New Book: A Hacker’s Mind

I have a new book coming out in February. Its about hacking. A Hackers Mind: How the Powerful Bend Societys Rules, and How to Bend them Back isnt about hacking computer systems; its about hacking more general economic, political, and social systems. It generalizes the term hack as a means of...

Latest Snowden Leak Explains NSA Subversion of Tor Users

The latest Snowden documents, made public today, suggest the National Security Agency is able to peel back the veil on a small fraction of Tor users at a time, but overall the integrity of the anonymity network remains intact. Tor promises its users a level of anonymity online for their Web...

Researchers Working Toward Processor-Specific Attacks

The last two decades have been a cake walk for malware authors. More than nine-tenths of the world’s computers run some variation of the same operating system – Microsoft’s Windows. A similarly sized super-majority use an array of applications from the same vendor: Microsoft Office, the Internet...

rPSA-2006-0098-1 gdm

rPath Security Advisory: 2006-0098-1 Published: 2006-06-08 Products: rPath Linux 1 Rating: Severe Exposure Level Classification: Local System User Deterministic Privilege Escalation Updated Versions: gdm=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/2.8.0.8-0.1-1 References:...