Newsweek Reports Zombie Invasion

Newsweek.com becomes the latest in a long list of sites that will reveal an Easter egg if you enter the Konami Code (↑, ↑, ↓, ↓, ←, →, ←, →, B, A, enter) correctly.

Zuckerburg Apologizes for Facebook Privacy Changes

A video recently went up where Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the time to apologize to Facebook’s users for the multiple recent confusing and “open by default” changes to Facebook’s privacy settings.

114,000 iPad Owners: The Script that Harvested Their E-mail Addresses

Here is the script referenced in the Gawker story from earlier that describes how a number of early iPad 3G subscribers, including names like Harvey Weinstein, Michael Bloomberg, Diane Sawyer, and Rahm Emanuel had their e-mails revealed via a poorly designed web application hosted by AT&T.

Going After BP

BP continues to be the subject of criticism following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the hacking community appears to be taking exception to some of BP’s recent public relations activities in the online arena.

Formspring.me XSS Vulnerability

Formspring.me, a newly popular social networking site, has a fundamental cross site scripting flaw that allows one logged in user to steal another user’s session, but also may allow users to find out who posted a nasty comment about them.

Thou Shalt Not Send Naked Pictures…To Anyone Ever

It’s becoming a familiar story, an angry parent of a student reports finding inappropriate images, self taken naked pictures and videos, on that student’s cell phone. But this story has an unusual wrinkle: the student is a 20 year-old at the University of Central Florida, the girlfriend of 32 year-old Mandarin High School football coach Jason Robinson.

For Access Call, or Walk Right In

Presumably the door sign should read “For Access Call…or Just Walk In”.

Happy 30th Birthday Pac-Man, Google Style

Hat’s off to Google for unveiling perhaps the greatest tribute today to the 30th anniversary of the iconic video game Pac-Man.

Best Information Security Commercial Evah…

Say what you will about LIGATT security, the publicly traded (around 0.0004) Georgia company headed by self styled security expert and convicted felon (federal conspiracy and wire fraud) Gregory Evans: they are responsible for what might be the greatest information security commercial ever created.

As you can see, the protagonist is down on his luck, but [...]

Bo Dietl Lost His Guns

Richard “Bo” Dietl lost his guns. The former NYPD Detective and media contributor on Fox News and the Don Imus show, founder of Beau Dietl & Associates, subject of a film where he was played by Stephen Baldwin, and Chairman of the New York State Security Guard Advisory Council was featured on Jon Stewart’s show for being himself burglarized. What’s funny is that his description of what happened, particularly his focus on the security measures he had in place but that weren’t used, follow the well worn pattern of responses one typically hears after an information security breach (but we were PCI compliant, we had IDS in place, it was a sophisticated attacker, everyone gets hacked, and so forth).