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Author: Will Chatham
Will Chatham is the Security Assessment Engineer for Arbor Networks. Since Netscape 2.0, he has worked in a wide array of environments including non-profit, corporate, small business, and government. He started as a web developer, moved into Linux system administration, and ultimately found his place as a security professional. Having most recently conquered the OSCP certification, Will continues to hack his way into various things in an effort to make them more secure.
I wrote previously about Facebook hacking, which is something everyone needs to be aware of, but there is a more immediate Facebook danger which millions of people every day are already exploited by. Not only could it lead to insecurity, but your personal data is being exposed to advertisers every time you take one of those “What kind of hamburger are you” quizzes.
Facebook applications get access to all data of users who sign up, though users sign up for dozens of one-time use applications like these quizzes without thinking twice. There are hundreds of applications springing up every day, and Facebook’s model of implementing no technical sandboxing and policing applications when things go wrong is completely unscalable.
This applies to RedHat Enterprise 4 & 5, and by association to Fedora and CentOS. It probably works on some other distros as well, but your mileage may vary.
I am constantly having to reset user passwords, as I use the “three failures and your account is locked” schema, as well as set passwords to expire every 60 days.
I guess that stock photography libraries just don’t have that many images of blind guys sitting at a computer with a cane. Why not just whip out Photoshop and add your own glasses and cane? I mean — it’s software for blind people, so no one will notice, right? Freedom…
The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit. Being a former professional locksmith of 7 years, and an aficionado of the art of picking and bypassing locks, I found this article to hit pretty close to home. It is a fascinating look into the brain…
“I think that they say that Rush Limbaugh is the 800 lb. gorilla in the Republican Party, but I think that’s mean spirited to say that because I think he’s down to 650 lbs., so I think one should be fair to him about this whole thing.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger via…