This and That

Three French reporters attending the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas for Global Security Magazine, were booted and banned for life after they allegedly sniffed the private network set up for the press.

At Black Hat and Defcon, you are almost guaranteed to be sniffed, hacked
and owned by attendees, but the private press network is a different
story.

http://www.infosecnews.org/pipermail/isn/2008-August/016698.html

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And I thought the MVP Global Summit was huge.

Annual Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX)

This year it was in Atlanta, where 13,000 Microsoft employees, sales and marketing types, and evangelists gathered…

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Perhaps another small business victim of Walmart’s low prices in a small town.

Now there is nowhere to take the baby hamsters, the birds, buy crickets and fish; no animal store to receive one on one service with friendly banter and hear pet stories that make your day.

Just an ugly box in town with employees who seem to want to go home.

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Having considered the expert in Experts Exchange to equate with picking up subscribers, I was interested in Corrine’s post at The Security Garden.

Bah! Experts Exchange = Scam Artists

Last week when I read Ed Bott’s Dear Google: Please take pay sites out of search results, I was pleased to see that I am not the only person who has been frustrated with finding that the search results link led to the Experts Exchange. I have always thought that the site is a sad joke.

Try searching the site or clicking on the Trial Membership link and learn that these scam artists are charging an outrageous fee for information provided/collected by other people.

Hmmm, food for thought. There is a wealth of knowledge and assistance available without having to pay for it, provided by forum volunteers, MVPs and Microsoft. Please see my links in the right hand column on the ‘Articles’ page.

Corrine’s complete article

Update: I was informed one doesn’t have to pay to see the answers, one just has to wade through all the advertisements and shady tactics to get a user to register. Ok but I’m simply looking for responses to a user’s problem by performing a Google search which brings up the links.

All comments and solutions are available to Premium Service Members only.

I tried to take a look at a HJT log attachment and received this message:

You must login to access the file you requested

Signin using your Experts-Exchange username and password.

Why would anyone bother to jump through all the hoops and ads when other free help sites have volunteer experts you can post to, or simply read their answers without all that?

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Apple is taking advantage of its Software Update program, in my case for iTunes, to barge its way onto computers and push Safari 3.1 Web browser for Mac OS and Windows XP/Vista.

It’s bad enough I have to take QuickTime along with iTunes, but really this is too much. The nag comes up with every reboot.

Apple, did I ask? Thanks but no thanks, the updater is now gone.

Edit: If you do the same, be sure to check frequently for Apple security updates.

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Paperghost:

Bad enough that this idiot cut and pasted the above text from another, entirely unrelated hacking sites’ mailshot - even worse that he thought it’d be a good idea to send it to me. If I had to sum up the potential for extreme mischief that such a mail could generate, I think this would be a pretty good summary:

Choose! Choose the form of your Destructor!

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Brian Gardner’s Revolution Pro.

Please excuse the construction and use the Blog tab rather than Home for the moment, lots to learn.

It will be fun, no really…

Update: Blog tab is now “Articles”

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Paperghost continues zapping phishing script kiddie sites, serious business but quite a funny saga when carried out batman style.

This time he enrolled a mom’s support with hilarious results.
How to give a wannabe hacker a very bad day

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The official, full length, high quality version from Channel 10.

It’s a clever funny video which made me laugh, although I also felt a twinge of nostalgia at the same time.

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