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Posted in DDOS, International, Phishing on May 28th, 2008
Col. Charles W. Williamson III in his post “Carpet bombing in cyberspace: Why America needs a military botnet” ran into trouble with the security community when he stated, “America needs a network that can project power by building an af.mil robot network (botnet) that can direct such massive amounts of traffic to target computers that [...]
Posted in Censorship, China, DDOS, Estonia, International, Myanmar, OpenNet, Opinion, Pakistan, Russia on May 23rd, 2008
April 26 was the 22nd anniversary of the meltdown at the Russian Chornobyl reactor. On this day, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) began its live Web report covering a rally of thousands of people, organized by the Belarusian opposition. The demonstration was to protest the government’s decision to build a new [...]
Posted in Debian, OpenSSL, Python, Vulnerability on May 22nd, 2008
By now, you likely have heard about the Debian OpenSSL Vulnerability, found by Luciano Bello. It was originally announced on May 13th. What occurred is that code was removed because it caused the Valgrind and Purify tools to produce warnings about the use of uninitialized data in code that was linked to OpenSSL. [...]
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