This short article in Wired recalls a story from 1983, when a Soviet military officer helped avert a war with the United Sates. He was monitoring the ICBM early warning satellite system, when it alerted him that the US had launched ballistic missiles at Moscow. Following his gut feeling, he nervously decided that it was [...]
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There is an insightful article in the Economist titled “Learning to live with Big Brother”. It makes some interesting points about the state of government (and commercial) surveillance as it stands today, and how it might evolve over the next several years. Here are some choice quotes that I liked:
Britain used to pride itself on [...]
These are some useful web service security tools that I’ve come across recently:
WSFuzzer
A Python based web services fuzzer.
WSBag
Another fuzzer, written in Python.
WSDigger
A testing framework from Foundstone.
LISA WS-Testing
Based on the iTKO testing framework. I haven’t tried this yet, so any comments from those who have would be helpful.
If anyone has some more good links to [...]
There are widely spreading rumors that Comcast is actively trying to degrade the performance of BitTorrent file transfers on its broadband cable modem network. Since BT uses a complex peer-to-peer architecture, stopping it is not as simple as just blocking a few port numbers. So, it looks like Comcast has resorted to sending spoofed TCP [...]
This is both scary and hilarious at the same time. I’m not a Skype user, so this hasn’t affected me at all. But apparently the huge number of Skype users rebooting last week, due to the patches released by Microsoft on Tuesday, set off a nasty chain of events. First of all, when all [...]
