Sunday, December 23, 2012
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.
The Fairfax-based National Rifle Association on Friday broke its week-long silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, Conn., and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the American family, our children, we as a …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
A hacker bragged of stealing 6.46 million passwords in a Russian forum and LinkedIn has confirmed that there was a data breach. Now what?
News was swirling around the Internet this morning about postings in a Russian forum indicating that over six million passwords had been obtained by an unauthorized user. After investigating, LinkedIn has confirmed in a blog post that it does believe that the passwords were compromised and that it was going to contact affected users with steps to protect their accounts. LinkedIn Directer Vicente Silveira wrote: "We are continuing to investigate this situation and here is what we are pursuing as far as next steps for the compromised accounts: The blog post goes on to explain that the stolen password data was partially encrypted via "hashing." Hashing is the practice of using an algorithm to alter values in a database by some known function…
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Be watchful: Flashback Trojan infects more than 500,000 Macs
Last September, Oracle announced that their Java plug-in had a security flaw that needed to be patched. If left un-patched, users could inadvertently install malware such as the Flashback trojan and the-just discovered trojan, Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a. Both of these seem to connect users to a botnet (a network of infected computers that can receive commands from a remote location, without the permission or knowledge of the computer owner). The number of computers infected is quite large, well over 500,000 have been infected. Russian security firm Kapersky even reported 274 computers in Cupertino, Calif., the home of Apple, had checked into the botnet servers after infection with the malware. Apple released an update for their two latest OS …
Bill Neary
6:57 am on Sunday, December 23, 2012
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