SecuraBit before it Bytes

This week Anthony Gartner & Rob Fuller discuss the latest computer security news.  Special guests are Vyrus and CP from the dc949.org group.

Episode 11

Discussions covered the following topics:

Skynet, Advanced Dork, Google Site Indexer, These tools work worked on by CP and Vyrus and the dc949 group and are written as open source.

Rob brought up a Firefox add on called Barrier

Spoke of how we can use google alerts to help us in our daily tasks to track where our information is being sent out to.

Discussion ensued about Scroogle.org not to be confused with scoogle.com and how you can do secure searching though the site and that the site purges logs with in 48 hours.

A mention of Cisco was brought up and we also spoke of a visualized version for the Cisco Mips processors and the specific virtualized version of the Cisco 7200 Routers.

BlackBerry Encryption keys may be in the hands of the Indian Government as part of the deal with Rim.

 

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Numerous reports have been flying around the intertubes that Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo email was hacked and items from her mailbox were posted on the internet.  Wikileaks states that the email was hacked around midnight Tuesday Sept. 16th by persons affiliated with the group ‘anonymous‘.  Numerous screenshots, contacts, and family photos have been posted on the Wikileaks website.  It is interesting that she was just asked a few days earlier to release over 1000 emails from the same private account she has been apparently using conduct government business.  

Chris Eng (guest on Securabit Episode 7) has posted some commentary on what he thinks might have happened to the account.  What are your thoughts on this matter?  Is this all fair game and the whole mailbox should be released or just despicable?

UPDATE: Apparently ‘Anonymous’ might not be too anonymous for long.  The screenshot posted listed almost the whole proxy address, which will make it much easier to find in a log.  Unless they used their neighbors wi-fi.

Interesting security news for 08/29/08:

White House Imposes New Security Mandate for Federal Agencies (Washington Post) - All government agencies will be required to implement DNSSEC by January 2009.

Apple to fix hole in password-protected iPhones (Cnet) - Apple announces that it will release an update in September to fix a hole that allows users to bypass the unlock screen.

Dan Kaminsky Soundboard (0×000000.com) - Can’t get enough Dan Kaminsky, now have him talk to you all the time, any time.

MIT working on network vulnerability analysis (Slashdot) - Researchers at MIT are working on detecting exploitable vulnerabilites by graphing attacks in near real time.