] March 18 — Auction sites are flooded with
] sales of so-called “Universal digital Cable TV
] descramblers.” For a small price, buyers are
] told, they can see all the pay-per-view sports
] and movies they want. Free boxing, free Playboy,
] all for $10. Needless to say, there’s a very big
] catch.

I just saw these the other day on eBay I knew that it couldn't be that easy.

Would-be cable pirates conned

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On Sunday, March 2 at 7:20 p.m., computer systems personnel at UT Austin discovered a computer malfunction. The affected computer system was immediately shut down, and detailed analysis was begun.

What happened?

The malfunction was assessed to be the result of a deliberate attack from the Internet. Subsequent analysis revealed that a security weakness in an administrative data reporting system was exploited by writing a program to input millions of Social Security numbers. Those SSNs that matched selected individuals in a UT database were captured, together with e-mail address, title, department name, department address, department phone number, and names/dates of employee training programs attended. It is important to note that no student grade or academic records, or personal health or insurance information was disclosed.

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How many individual records were exposed?

Approximately 55,200 individuals had some of the above data exposed. This group includes current and former students, current and former faculty and staff, and job applicants.

Data Theft and Identity Protection

Google. It's not just for making yourself seem smarter than all the other 1Us3rS.

Net Hacker Tool du Jour: Google

One dead fly with one microprocessor implanted into the fly body. The chip is a fully operational web server on the internet, and enables online viewers to enter and exit the fly corpse.

Small web server mounted on a dead fly!

the Back-UPS CS 350 and the Back-UPS CS 500, in both 120-volt and 230-volt models

Only units with serial numbers having the first six characters in the following ranges are affected:

* AB0048 through AB0251
* BB0104 through BB0251
* JB0125 through JB0251

Any units with an "R" at the end of the serial number are not part of the recall.

APC - Safety Recall: Back-UPS CS models in both 120-volt and 230-volt units.

]It all started one day with this guy, the origional Etherkiller, ]developed with a few misc parts to warn new users that the IT
]department is not to be messed with. You too can make one at home,
]connect the transmit pins of the RJ-45 to HOT on 110VAC and the
]recieve pins to Common. Modify to suit tase by varying pinout.

The Etherkiller

This is a good laugh. Just follow the link...

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