[FairfieldLife] Hackers

2015-06-15 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
As soon as you access the internet data highway with your computer, security is 
out of the question. 
 

 The ideal and secure computer is a system without any contact to the outside 
world - no  disks, no flash drives, no CD-DVD drives, or cameras and no direct 
contact to other computers by modem or network card or cable. 
 

 Many people do not realize that a computer connected to the internet reveals 
details about their personal life: who they are, where they work, where they 
go, who they visit, and their surfing habits. It's all there - housed as 
digital information at a data center somewhere. 
 

 Most hacker exploits wouldn't be a problem if programmers were a bit more 
diligent in their coding. 
 

 strcpy () is your enemy, strncpy () is your friend. 
 



[FairfieldLife] Hackers

2015-06-13 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
We are in the best of hands.
 

 
 Officials: Second hack exposed military and intel data 
http://news.yahoo.com/union-says-federal-workers-fell-victim-hackers-071851098--politics.html
 
 
 
http://news.yahoo.com/union-says-federal-workers-fell-victim-hackers-071851098--politics.html
 
 
 Officials: Second hack exposed military and intel data 
http://news.yahoo.com/union-says-federal-workers-fell-victim-hackers-071851098--politics.html
 WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers linked to China have gained access to the sensitive 
background information submitted by intelligence and military personnel for ...
 
 
 
 View on news.yahoo.com 
http://news.yahoo.com/union-says-federal-workers-fell-victim-hackers-071851098--politics.html
 
 Preview by Yahoo 
 
 
 



[FairfieldLife] Hackers

2013-12-01 Thread Richard J. Williams
One of the favorite tactics of internet pranksters and hackers is to 
'raid' a forum or site, essentially overwhelm it with negative rantings 
in large numbers, just for kicks - lulz.

According to what I've read on 4chan /b/, the Anonymous Group will 
conduct a major DDoS, even bigger than the attack on the Church of 
Scientology, which was called Project Chanology. Thank God respondents 
are allowed unlimited posts per week on Yahoo! FFL, or else we'd be 
hacked and shut down by the pirates and the hackers - we've got to 
defend ourselves or it's chaos.

It seems to me that most of these hacker exploits wouldn't be a problem 
if moderators were a bit more diligent in their moderating and security: 
strcpy () is your enemy, strncpy () is your friend. Go figure.

This is another one of those books that needs to be on a mandatory 
reading list for all IT Security bachelors degrees. Yes, I've got the 
book and the degree, and that's probably the main reason I'm still alive 
and posting.

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. 
He accessed computers and networks at all the world's biggest companies 
- and no matter how fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, 
sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks.

As the FBI's net finally began to tighten, Mitnick went on the run, 
engaging in an increasingly  sophisticated game of hide and seek that 
escalated through false identities, a host of cities, and plenty of 
close shaves, to an ultimate showdown with the Feds, who would stop at 
nothing to bring him down.

Ghost in the Wires is a thrilling true story of intrigue, suspense, 
and unbelievable escapes - and a portrait of a visionary who forced the 
authorities to rethink the way they pursued him and forced companies to 
rethink the way they protect their their most sensitive information. 
With an introduction by Steve Wozniak.

'Ghost in the Wires'
by Kevin Mitnick
Back Bay Books, 2011


[FairfieldLife] Hackers, was You are bought and sold by your masters every day...

2013-06-30 Thread Richard J. Williams

emptybill:
 You are bought and sold by your masters every day...

You simple nerd - I already posted this information.
You're just taking up band-space now.

Why are you so paranoid - if you haven't done or said
anything illegal, what are you worried about? So, you
broke the internet netiquette on FF - so what, it's
not the end of the world. LoL!

You newbies need to get some smarts about the texting
on social networks ALWAYS boot up your laptop with a
command line Linux shell using a 32 gigabyte micro-SD
card.

