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De Beers tries to force spoof news Web site offline over fake ad

2008-12-04 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The diamond conglomerate De Beers is demanding that domain name registrar Joker.com disable a spoof of The New York Times Web site that includes a fake De Beers ad
 
Tags: beers, spoof, registrar joker, fake, domain, includes, diamond, disable
 
 
 
 
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...spoof the MAC address of an allowed supplicant -- simply sniff the traffic, look at the MAC addresses, and use the neat little SMAC utility to change your MAC to one that's permitted Nonbroadcasting networks are not secure networks . The right way to secure a wireless network is to use protocols that are designed specifically to address...
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks
 
 
 
 
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Playing around with my blog

2007-09-26 18:40:21 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...spoof the Homeland Security national threat level, which as we all know doesn't provide anything actionable for ordinary citizens. This website has some good commentary that'll make your blood boil Technorati stuff--authority display (which isn't working, maybe it takes a while?), reaction counts and link, and a button for you to add me to...
 
Tags: blog, time, blog software, technorati favorites, days ago, ordinary citizens, technorati stuff, right-hand column, blood boil
 
 
 
 
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The Funniest Windows Firewall Spoof Image

2008-02-11 18:20:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
This is the truth. Microsoft's firewall guards the front door while everyone and everything get in from every other direction
 
Tags: firewall guards, front door, direction, microsoft, truth
 
 
 
 
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Data & Application Security demand continues to rise

2007-12-11 12:38:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...spoof video on public sensitive data breaches called Data Breach Wars It's extremely entertaining for the first 60 seconds!!! Then unfortunately it starts to drag on a little (sorry Rich, maybe if the scrolling went faster). It does drive home a key point. Data Breaches are not slowing down but increasing exponentially and will continue to...
 
Tags: security, data, application security, security business growth, data breach wars, data breaches, ponder rich mogull, rich, data security
 
 
 
 
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Laptop bought on eBay contained "highly confidential" Home Office disk

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2008-02-28 16:10:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...spoof at first - I just figured someone was having a joke Mr Bevan put the disk into the drive to check it and found it was encrypted Evan] I understand how curiosity can drive someone to put the disk in the drive to find out what is/was on it, but I wouldn't suggest doing this if it's marked "Home Office - highly confidential". Thankfully...
 
Tags: home office, disk, laptop, source home office, home office spokesman, director lee bevan, lee bevan, highly confidential, leapfrog computers
 
 
 
 
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Air Defense is hijacking WAPs at Infosec World

2008-03-11 11:45:53 by HASH0x8ae98e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...spoof the SSID of the preferred network. Then you get connected to the Air Defense WAP and you are redirected to their advertising site I have nothing against marketing but think that is pretty sleazy. If they have their WAP SSID labeled correctly and you want to connect to it fine. But hijacking other SSIDs is wrong. Shame on Air Defense
 
Tags: air defense, connections air defense, air defense wap, wap ssid, ssid, waps spoof, pretty sleazy, correctly, laptop
 
 
 
 
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Securing Network Location Awareness with Authenticated DHCP

2008-03-19 12:47:02 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...spoof this information. Our solution was to extend DHCP to include an network location identifier, authenticated by a public-key signature. I built a proof-of-concept implementation for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 DHCP server, and the Vista DHCP client A scheme like this should ideally work on both small PKI-less home LANs and still...
 
Tags: network location, location, network location awareness, network, office location, dhcp, network location identifier, logical network, vista dhcp client
 
 
 
 
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Google adwords fuel new URL attack

2008-05-02 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473790 in Network World on Security
 
Google adwords account holders are being targeted by criminals out to trick them into handing over credit card information using a clever URL spoof that has gained popularity in recent weeks
 
Tags: credit card information, clever url spoof, recent weeks, popularity, criminals, trick
 
 
 
 
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Now, Somebody Please Tell Me This is A Spoof ...