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Submission + - HBGary Federal hacked and exposed by Anonymous (sophos.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 07, 2011 @03:22AM

An anonymous reader writes: As the coin was tossed to kick off Superbowl XLV, Anonymous unleashed their anger at a security firm who had been investigating their membership.

HBGary Federal had been working on unmasking their identities in cooperation with an FBI investigation into the attacks against companies who were cutting off WikiLeaks access and financing.

Unlike the DDoS attacks for which Anonymous has made headlines in recent months, this incident involved true hacking

Comment Must be from the anti-tuna fishing lobby. (Score 1) 554

by nickh01uk on Sunday November 22, 2009 @09:55PM (#30198384) Attached to: Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health?

Tune tastes nice and Escolar is served in fine french restaurants here.

iPhone Game Piracy "the Rule Rather Than the Exception" 268

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 20, 2009 @08:52PM from the hey-some-people-can't-afford-that-99-cents dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Many game developers don't think of the iPhone as being a system which has extensive game piracy. But recent comments by developers and analysts have shown otherwise, and Gamasutra speaks to multiple parties to evaluate the size of the problem and whether there's anything that can be done about it. Quoting: 'Greg Yardley confirms that getting ripped off by pirates is the rule rather than the exception. Yardley is co-founder and CEO of Manhattan-based Pinch Media, a company that provides analytic software for iPhone games. ... "What we've determined is that over 60% of iPhone applications have definitively been pirated based on our checks," he reveals, "and the number is probably higher than that." While it's impossible to estimate how much money developers are losing, it involves more than the price of the game, he says. "What developers lose is not necessarily the sale," he explains, "because I don't believe pirates would have bought the game if they hadn't stolen it. But when there is a back-end infrastructure associated with a game, that is an ongoing incremental cost that becomes a straight loss for the developer."'"

Comment Security 101 for Mobile Operators! (Score 1) 495

by nickh01uk on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @01:47PM (#28869859) Attached to: Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers

Theres a nice little article over at the 360 blog here listing exactly what mobile operators frequently get wrong with their security architecture and execution. Once wonders if they understand the basics!

Comment There can be huge differences in performance (Score 1) 361

by nickh01uk on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @03:21AM (#28178619) Attached to: When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails

Theres a nice little article here (basic reg. required) contrasting VMware and Citrix XenServer, where the end user was forced to abandon VMware (their default choice) after suffering performance problems and after 6 months of back and forth with tech support and engineering at the vendor. In the end XenServer delivered 2x the real world performance on identical hardware with a default install. Not all workloads are equally well virtualized! N.

Comment Re:I'm guessing VMWare isn't that worried (Score 1) 259

by nickh01uk on Monday February 23, 2009 @06:09PM (#26962637) Attached to: Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free

Re: unsupported trials.

If you'd dropped my company a line we'd have offered a supported trial with an allocated engineer (okay, time spent would depend partly on potential size of a deployment...) but you'd certainly have spent nothing finding out what the product could and could not do in a supported way. We'd probably both have learnt something, I love real-life tests :-) Sometimes there are benefits in NOT buying direct off the vendor's web store :-) End of outrageous plug! Oh, we also do VMware, I guess what Im saying is that deployment is about more than just the upfront sticker price of the product.
PK

Comment Has to be good news for the customer because.... (Score 1) 259

by nickh01uk on Monday February 23, 2009 @05:48PM (#26962373) Attached to: Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free

it will provide free access to competitive technology, keep the established vendor(s) straight, and (eventually) will give rise to cross-platform management tools and frameworks.

At last it looks like there will be a free, supported, commercial-grade virtualization solution for those of us who dont have the budget for VMware and have been disappointed with Hyper-V and its predecessors.

I can only imagine this is unhappy news for VMware who surely must now take a reality check on their pricing. I sincerely hope they do not go the same way as Netscape, having 3 strong vendors in the market stops a lot of the kind of bad behavior you see from ERP, CRM, and BI vendors (you know who you are guys!). There was a balanced 2 minute comparison of Hyper-v, XenServer, and VMware over at the 360 blog here.

For the VMware, Xen, and Hyper-V fanboys (are there any Hyper-V fanboys yet?), calm down and take a tip from that blog:

"Providers of the core hypervisor technology will continue to play a game of technical leapfrog with one another for at least a couple of years, while those with a management, enterprise framework, or suite will claim more strategic long-term positions around "liquid infrastructure" or something else suitably bendy. What is most important right now is that you have the right information processing architecture, not any one particular product within it."

Comment Re:Shouldn't it have been this way from the start? (Score 1) 316

by nickh01uk on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @04:37AM (#20664985) Attached to: Internet Security Moving Toward 'White List'

Theres a nice little article here that talks about this subject in a vendor-neutral way.

AG

Nmap From an Ethical Hacker's Point of View 115

Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 02, 2007 @04:13PM from the think-like-the-bad-guys-do dept.

ddonzal notes a new tutorial that introduces Nmap from the viewpoint of an ethical hacker. (Part 1 of 2 parts is up now.) The author is Kirby Tucker, who writes: "After completing this 2 Part Series and having practiced the techniques described, one should not only be able to sit at a 'roundtable' with advanced security professionals and 'hold their own' in a discussion concerning Nmap, but also utilize this great tool in protecting their own network."

Submission + - Nmap from an Ethical Hacker's View Part 1 (ethicalhacker.net) 1

Submitted by

ddonzal

on Sunday September 02, 2007 @12:50PM

ddonzal writes: "What, another Nmap tutorial? Yes that's true, but I am hoping to approach it a little differently than what I have seen available. I want to describe Nmap from the viewpoint of an ethical hacker and at the same time give a clear, step-by-step method of attaining a good level of proficiency. After completing this 2 Part Series and having practiced the techniques described, one should not only be able to sit at a "roundtable" with advanced security professionals and "hold their own" in a discussion concerning Nmap, but also utilize this great tool in protecting their own network. http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/155/1/"

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