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Comment And then they went after the researcher's accounts (Score 2) 54

Victor posted on his Twitter feed that a bunch of his accounts were compromised and they tried to blackmail him or they would release all the data they found. I wonder who would want to do that? I wonder... https://twitter.com/0xDUDE/sta...

Comment Re:Innocent until blogged about (Score 1) 666

by fineous fingers (#44080087) Attached to: Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference
She didn't link to it because initially she didn't want to name him. Enough visitors on her blog demanded his name so eventually she did. I'm not sure if she had seen Gont's picture on the Confidence web site. I didn't want to bring it to her attention since I thought it might upset her even more. If you want to see the picture again on their site its number 215 out of 277 here: http://2013.confidence.org.pl/pictures Fingers

Comment Re:Innocent until blogged about (Score 5, Informative) 666

by fineous fingers (#44079847) Attached to: Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference

He denies it. She presented no evidence. He presented none either, even though he is under no obligation to. No charges files. Her word against his.

Of course he denies it what is he going to say? "Yes I am a sexual predator"? There was plenty of evidence that something went down. There were bruises on both of their faces. Many of her items (that Gont took) were found in his room even after he denied having them. Polish Law Enforcement WAS contacted but decided not to take any action.

Submission + - American security researcher attacked while at conference in Krakow, Poland. (georgiaweidman.com)

Submitted by fineous fingers
fineous fingers writes: US computer security researcher Georgia Weidman has revealed on her blog that a fellow speaker at the Confidence security conference in Krakow, Poland attempted to rape her. The attack occurred in her hotel room in the early morning hours of 28 May. Luckily, Georgia was able to fend her attacker off by clocking him in the head with a coffee mug. You can see her fancy mug work here in an official conference photo:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Vgd8jBxq8oo/Ua9HT0nPpuI/AAAAAAAAQ1k/oc6uKE5J9Bs/s800/_0272_confidence__M.jpg

I was personally at this conference but was staying at a different hotel and found out about it after the fact. It was Georgia herself that told me after she gave her fantastic talk on Leveraging Smartphones during Pentests. That fact that she was able to give a flawless presentation later that day and had the courage to talk about it on her blog shows how awesome she really is. (Not to mention the +5 Coffee Mug of Rapist Bashing she wields.)
Classic Games (Games)

Lost Online Games From the Pre-Web Era 186

Posted by Soulskill from the you-are-no-match-for-my-imperial-starship dept.
harrymcc writes "Long before the Web came along, people were playing online games — on BBSes, on services such as Prodigy and CompuServe, and elsewhere. Gaming historian Benj Edwards has rounded up a dozen RPGs, MUDs, and other fascinating curiosities from the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s — and the cool part is: they're all playable on the Web today." What old games were good enough for you to watch them scroll by on your 300 baud modem?
First Person Shooters (Games)

Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany 193

Posted by Soulskill from the sweet-zombie-reagan dept.
gzipped_tar writes "According to Spiegel Online, 'A new computer game where players assume the roles of border guards and shoot people trying to escape from communist East Germany has unleashed a storm of controversy in Germany. The game's creator says he wanted to teach young people about history, but he has been accused of glorifying violence. ... The name of the multi-player FPS game, 1,378 (kilometers), was inspired by the length of the border between East and West Germany. ... [Players] choose between the roles of the border guards or would-be escapees: the escapee only has one goal — to get over the wall, but the border guard has more options, and can shoot or capture the escapee. He can also swap sides and try to clamber over the border defenses himself.' By choosing to play the border guard and kill the escapee, the player would win an in-game medal from the government of East Germany. But then the guard would time-travel forward to the year 2000, where he would have to stand trial. Jens Stober, 23, designed the game as a media art student at the University of Design, Media and Arts in Karlsruhe. He said that his intention was to teach young people about German history."
Security

Stand-Alone Antivirus Software? 159

Posted by timothy from the lonely-job dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that repairs specialty devices that have an embedded Mini-ATX motherboard without a CD-ROM drive and run Windows XP Home. And while the USB flash drives we insert into them have a physical write-protect tab, we still encounter a (rather annoying) display dialog from malware/viruses to remove the write-protect so the malware can infect the flash drive. We don't remove the write-protect, obviously, but would like to offer our customers the option of removing the malware/virus without having to install any software. We would rather not install/uninstall antivirus software even for one-time use, due to various licensing issues, nor do we want to connect to the Internet to use web-based online scanners. Is there any stand-alone anti-virus/anti-malware software for Windows that can be run directly from the write-protected flash drive itself?"

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