Unconventional World Records

Boarding passes can give way too much info about yourself, and allows other people (or worse, terrorists) to pose as yourself and get on a plane to do bad things.  (more…)

According to Internet security specialist Symantec Corp, Cyberattacks are becoming even more focused on making money than making headlines.
It said this in its latest biannual Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) covering the six-month period from July 1 to Dec 31 2005. (more…)

BlueSecurity is maker of BlueFrog, the vigilante-style antispam product that’s gaining a huge following, working on the premise that the more users join in, the more pressure it will have on spammers to beat it.

As of right now, some say yes, some say no.

Just like the other American Idol, students at the Georgia Institute of Technology try their best to impress in front of a panel of critics who decides their fates.

The difference is, they don’t sing to impress. (more…)

I got an email forward that warns that answering a cell phone while it is being charged can electrocute the user.

As clarified by urbanlegends and hoax-slayer.com: (more…)

Try breaking AES 256 key length then.

Therefore, Phil Zimmerman’s zfone should appeal to criminals and terrorists alike, rather than Skype, enabling you to make secure internet phonecalls:

…to eavesdroppers, Zfone is anything but routine. The protocol is based on SRTP, a system that uses the 256-bit AES cipher and adds to that a 3,000-bit key exchange that produces the codes callers can read off to one another. It has been submitted to IETF for approval as an internet standard, and by most accounts is strong enough to defy even the most sophisticated code-breaking technologies, from a hacker’s packet sniffer to the acres of computers beneath Ft. Meade.

via /. and the washington post
irhabi = terrorist

real name: Younis Tsouli

occupation: Al-Qaeda’s top hacker

age: 22

base: West London

skills: web defacement, web cracking, anonymous browsing, hacking, programming, executing online attacks, mastering digital and media design, stealing creditcard info etc (more…)

On 15th March, The Washington Post reported that for the 3rd consecutive year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gets another F in computer security.

Why is this so special? The DHS is “charged with charting the federal government’s cyber security agenda .” (more…)

According to a report by the Chicago Tribune (free registration required to read article), it’s easy to track America’s covert operatives - all you need to know is how to navigate the Internet. Or rather, in this case, an unnamed commercial online data service.

Apparently, the Tribune found the identities of over 2600 CIA employees (including an undisclosed number of covert operatives) as well as locations of more than 20 CIA facilities across the U.S., internal phone numbers and info on 17 aircraft. (more…)