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    • The AirPort Security Update and the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack

      Posted by Billbar from daringfireball.net

      If last month’s “Hijack a MacBook in 60 Seconds or Less” saga had not occurred, this would not be a particularly noteworthy security update. But that saga did occur, and so the update is noteworthy. Apple went on the offensive, issuing statements to the press explicitly stating that these fixes were not addressing any specific vulnerabilities reported by David Maynor, Jon Ellch, or SecureWorks.

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    • Lies, Damned Lies, and MacBook Wi-Fi Hacks

      Posted by Billbar from daringfireball.net

      As I expected, my “MacBook Wi-Fi Hack Challenge” was not accepted by David Maynor or Jon Ellch. So what have we proven? Nothing about whether or not stock MacBooks are currently vulnerable to a Wi-Fi based exploit, of course — that they didn’t accept the challenge does not mean they haven’t found an exploit that works against the built-in MacBook AirPort card and driver. Rich Mogull makes several good points in his criticism of my challenge, and continues to present the most reasonable and cogent defense of Maynor/Ellch/SecureWorks that I’ve seen — but it mostly seems to boil down to arguing that a stunt like this is not a fair way to conduct a technical argument. But of course it wasn’t fair — the unfairness was the entire point of the challenge. I tried the fair and balanced route when I published “The Curious Case of the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack”, and in response received no answers.

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    • An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch

      Posted by Billbar from daringfireball.net

      The idea is that knowledge I’ll gain from seeing my opponent’s cards is worth more than the bet I expect to lose. Obviously, this isn’t something you want to do frequently. With that in mind, I’m issuing the following challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch: If you can hijack a brand-new MacBook out of the box, it’s yours to keep.

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    • Hacker sentenced to 37 months in prison

      Posted by Billbar from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Sending a message to malicious computer hackers "squirreled away in their basements," U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman on Friday sentenced a 21-year-old man to 37 months in federal prison for a global robot virus attack in 2004 and 2005. To achieve his aim, he essentially took remote control of huge numbers of computers around the world, causing them to spread the infection and increase his profits. The Seattle FBI's cybersquad believes the scheme netted Maxwell and two unnamed teenage accomplices more than $100,000.

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    • How Hizballah Hijacks the Internet

      Posted by Billbar from Time

      Since fighting broke out in Lebanon, they all have had their communications portals hijacked by Hizballah. Hackers from the militant Lebanese group are trolling the Internet for vulnerable sites to communicate with one another and to broadcast messages from Al-Manar television, which is banned in the U.S. In the cyberterrorism trade it is known as "whack-a-mole" — just like the old carnival game, Hizballah sites pop up, get whacked down and then pop up again somewhere else on the World Wide Web.

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