Then, you need to get yourself a proxy server, or at
least set up a VPN to connect a small LAPTOP with your
home desk top computer running LINUX - never reveal
your IP address or Who-Is location. Always use a free
text editor like EditPad. Never install Apple, Microsoft,
Norton, Kaspersky, or McAfee programs!!!

Maintain a log of every post you make and copy all
your data to the SD card, ENCRYPT it, (never save your
data on your desktop hard drive). Hide the micro-card
inside a cracked and flashed, cheap flip phone - don't
tell ANYONE where the micro-card is, EVER. Conceal
the phone in your underpants.

When you log on to the internet to send your one-line
text messages, always use an anonymous login. NEVER
sign up to any site using your real name, reveal your
age or gender, or your past exploits.

Tips: 1. Don't sit at the same table in the same
coffee shop every day. 2. Drive a sleeper car, like a
white van and tinted windows, with a V-8 under the
hood. 3. Always pay your student loan to Sallie Mae
using a  money order and snail mail. 4. When you go
out in public always wear shades, a black T-shirt and
old blue jeans and running shoes. 5. Take a computer
course at a community college. 6. Avoid getting any
tattoos on your body or piercings that can identify
you.


Read more:

'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution'
  25th Anniversary Edition
by Steven Levy



Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers, was You are bought and sold by your masters every day...

2013-06-30 Thread Bhairitu
On 06/30/2013 07:30 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
 emptybill:
 You are bought and sold by your masters every day...

 You simple nerd - I already posted this information.
 You're just taking up band-space now.

 Why are you so paranoid - if you haven't done or said
 anything illegal, what are you worried about? So, you
 broke the internet netiquette on FF - so what, it's
 not the end of the world. LoL!

 You newbies need to get some smarts about the texting
 on social networks ALWAYS boot up your laptop with a
 command line Linux shell using a 32 gigabyte micro-SD
 card.

 Then, you need to get yourself a proxy server, or at
 least set up a VPN to connect a small LAPTOP with your
 home desk top computer running LINUX - never reveal
 your IP address or Who-Is location. Always use a free
 text editor like EditPad. Never install Apple, Microsoft,
 Norton, Kaspersky, or McAfee programs!!!

 Maintain a log of every post you make and copy all
 your data to the SD card, ENCRYPT it, (never save your
 data on your desktop hard drive). Hide the micro-card
 inside a cracked and flashed, cheap flip phone - don't
 tell ANYONE where the micro-card is, EVER. Conceal
 the phone in your underpants.

 When you log on to the internet to send your one-line
 text messages, always use an anonymous login. NEVER
 sign up to any site using your real name, reveal your
 age or gender, or your past exploits.

 Tips: 1. Don't sit at the same table in the same
 coffee shop every day. 2. Drive a sleeper car, like a
 white van and tinted windows, with a V-8 under the
 hood. 3. Always pay your student loan to Sallie Mae
 using a  money order and snail mail. 4. When you go
 out in public always wear shades, a black T-shirt and
 old blue jeans and running shoes. 5. Take a computer
 course at a community college. 6. Avoid getting any
 tattoos on your body or piercings that can identify
 you.


 Read more:

 'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution'
25th Anniversary Edition
 by Steven Levy



Here's one of your neighbor's video that's pretty funny about Laws You 
Didn't Know Existed.  Of course paranoid FFLers will probably think 
they will be arrested just for watching it. :-D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-uwbrqFN7M

So how many laws did you break today?  Most people break about 20 every 
day without even knowing it.  Of course the lame way our government 
(both local, state and federal) is they pass new laws without rescinding 
obsolete ones. Gotta show I'm doing somethin' to get re-elected, yook, 
yook.





[FairfieldLife] Hackers

2013-04-02 Thread Richard J. Williams
Reuters - A computer hacker was sentenced on Monday 
to three years and five months in prison for stealing 
the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad 
users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news 
anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul...

