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MasterCard hack spawns phishing attack | The Register: “”
(Via The Reg.)
The recent compromise in Mastercard’s network resulted in possibly 40M credit card holders personal details being stolen.
If that wasn’t bad enough, the compromise has now spawned a phishing atempt.
The text of the phishing e-mail is:
From: Master Bank [master@masterbank.com] To: Subject: **Your Mastercard online Confirmation**
Dear User, […]

Schneier on Security: Dell Keyboard Loggers: “”
(Via Bruce’s blog.)
Bruce Schneier doubts the truth of the Dell keyboard logger “story” commenting that its an urban legend. I have to admit, I agree with him, and also one commenter. (PS: this guy get the prize for the techy comment of the post):

Its an obvious hoax to the […]

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Originally uploaded by Arnd Jan.

I think that picture says perfection. Today, we got our new coffee machine, a Gaggia TS, semi-industrial machine. It took me a little while, but I got it.
Thats the most important thing. Now we don’t have to drink horrible coffee. Makes […]

Poor old TV3.ie’s website is still off the air after some random cracker threw an IIS 4 script at it this morning.
The site was cracker by “NOBODYCODER (UnKnoWn_3Rr0R)” in what looked like a random crack. They probably got scanned for vulns. and where cracked without the cracker knowing and (certainly) without TV3 webadmins knowing.
The Irish […]

Hmm, this should work!

TV3, Ireland’s independent third television station has been cracked by a cracker named “NOBODYCODER (UnKnoWn_3Rr0R)”.
Firstly I would have checked for some new unknown exploit for the webserver application in question, but after checking for the webserver platform in Netcraft, I got these results:
IP Address OS Webserver Last changed
193.120.123.19 NT4/Windows 98 IIS 4.0 28-July-2004
Who in their right minds would be running IIS4 […]

The Economist are running an article (unfortunately prime content, so you need a subscription) about this years 10th birthday of ebay.
They give some valuable lessons to be learnt from ebays success in weathering the DotCom disaster.
With respect to Irish DotComs, some that are coming to the 10 year old stage, what can be said about […]

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Originally uploaded by munkei.

I’m another fan of flashy lights and cables in photos.
Every time I go to our hosting facility, my eyes get bigger looking at the nice flashy green LEDs.