Не так давно наше "Управление "К" обнаружило "подозрительную активность китайских хакеров", о чем не преминуло нам всем сообщить. Мне, конечно, радостно от того, что на страже наших с вами компьютеров кто-то как бы стоит, но после прочтения статьи напрашивается естественный вопрос: а дальше-то что? Неужели захлопнутся за "китайскими хакерами" ворота русского СИЗО? Неужели никто не будет больше грозить ботнетами нашим южным границам?

Важная часть любого пентеста - сбор данных об удаленной системе. Более того, именно с разведки и начинается атака на удаленный хост. Чем больше известно о виртуальном противнике, тем проще отыскать инструменты, чтобы отправить его в нокдаун

A New Jersey man has been charged with stealing the p2p.com domain name and selling it to a professional basketball player for more than $111,000 in the first US indictment for domain name theft.

A Romanian national has admitted he defrauded Bank of America of about $150,000 in a scheme that secretly recorded customer information as it was entered into automatic teller machines.

Start-up InZero Systems Tuesday makes its debut with a security service that promises to protect PCs from possible malware, intrusions and other types of attacks.

Good news for devotees of ponytailed crypto guru of all our hearts Bruce Schneier: it's now possible to buy an officially endorsed "Bruce Schneier action figure".

After 12 months in development, Metasploit version 3.3 is available to the masses. The new version packs in a ton of features, fixes, exploits, and payloads, thanks to contributions from the community.

Self-proclaimed anti-fascist hackers have struck a major blow at controversial World War II historian David Irving by taking down two of his websites and publishing scores of his emails and private information.

The release of Fedora 12 will mark the fourth major operating system update this fall. Codenamed 'Constantine' and like the three previous OS releases, Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10 openSUSE 11.2, the Linux based Fedora 12 comes packed with a variety of improvements and new features.

The ability of several countries to launch politically-motivated cyber-attacks has increased and put critical infrastructure in the crosshairs, according to a sweeping report from McAfee.

Microsoft is creating technology to give businesses more fine-grained control over access to data stored in the company's upcoming SQL Azure database cloud service, a senior engineer said today. Code-named Vidalia, the technology will provide "trustworthy data collaboration for highly sensitive business data across disparate trust domains," said Microsoft technical fellow Dave Campbell in a talk at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 (PDC09) in Los Angeles.

From the Pirate Bay blog:

Why would you want to build a 100-strong swarm of mini robots? Well, aside from having them as your minions, you might be able to learn about "artificial self-organization," and "control in large robotic groups," which should come in useful during the inevitable robot insurrection. The swarm robot project, undertaken by the Universities of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe in Germany, aims to produce mini drones that can communicate with one another to avoid collisions, while keeping to a volume of less than three centimeters cubed

Сам я пользовался разными средствами резервного копирования, от простых, вроде стандартного backup Windows, до корпоративных. Как пользователя меня естественно подкупила "Машина времени" от Apple. Но я знаю и то, что мне в ней не нравится

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