'U.S. computer hacker gets three-and-a-half years for 
stealing iPad user data'
http://tinyurl.com/c72z58j



Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers

2013-04-02 Thread Bhairitu
On 04/02/2013 09:20 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
 Reuters - A computer hacker was sentenced on Monday
 to three years and five months in prison for stealing
 the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad
 users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news
 anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul...

 'U.S. computer hacker gets three-and-a-half years for
 stealing iPad user data'
 http://tinyurl.com/c72z58j

And your point is?

I just tried to post a comment on a news site that uses DISQUS. Usually 
if my avatar is showing when I enter a comment I'm logged in.  The 
avatar was showing and when I clicked post this red banner shows up 
about authenticating.  Annoying.  So I go to a link where I 
authenticate through Yahoo.  This usually works but today it throws an 
error.  I hate DISQUS and I think it is lazy web sites that use it.  I'm 
beginning to wonder if they are spies for DHS.



Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers

2013-04-02 Thread Share Long
Maybe they're spies for the Chinese too.  And the Illuminati.  They all want to 
know what we're up to (-:

I just assume that if I post or email, anybody who wants to see it, can see it. 
 Makes life simpler that way.
But really, all those spies need to a GET A LIFE!




 From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers
 

  
On 04/02/2013 09:20 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
 Reuters - A computer hacker was sentenced on Monday
 to three years and five months in prison for stealing
 the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad
 users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news
 anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul...

 'U.S. computer hacker gets three-and-a-half years for
 stealing iPad user data'
 http://tinyurl.com/c72z58j

And your point is?

I just tried to post a comment on a news site that uses DISQUS. Usually 
if my avatar is showing when I enter a comment I'm logged in.  The 
avatar was showing and when I clicked post this red banner shows up 
about authenticating.  Annoying.  So I go to a link where I 
authenticate through Yahoo.  This usually works but today it throws an 
error.  I hate DISQUS and I think it is lazy web sites that use it.  I'm 
beginning to wonder if they are spies for DHS.


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers

2013-04-02 Thread Bhairitu
I actually got a reply back from DISQUS support and they mentioned that 
third party cookies need to be enabled.  Which they were.  I think there 
was some problem with DISQUS this morning because when  went back to the 
news item there were no additional comments from the time I was there.  
Also trying to relink with DISQUS through Yahoo threw a bug and still 
does this afternoon.

Thing is rather than just set up an account with DISQUS I want to 
continue using the way I've been posting since I can't transfer the old 
one into a new DISQUS account.

On 04/02/2013 02:33 PM, Share Long wrote:
 Maybe they're spies for the Chinese too.  And the Illuminati.  They all want 
 to know what we're up to (-:

 I just assume that if I post or email, anybody who wants to see it, can see 
 it.  Makes life simpler that way.
 But really, all those spies need to a GET A LIFE!



 
   From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:55 AM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers
   


 On 04/02/2013 09:20 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
 Reuters - A computer hacker was sentenced on Monday
 to three years and five months in prison for stealing
 the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad
 users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news
 anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul...

 'U.S. computer hacker gets three-and-a-half years for
 stealing iPad user data'
 http://tinyurl.com/c72z58j
 And your point is?

 I just tried to post a comment on a news site that uses DISQUS. Usually
 if my avatar is showing when I enter a comment I'm logged in.  The
 avatar was showing and when I clicked post this red banner shows up
 about authenticating.  Annoying.  So I go to a link where I
 authenticate through Yahoo.  This usually works but today it throws an
 error.  I hate DISQUS and I think it is lazy web sites that use it.  I'm
 beginning to wonder if they are spies for DHS.


   



[FairfieldLife] Hackers

2013-03-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
They're an organization that should be taken seriously, 
and anyone who is thinking about their network and their 
security should consider them a force to be reckoned 
with...

New York Times:
http://tinyurl.com/chmom8u



[FairfieldLife] Hackers can turn your home computer into a bomb [1 Attachment]

2011-01-28 Thread Tom Pall
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http://tinyurl.com/4mkxf7c

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