Morning all! It has been some crazy days for me recently! I walked at graduation even though being out of school since December, my family threw me a party this weekend, and yesterday was my birthday. Putting together the news for you all has been the first few moments I had to catch up on the computer and my RSS feed since last week! Enough about me, thanks for reading!! ...
Morning everybody! I don't know about you but it is a supremely busy week for me. Exciting but busy and I'm looking forward to Memorial Day weekend because I'm a huge advocate for beer and bbq's. I don't know about all of you but I'll be grilling enough red meat to feed a small country. Thanks for reading! Signed, Matt Click here to subscribe to Liquidmatrix Security Digest!. And now, ...
Gooooooood Morning! Thank you all for bearing with me as I am a news newbie her on LiquidMatrix. Hope you enjoy! Time to finish the week strong! Thanks for reading! Signed, Matt Click here to subscribe to Liquidmatrix Security Digest!. And now, the news... 5 Great Web Security Blogs You Haven't Heard Of - Jeremiah Grossman SQL Injection with SQLmap - Pauldotcom Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real time ...
Morning all! Matt here. Hope the week isn't weighing you down too much at this point! I've had a few particularly productive days so far and looking to keep it up. Join me in some productivity will you? Signed, Matt Click here to subscribe to Liquidmatrix Security Digest!. And now, the news... Pirate Bay Founder Crafts Distributed Denial of Dollars Attack - Blog Pirate Cadets Trade the Trenches for Firewalls ...
Ran across a new breach story this weekend that almost slipped under my radar from the San Francisco Chronicle. Reportedly some "overseas" hackers broke into UC Berkeley computer systems and accessed a proverbial "shit ton" of confidential information. The databases contained 97,000 Social Security numbers, health insurance information and nontreatment medical information, such as immunization records, names of doctors whom people may have seen and dates of medical visits, said Shelton ...
Just really couldn't avoid doing a write-up on this story for LSD. This one goes out to anybody who got one of our glorious shwag pieces illustrating our favorite word here at the digest, CYBERDOUCHERY. I know what the reaction from my fellow liquidmatrix folk will be on this but I hope the rest of you can at least keeps your heads from exploding. The all powerful and knowing Wall ...
It seems that Amazon has had some interesting goings on recently, and by interesting I of course mean interesting. I started to write this article last night but the Easter dinner/dessert food coma won the battle and I'm glad it did. As it turns out what was going to be an article solely about censorship in a major online community as transformed into a perfect security article overnight :). I ...
I was pretty much forced to write about this article after I read it. In an utter disregard for buzzwords, CNN Homeland Security Correspondent Jeanne Meserve has drunk heavily from the fountain of cyberdouchery. The article entitled "Smart Grid May Be Vulnerable to Hackers" briefly discusses the United States and its respective power companies anxiously deploying a high-tech power grid while simultaneously abusing the words "cyber" and "smart". Power companies ...
Earlier this week it was reported that a list of Comcast customers' usernames and passwords, 8,000 entries long, was exposed on a public website for at least two months. A man by the name of Kevin Andreyo who works as a professor at Wilkes University came across the list while performing a search for his own personal e-mail address. The search dug up a website called Scribd which is a document ...
Tuesday March 10th and it's once again Patch Tuesday for all you Microsoft users. Yesterday's release was a very straightforward and light load of fixes but spanned all supported versions of Windows. Some specific updates pushed out are MS09-006, MS09-007, and MS09-008. MS09-006 is a update for the Windows kernel vulnerability that is labeled critical for Windows 2000 SP4 all the way up to Vista SP1. The ...