During my daily RSS OCD reading I had to deal with this article: it has been written by a “senior anti-virus researcher at Kaspersky Lab’s“. Talk about personal interest. I wont comment on the practical implications of useless signature based AV’s and how cyber criminals will never need amateur-ish projects to carry on their malicious tactics. But what [...]
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Conventionality is not morality.
Published by August 6th, 2009 in business, cybercrime and security. 0 Comments
Hackers hacking hackers are always pretty fun. And I am not talking about ZF05 (which was cool reading, even if not as cool as ~El8 was), I am talking about this.
This is big business, this is the American way
Published by July 31st, 2009 in cybercrime, security and technology. 0 Comments43 years old “UFO eccentric” hacker Gary McKinnon just loses appeal against his extradition to the States for computer crimes he committed 7 years ago. If you’ve lived under a rock during the last few years what this dude did was basically break into .gov computers looking for UFO related material. Probably the last case of recreational [...]