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Comment I think my site got hit by this and survived (Score 0) 259

by tsilb on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @12:30PM (#21955262) Attached to: Mass Hack Infects Tens of Thousands of Sites

I noticed some supicious form posts on my own site over the past several days, coming form Harvard.edu. I had dismissed it at the time as being some random student spammer, but it looks like I may have been on their attack list.

The event logs didn't show the entire string they attempted to post, so at the time I wasn't able to track it back to the source HTML and JS files used. From what I can tell now, they seem to be using a botnet. The above is a permalink to my blog post in response to the event. As a potential victim, I will be researching the event. As I learn more I will add an additional post with a permalink in that post's comments.

Submission + - Inside Comcast's Surveillance Policies (fas.org)

Submitted by

Monk

on Monday October 15, 2007 @05:57PM

Monk writes: "The Federation of American Scientists has obtained a recently disclosed Comcast Handbook for Law Enforcement which details its policies for divulging its customers personal information. All of Comcast's policies seem to [follow] the letter of the law, and seem to weigh customer privacy with Law Enforcement's requests. This is in apparent contrast to ATT and a number of other telecommunication companies which have been just too happy to give over subscriber records. According to the information, Comcast keeps logs for up to 180 days on IP address allocation, and they do not keep all of your e-mails forever (45 days at most). VoIP phone records are stored for 2 years, and cable records can only be retrieved upon a court order. The document even details how much it costs law enforcement to get access to personal data (data for child exploitation cases is free of charge):"

Saturn's Moons Harboring Water? 161

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 15, 2007 @10:13AM from the where-else-is-aquaman-hiding dept.

eldavojohn writes "New bizarre images of Saturn's moons are exciting scientists as there may be some indication of water, possibly at very low depths in the frigid environment they possess. From the article, 'Titan's north pole is currently gripped by winter. And quite a winter it is, with temperatures dropping to -180C and a rain of methane and ethane drizzling down, filling the moon's lakes and seas. These liquids also carve meandering rivers and channels on the moon's surface. Finally, last week NASA and Esa revealed images from Cassini which confirmed that jets of fine, icy particles are spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus and originate from a hot 'tiger stripe' fracture that straddles the moon's south polar region. The discovery raises the prospect of liquid water existing on Enceladus, and possibly life.' You can find the images here."

The Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain 212

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 15, 2007 @07:54AM from the heads-will-roll dept.

palpatin writes to let us know that The Pirate Bay has now taken up residence at IFPI.com, a domain once owned by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The Pirate Bay says the site will now promote the International Federation of Pirates Interests. IFPI can still be reached at ifpi.org. Torrentfreak has up a brief interview with Brokep, one of the administrators of The Pirate Bay, who says: "It's not a hack, someone just gave us the domain name. We have no idea how they got it, but it's ours and we're keeping it."

Bill Gates Denied Visa To Nigeria 405

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 14, 2007 @12:02AM from the let-the-419-jokes-begin dept.

Xight notes a Gizmodo story that is a few days old but hasn't gotten a lot of play. It seems that Nigeria recently denied Bill Gates a visa to travel there on his recent trip to Africa. The initial denial was "on the premise that they required proof he would not reside in Nigeria indefinitely, causing a strain on social services and a general nuisance for immigration." The comments to the post are worth reading too.

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