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Where do these TV shows come from? Follows the adventures of the Cuylers, an impoverished and dysfunctional family of anthropomorphic, air-breathing, redneck squids who live in a rural Appalachian community in the US state of Georgia....

The Washington Post has published a phenomenal piece of investigative journalism: a long, detailed, and very interesting expose on the U.S. intelligence industry (overall website; parts 1, 2, and 3; blog; Washington reactions; top 10 revelations; many many many blog comments and reactions; and so on). It's a truly excellent piece of investigative journalism. Pity people don't care much about...

In addition to stuxnet which has been using the LNK vulnerability to exploit systems since approxima ...(more)...

Stuxnet is a new Internet worm that specifically targets Siemens WinCC SCADA systems: used to control production at industrial plants such as oil rigs, refineries, electronics production, and so on. The worm seems to uploads plant info (schematics and production information) to an external website. Moreover, owners of these SCADA systems cannot change the default password because it would cause...

When teaching Security Essentials (sec401) we often talk about one of the more useful hacking tools ...(more)...

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Usually when I receive an email that looks like spam, I can just mash my Send to Junk ke ...(more)...

Interesting: The use of profiling by ethnicity or nationality to trigger secondary security screening is a controversial social and political issue. Overlooked is the question of whether such actuarial methods are in fact mathematically justified, even under the most idealized assumptions of completely accurate prior probabilities, and secondary screenings concentrated on the highest-probablity individuals. We show here that strong profiling...

A book on GCHQ, and two reviews. EDITED TO ADD (7/26): Another review....

Note that this malware does NOT exploit 'Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Exec ...(more)...

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A Dell support forum post confirms that PowerEdge R410 replacement motherboards contain malware. The ...(more)...

Adobe have announced that Reader will run in a sandbox called Protected Mode blogs.adobe ...(more)...

Microsoft have updated their security advisory 'Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Co ...(more)...

Interesting journal article evaluating the EU's counterterrorism efforts....

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According to the arguments presented by Handler Lenny when the Infocon level was increased, we belie ...(more)...

For all those who like truecrypt, version 7.0 is out there ...(more)...