Archive for ‘August 8th, 2006’

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Aug08

On Alan Shimel’s podcast tonight…

by Michael Farnum on August 8th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Posted In: Blogging, podcasting, Security

Alan Shimel from StillSecure was kind enough to have me as his featured guest on his podcast tonight.  Alan is a great guy and a great blogger, and I am proud to call him one of my blogging buddies. We were joined by Mitchell Ashley (a.k.a. Ed McMahon), the CTO of StillSecure, who seems like a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug08

Senator Lieberman’s campaign website DDos’ed

by Michael Farnum on August 8th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Posted In: DDos, Security, Sheesh, web hacking

Politics can be fun, and it can be real ugly, and often both at the same time.  And in this digital age, everyone has a chance to get involved, including script kiddies that have a political axe to grind.  Go read the story here.  But what got me about this whole deal was this quote […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug08

I usually don’t post about stolen laptops and desktops…

by Michael Farnum on August 8th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Posted In: Crime, Due Diligence, Security, Stolen computer

…because you can read about it in the news, because it generally happens for the same reason (stupidity, mainly), and I get tired or writing about it.  And the same would be the case on this new VA stolen desktop (also read here), except that this is twice for the VA, and I think this one […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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