Xato : Hacking

Pakistan Wants to Learn How to Hack?

MB's Windows Security — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:26:36 GMT

I was playing around with Google Trends today which is always interesting trying to find a correlation between search volume of various terms (do more people hack when it snows?) I use Google’s keyword tool, to find out the most popular search phrases...(read more)

China caught hacking, good thing our government does not do that

MB's Windows Security — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:50:18 GMT

China denies that it’s military hacked into British government networks. They also deny hacking into the Pentagon. The funny thing is that they probably did both and everyone knows it. Think about it. Considering that many people now consider a...(read more)

Multi-Factor Authentication vs Multi-Single Factor Authentication

MB's Windows Security — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:35:43 GMT

Sprites mods has an interesting article about hacking the protection of a hardware authentication device: http://www.spritesmods.com/?art=secustick What’s interesting about this is that it shows how easy it is to feel like a hardware device is providing...(read more)

So Kevin Appeared in Playboy…

MB's Windows Security — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:52:35 GMT

I got a chance to review a [uh, text only] copy of the Playboy article about Kevin Mitnick and was quite surprised with how captivated I was reading it. The author makes an excellent point in the article—not through what he says but how he makes you feel...(read more)

Playboy Tells Kevin Mitnick’s Story

MB's Windows Security — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:28:23 GMT

Coming next month in Playboy Magazine: Chasing Mitnick. According to the magazine, “For two years hacker par excellence Kevin Mitnick eluded the FBI. Now that he has served his sentence, Playboy lands the exclusive story of the man The New York...(read more)