Hacking into the computer files of a company or government agency often is not a very lucrative occupation, unless the hacker has some way to…
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OPLIN 4cast #436: IoT security
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As more and more specialized electronic devices automatically connect to Wi-Fi wherever they can find a node, comprising the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), the…
OPLIN 4cast #424: Trashing Flash
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Once upon a time, Adobe Flash was a feature of many websites and Internet ads that used animated graphics to catch the attention of site…
OPLIN 4cast #421: Inside the Dark Side
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Three months ago we posted a 4cast about the availability of cheap Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the Internet, mentioning as well that…
OPLIN 4cast #415: Encryption by default
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It seems like every day brings news of another major Internet hack, some so huge and cunning that they are blamed on government-sponsored “armies” of…
OPLIN 4cast #408: Cheap attacks
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At its latest meeting, the OPLIN Board discussed making a substantial financial commitment to protecting OPLIN participants from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS…
OPLIN 4cast #407: Jamming hotspots
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A couple of weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission fined the Marriott hotel chain $600,000, charging that they “…intentionally interfered with and disabled Wi-Fi networks…
OPLIN 4cast #385: More than antivirus
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Symantec, the company that launched the popular Norton Antivirus product in 1991, grabbed IT headlines last week when several company officials declared that antivirus is…
Over the past couple of months, Dan Goodin wrote two articles in Ars Technica about password and passphrase protection that have been widely quoted in…
OPLIN 4cast #344: Basic protection
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There was an interesting posting on the codeinsecurity blog a little over a month ago, which we didn’t see until recently, called “The anti-virus age…