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		<title>Cyber-Attack: Did Sony Deserve It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 18:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2011, well-known computer hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz discovered and published the keys to the Sony PlayStation 3 game console.&#160; GeoHot had previously cracked the iPhone, allowing users to “jailbreak” their phone and run any software they want. Crack Goes the PS3 Around the same time, another hacker group fail0verflow had also cracked the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Idiocy of Emailing Plaintext Passwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 15:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are at a cocktail party.&#160; You are having a private conversation with someone you thought was a trusted business associate.&#160; You lean forward and whisper confidential information in his ear.&#160; He immediately repeats what you said aloud. Your secret may not be exposed – depending on whether anyone is within earshot – but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Hackers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a standard movie cliché: A hacker pounds away on his keyboard for 30 seconds to break a military-grade encryption scheme.&#160; Nevermind that in real life it would take 8.4 million CPU years to factorize a 1024-bit number in software.&#160; (Although the days of total security with 1024-bit RSA are coming to an end.)]]></description>
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		<title>Blonde Password</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent security audit, a company discovered that a blonde employee was using the following password: “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento” When the company asked the blonde why she had such a long password, she said the login screen required the password to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital. From Politically Incorrect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catch Your Friends Watching Porn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to snoop on your friends’ porn viewing habits?  Then follow these simple steps: Step 1.  Copy and paste some code into a widget on your website or blog. Step 2.  Send you friends to the webpage where you put the widget.  Their porn history will be captured in the widget. Step 3.  See what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language More funny stuff]]></description>
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		<title>High-Tech Keyboard Spy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presenters at the CanSecWest security conference detailed how to sniff data by analyzing keystroke vibrations using a laser pointed at a laptop computer, or through electrical signals coming from a PS/2 keyboard on a PC plugged into an electrical socket. Using about $80 worth of equipment, researchers pointed a laser on the reflective surface of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secure Delete Requires Only One Overwrite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades we’ve been told by security software vendors that to truly delete data from a hard drive, you have to overwrite the data multiple times with different patterns of 0s and 1s.  But now we can file this away with other computer urban legends. Computer forensics expert Craig Wright and his colleagues ran a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experts from more than 30 U.S. and international cyber-security organizations jointly released a consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and cyber-crime. The impact of these programming errors is significant.&#160; Just two of these errors resulted in more than 1.5 million website security breaches during 2008.&#160; These breaches [...]]]></description>
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