Mon, 28 March 2011
In this episode, we discuss a wide range of topics, including: - The Jesters denial of service attack on the Westboro Baptist Church website. - How one might prevent such attacks - The seizure of domain names by the Department of Homeland Security - The treatment of Bradley Manning - Google and bugs in Flash - A 16-year old girl that may have hacked HBGary - Skype and encryption data leaks and, finally - How the events in Japan may effect iPad2 availability. Layer 7 Denial of Service attacks: th3j35t3r's assault on Westboro Baptist Church Website Continues Live Performance Report for Westboro Church Website: four sites held down 24 days from a single 3G cellphone: http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?site=www.godhatesfags.com Defense techniques: Protecting a Web server with a Load-Balancer http://samsclass.info/124/proj11/proj15-haproxy.html Protecting a Web server with mod_security (a Web Application Firewall) http://samsclass.info/124/proj11/p16-mod-security.html Protecting a Web server with iptables (a firewall) http://samsclass.info/124/proj11/p5x-iptables-layer7.html Westboro Spoof for a Good Purpose -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DHS siezure of domain names: Web seizures trample due process http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/ars-interviews-rep-zoe-lofgren.ars -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bradey Manning's Continuing Abuse in Captivity Ellsberg on Obama’s View that Manning’s Treatment is “Appropriate” http://www.ellsberg.net/archive/ellsberg-obama-manning WH forces P.J. Crowley to resign for condemning abuse of Manning http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/13/crowley -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Google and Flash Bugs Google first to patch Flash bug with Chrome update http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214689/Google_first_to_patch_Flash_bug_with_Chrome_update -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Anonymous" Hacker Speaks Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary? 16 years old, and in hiding for a felony http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/03/16/is-this-the-girl-that-hacked-hbgary/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skype Encryption Leaks Data Uncovering spoken phrases in encrypted VoIP conversations http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/oakland08.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shortages of Apple's iPad and iPhone to bleed into June quarter -- caused by Japan's disasters |
Sat, 5 March 2011
In December at the Convergence Technology Center's Winter Retreat at Collin College in Frisco Texas, John had the chance to shoot an IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) workshop given by Sam Bowne, from City College of San Francisco. Here's the 35 minute and 47 second Part 1 of the 4 part series.
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