The BBC website reports that following an investigation by the Washington Post , Internet service providers Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric have disconnected the US firm McColo. The firm is believed to be responsible for hosting groups that have been sending spam via botnets.
Ironport, the email security firm now owned by Cisco, claims that as a result spam has dropped by 70% - for now. As soon as the groups re-establish their Internet presence, the level of spam is likely to return.
It was only a matter of time time, but now the WPA wireless encryption standard has been cracked allowing access to the TKIP key, access to the data hasn’t yet been achieved. The attack relies on the use of WPA+TKIP, so switching to WPA2 or WPA+AES will mitigate the attack if the wireless hardware supports them. Check out the whitepaper provided at the AirCrack-NG site, and the SANS ISC site for more details.
The Register reports that Swiss Researchers from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne have demonstrated eavesdropping keyboard strokes from a distance of 20m. The video below demonstrates a proof of concept of receiving and decoding the electronic emissions from different types of keyboards, PS2, USB and Laptops, and displaying what’s typed on a system located in a different room.
Check out the video for a demonstration.
I stumbled across the 43 Folders blog of Merlin Mann, a speaker on personal productivity. In his Inbox Zero series he gives useful tips on how to survive the flood of email in the modern age and the best use the technology. The video below shows a talk he gave on his email tips to Google as part of their Tech Talk series. The tips are useful, and the Google Q&A session gives an interesting glimpse into the workings of Google and the flood of information that their employees seems to be drowning under. It seems strange that a company that started out trying to improve the management of information is now drowning in it.
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