This article describes how your mail system can be exploited so as to provide a covert communications channel between an aggressor and their proxy in your midst. A channel whereby commands can be sent to your computer, and information returned from your computer, but you, the user are unable to see the traffic, albeit that such exchanges are happening as you use the computer quite normally.

Practical Covert Channel Attack Using MAPI

"North Korea has revealed to the United States that it has a secret and active nuclear weapons program, an acknowledgment made only after Pyongyang was confronted with evidence that it has enough plutonium for at least two nuclear weapons, senior administration officials said Wednesday.
North Korean officials confirmed U.S. suspicions during this month's high-level U.S. visit to Pyongyang, led by James Kelly, the assistant secretary of state for Asian affairs. "

OK, raise your hand if you hadn't already guessed this.

CNN.com - U.S.: North Korea admits it has nuke program

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The conviction meant Andersen could no longer audit publicly traded companies, but it was by then a moot point since the indictment had caused nearly all of the firm's publicly traded clients to leave.
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They got a slap on the wrist.

Andersen Gets Five Years, Fined $500,000

"Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows. "

Cygwin

Use /usr/local or die!

Proper UNIX Hierarchy

Type "Intrusion Response Procedure" into google and you're likely to get nothing. Just lots of references to "you should create an IRP, blah, blah, blah..." Well, I found a reasonable paper. Here it is.

Intrusion Response Paper with Substance

"A mummified dinosaur, unwrapped from the rocks of Montana, has revealed how the creature looked and how it lived 77 million years ago — down to the texture of its skin and the contents of its stomach, scientists say."

Dino-mummy shows some skin

"While Intel and AMD offer new PC processors with 533MHz and 333MHz bus connections to system memory, IBM this week will unveil a new PowerPC processor with a 900MHz bus capable of funneling the CPU up to 6.4GB of information per second. Widespread speculation has it that IBM's first customer will be Apple Computer, which will drop its current Motorola PowerPC G4 processors in favor of the faster new IBM chip. "

IBM Unveils New PowerPC (The Next Mac?) CPU

I know it's sort of a terrible premise, but it's also fricking funny.

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