kyriacos - Slashdot User

Submission + - Samsung Smart TV Bug Allows Remote Access, Root Privileges (threatpost.com)

Submitted by kyriacos on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @07:26PM

kyriacos writes: Threatpost reports: "It turns out that some smart TVs are a little too smart for their own good--and the good of users. Some specific models of Samsung TVs that have Wi-Fi and other advanced capabilities have a flaw that enables an attacker to take a variety of actions on the TV, including accessing potentially sensitive data, remote files and information, the drive image and eventually gain root access to the device."

Submission + - Anonymous Attacks Greek Finance Ministry, Classified Documents Leaked (greekreporter.com)

Submitted by kyriacos on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @09:12AM

kyriacos writes: The leaked documents include various classified data: from e-mails that were exchanged between the Greek Ministry and envoys from international lenders negotiating more austerity measures and bailouts, to thousands of passwords of Greek individuals and evaluations of banks.

Submission + - Journalist arrested in Greece for publishing list of possible tax-evaders

Submitted by kyriacos on Sunday October 28, 2012 @04:25PM

kyriacos writes: The Greek government is charging journalist Kostas Vaxevanis with violation of the data privacy law. While more and more austerity measures are being taken against the people of Greece, there is still no investigation of tax evasion for the people on this list by the government. The list has been in the possession of the Greek government since 2010. More information here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20116548

Comment Re:Good boyyy!!!! You're going to get a treat, UK! (Score 1) 212

by kyriacos on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @06:44PM (#41003021) Attached to: 'Pirate' Website Owner Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison

We are the god damned lapdogs, the idiots who download all kinds of movies, sitcoms and what not, because we need to occupy our minds with crap. God forbid we read an extra book or get some exercise instead. I'm under the impression that this war broke out simply because it makes the products seem more valuable than they actually are.

Comment Re:Legalise drug trade (Score 1) 627

by kyriacos on Saturday September 17, 2011 @05:46AM (#37427698) Attached to: Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers

I agree that legalizing drugs will bring down the associated crime rate and will probably also result in less substance abuse, but I think what most people fail to realize is that the main opponent of legalization is the drug cartels. They are the ones who are not letting this happen, and they will either bribe or wipe out any government that attempts to move towards that direction.

Submission + - NoW whistle-blower Sean Hoare found dead (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by kyriacos on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @10:08AM

kyriacos writes: BBC News writes:

"A former News of the World journalist who made phone-hacking allegations against the paper has been found dead at his home in Watford.

"Mr Hoare had told the New York Times hacking was far more extensive than the paper acknowledged when police first investigated hacking claims.

"A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious.

Submission + - How to build a VM honeypot?

Submitted by jongleur_kit on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @07:55AM

jongleur_kit writes: Today I received the latest in a series of scam phone calls. This time it was the "ammyy scam," in which the scammer tries to get you to install a remote access program. After playing dumb for a while to see how they operate I had to stop there and confront them on their nefarious methods (they get you to open your Windows event log and tell you that the errors and warnings are undelete-able "viruses" and hence you need their services). At that point they immediately hung up.

I was frustrated that I couldn't go further with this and collect more information on the scammers. I have an MSc in Computer Science, and I think it would be a fun project to create a honeypot for just such instances.

I assume a good honeypot would involve a VM and some active (nmap) scanning and also some passive (p0f) scanning, ideally with the ability to record sequences of actions on my box if I let them in.

Can anyone point me to a good forum or how-to guide on this, or give some advice in this thread? What would a good setup include?

Finally, I am a US citizen now living in the UK, and I have no idea what the legal context is here. What are the rules in the UK regarding entrapment, etc.? What if I were to run a few of these and post information (like IP addresses, phone numbers, etc.) in a blog post? Is that legal here?

Thanks

PS: I'm cross-posting this over at Reddit under user name abplayer.

Submission + - New Report: Fat America Keeps Getting Fatter (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by

kkleiner

on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @06:13AM

kkleiner writes: "A report just out, from non-profits Robert Wood Foundation and Trust for America’s Heath (TFAH), has the feel of an environmental armageddon. And the title says it all: “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future.” Chew on this: going back 20 years there wasn’t a single state with an obesity rate above 15 percent. Today, there isn’t a single state that’s below 15 percent!"

