2007.10.22 Daily Security Reading
by Rodney Campbell on Oct.23, 2007, under Security
10 IT security companies to watch
Data-leak prevention, behavior-based malware detection among focus areas.
Research Shows Image-Based Threat on the Rise
New Purdue University research shows steganography, long considered a minor threat, may be on the rise.
Patent filed for revolutionary technique to quickly recover lost passwords
ElcomSoft has harnessed the combined power of a PC’s Central Processing Unit and its video card’s Graphics Processing Unit.
In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells for the first time how the Motion Picture Association of America promised him money and power if he provided confidential information on TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search site.
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October 25th, 2007 on 6:47 pm
I like the “I was a hacker for the MPAA” post title. Wayback in the 1950s (?), before my time anyway, there used to be a serialised radio (and maybe TV later, but never in Oz as far as I can tell) show called “I was a communist for the FBI”. I think that’s where the line originated. Some of the old radio shows are on-line here.