Grumpy Security Guy

I love Dr. Pepper. So when then announced they where giving it away for free I was all over it.
Sadly though the site was not up to the task and was continually failing in new and wonderful ways. Everything from Service Unavailable to this piece of code poo:
Start ‘, gmdate(”F j, Y, g:i:s a T”, [...]

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When the clueless are on the intarwebs this is what happens:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/So-You-Hacked-Our-Site!.aspx
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I thought this was a pretty funny quote from this article.
Nine out of the world’s top 11 security hackers came to HP through the SPI Dynamics acquisition, he boasts, although it’s not immediately clear who ranked those top 11.
The “he” is Mark Potts CTO of Software, Hewlett-Packard. When I read that the first thing that [...]

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Some kids at Santa Clara high students hacked into school’s computers. The kicker, they where found because they wrote down the passwords and left them in the library,  pretty much just like in WarGames. They then used there access to look at test questions and their fellow students homework.
WarGames was a seminal moment in [...]

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It looks like Alicia Key’s MySpace profile was phished then used to host malware. Alicia, I can help you in these troubled times. We probably need to jet off to a secluded hideway somewhere to begin therapy.
If MySpace is to be believed this is actually a pretty interesting tactic. Apparently someone sent out phishing [...]

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I got this email today:
We’d like to inform you that your Online Banking is about to expire due to inactivity. If you want to continue using our services, please login to your Wells Fargo account now by clicking here:
http://www.miamiexpress.info/documentacion/.cgi-bin/wells/wellsfargo-us.com/wf/
Please note: Your online services will be limited and eventually deleted if you do not login within [...]

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This is awesome! Browsing networks with Windows machines on them show the Windows boxes as old CRT monitors that are all blue screened. Hilarious!

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Holly crap!! This is something straight out of a William S. Burroughs book.

the worst part is that it appears to be real!
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Vonage has been pushing it’s Visual Voicemail pretty hard lately. It works fairly well most of the time but I got a real winner in my email today.

“I. Thought it was nice 1 with some kind of stuff on it so we did your mom. several years back. I was just looking at the parameters [...]

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The Den Mother is an interesting creature, she lacks the cutting edge of an empire builder (who wants to rule the world) but still has a nasty bite if threatened. The Den Mothers #1 job is to protect her cubs from all threats. She will fight in the bloody budget trenches, fend off attacking mongrel [...]

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