Archive for 2011/10/28

Kevin Mitnick Rates Today’s Blackhats

Posted: 2011/10/28 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/pl_printmitnick/

Despite Iraq Vet’s Cracked Skull, DoJ Sees No Evil in Occupy Crackdown

Posted: 2011/10/28 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/doj-occupy-crackdown/

Fact check clears Czech in botnet case – Redmond removes dotFREE from defendant list

Posted: 2011/10/28 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/27/dotfree_off_the_hook/

Warner Bros. wants the 28-day window between sales and rentals of new DVDs and Blu-ray discs it’s negotiated with Netflix and Redbox to be even longer and it wants big retail chains like Blockbuster to submit to the window, too

Posted: 2011/10/28 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/end-dvd-rental/

If the government really wants to protect the nation’s electrical grid and critical infrastructure from hackers and other attackers, it’s got to change the way it communicates with the people in charge of securing those systems

Posted: 2011/10/28 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/infrastructure-at-risk/

The Arab Spring. The Fall of the Soviet Union. India’s nukes. The U.S. government has a perfectly awful track record of predicting future events. And there’s a good reason why, says the chairman of an influential think tank: it’s friggin’ impossible

Posted: 2011/10/28 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/danzig-military-predictions/