture. PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC: One Nation Under a Groove chronicles the unique alchemy of the musical influences that fed into the band’s singular approach to music, documenting P-Funk’s continuing influence on today’s [...]

Feisty to Gutsy upgrade

by @ Thursday, October 25th, 2007. Filed under Technology

So, I tried the move from Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon again last night. The first time, I got no hardware support (wired and wireless nics down, no video, no sound) and vmware wouldn’t run (error, unsupported operating system). This time it actually went almost perfectly. I had to tweak a couple things to get [...]

Techdirt: A Modest Proposal: Don’t Try To Censor Students Who Have This Thing We Call The Internet

by @ Wednesday, October 24th, 2007. Filed under Misc

Techdirt: A Modest Proposal: Don’t Try To Censor Students Who Have This Thing We Call The Internet

Deke Trudeau on Deke Bush and “branding” at Phi

by @ Wednesday, October 24th, 2007. Filed under Misc

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau ’70 said he thinks a little-known fact about President George W. Bush ’68′s past — that his first mention in The New York Times occurred in 1967 when, as former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity’s practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat [...]

The Patriot of Guantanamo Bay

by @ Sunday, October 21st, 2007. Filed under Misc, political perspective

Well into the night of Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz sat alone at his desk in the headquarters of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, consumed with a new project. … Sitting at a secure desktop computer, he printed out page after page of classified information, pulling each batch from [...]

psad – Intrusion Detection with iptables, iptables Log Analysis, iptables Policy Analysis

by @ Saturday, October 20th, 2007. Filed under Security

Psad is a collection of three lightweight system daemons (two main daemons and one helper daemon) that run on Linux machines and analyze iptables log messages to detect port scans and other suspicious traffic. A typical deployment is to run psad on the iptables firewall where it has the fastest access to log data: psad

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