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The New York Times is reporting that the United States nearly chose to use “cyber weaponry” in the lead-up to the attacks on Libya earlier this year. Apparently the US military considered hacking into the Libyan government’s air defense control systems. It is an interesting development that US officials are considering their offensive cyber capabilities […]

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I had the good fortune to recently attend GrrCON (pronounced “Grrrr Con”), one of the larger Midwestern United States information security and hacking conferences. Moxie Marlinspike kicked off the event with his keynote presentation titled “SSL And The Future Of Authenticity.” He gave the same presentation at DEFCON, which my colleague Chester Wisniewski detailed in […]

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Apparently committing crimes for the “lulz” is still entertaining for the group known as LulzSec. They announced their latest conquests around 12:30pm PDT today, senate.gov and Bethesda Softworks. Nothing terribly secret was lost in the breach of the US Senate’s web server. LulzSec posted some basic information on the filesystems, user logins and the Apache […]

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