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 205

by kyriacos on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @06:51AM (#29184203) Attached to: Facebook App Exposes Abject Insecurity

But, every time you install an FB app, it DOES ask you if you wish to allow the app to have full access to your information. So, if you don't feel comfortable, don't click that button!

That's true, but when I add a friend, I get no warning that this person has so many apps installed, and that these apps can have access to my information through this person.

Submission + - iPhone App Tracks Sex Offenders

Submitted by

The Narrative Fallacy

on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @06:45AM

The Narrative Fallacy writes: "All 50 states in the US require the 50,000 people convicted of sexual offenses to sign a register so that their whereabouts can be tracked and monitored. The Telegraph reports that now users of the iPhone Offender Locator application can search for sex offenders living nearby a friend or colleague whose address is stored in their Apple iPhone address book, or they can type in a street address to generate a list of convicted sex offenders in the local area. "Offender Locator gives everyone the ability to find out if registered sex offenders live in their area," says the application developer, ThinAir Wireless, on its iTunes page. "Knowledge equals safety. They know where you and your family are...now it's time to turn the tables so that you know where they live and can make better decisions about where to allow your kids to play." Offender Locator uses the iPhone's built-in GPS to pinpoint the user's location, and then provide a map listing sex offenders in the local area. Tapping on one of the 'pins' dropped on to the map brings up a photograph of the offender, as well as their address, date of birth and list of convictions."

Submission + - McAfee emails 1400 customer details on bulk list (itnews.com.au) 1

Submitted by

Robbie Burbanks

on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @02:49AM

Robbie Burbanks writes: "Security vendor McAfee has mistakenly sent out a bulk email blast attached with a document that lists the contact details and company demographics of some 1400 security experts that attended its recent Strategic Security Summit in Sydney. McAfee claims that because it discovered its mistake halfway through the send, it cannot know how many people the bulk email was sent to. Check out the Flickr screen-grabs of the offending bulk email send and an interview with McAfee's Asia Pacific vice president for more."

Comment She should sue her doctors then! (Score 1) 582

by kyriacos on Friday June 12, 2009 @07:15AM (#28306115) Attached to: Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class

Maybe that will teach them to take their patients more seriously.

Comment Nice! (Score 1) 382

by kyriacos on Thursday June 04, 2009 @03:14AM (#28206371) Attached to: UK Police Want Plug-In Computer Crime Detectors

And after they are done collecting personal information from your laptop, they will forget the USB stick on a bus and, next thing you know, your identity will be sold on eBay.

Submission + - Bada Bing! Microsoft rolling out new search (pcworld.com) 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25, 2009 @11:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: PC World reports that Microsoft's new search engine, code-named Kumo, has tentatively been rebranded as "Bing" and will be rolled out shortly, backed by a US$80-$100 million ad campaign. The new engine will try to out-do Google with photos and links to related categories returned for popular searches. As the article suggests, perhaps Microsoft is hoping users will talk about "binging" this or that, instead of googling for everything.

Submission + - Using WiMAX to replace a phone? (lazyelegance.com)

Submitted by

vigmeister

on Monday May 25, 2009 @11:12PM

vigmeister writes: "I've decided to explore the possibility of using a netbook/MID as a phone while eschewing the services of a cellphone provider. Now that Atlanta (where I live) has WiMAX from Clear, I ought to be connected everywhere within the city to the internet (once I sign up). Theoretically, this should mean that I will be able to use my netbook as a cell phone. Of course, there are some very real issues to overcome and I am simply putting this experiment together to see if it is something that is realistically possible. This could possibly extend to uncapped 3G connections (if they exist anymore) as well. Are there any obvious problems you would foresee? Is there anything I have missed or any other questions I should attempt to answer in this 'experiment' of mine? A major issue is, of course, the fact that my pseudo-netbook has to be carried everywhere and left always on. I've asked slashdot for advice regarding the best OS for this machine. However, if the experment is somewhat succesful, it seems as if using your netbook/MID as a phone might require a relatively customized OS which could possibly be a 'remix' of a suitable Linux distro. Something like Maemo, but not as hardware specific. Thoughts, suggestions?"

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