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Today I introduced myself, to my own feelings!

Finally, yesterday evening I’ve seen Anathema live. By surprise last Tuesday I was talking to a friend and found out that Anathema will be playing live in Limassol, Cyprus. It was a very good concert, they played well live and played tracks from Serenades, The Silent Enigma, Eternity, Alternative 4, Judgement and A Natural disaster, 2 and a half hours concert. Since it was a small club (with just around 300 people) it was possible to meet the guys personally after the concert and have a chat. None of them offered a beer though (not like Septic Flesh) even if I have all their cd’s Just thought of uploading some pictures

Vincent live (Robert the artistic photo )
Danny (the guitarist) the emotional
Female Vocalist
Anathema Live

Hackers, errrm, security researchers compete whose dick is bigger…
This time publicly, winner gets a blue rosette ribbon.
More here.

Inside the shadowy underworld where rogue employees sell holes in their companies’ software. The buyers: security firms, mobsters, and — surprise — the U.S. government.

More here

Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Darkreading has an article on Malware-Driven Child Porn.  While child porn is definitely bad, and anyone doing it should be punished - there is no question about that - it is not as simple as many people make it to be. Being in possession of child porn does not (and should not) mean that you’re doing it. There are so many ways that child porn can end up on one’s computer. The article mentions malware, but simply browsing to some websites might be enough to cache such content - and the websites need not have visible child porn.

The person featured in the article lost his job and his family as a result of this malware infection. How many victims will it take until the witch hunt is over?

Paul Ewald gave a talk at TED about how can we make harmful organisms more mild. Today’s pharmaceutical research and products work on fighting evolution of harmful organisms. His suggestions is that this is mostly wrong and that we should instead be identifying ways to make evolution work for us and make it happen. Of course he describes a few studies to prove the point.

I wonder how this applies to other areas of study, like Infosec. While some might see Infosec as a technology problem, it is in fact mostly a human problem in the end of the day.

“Context over dogma” as BMW like to put it …

Lacoste’s ad for Roland Garros 2008 & 75th anniversary celebration:

I <3 futuristic visor.

quoting Steve Jobs:

“Next time you’re in Malta and you need an IPhone 3G…” .. next time you’re in Malta offer me a beer please.

Go buy it @ 199$

Quchjaj qoSlIj!

This is crap. The shirt is nice.. the people at the airport, not so nice

The presentation at Shmoocon:
“Virtual Worlds, Real Exploits”

erm.

here

Wired is running a article and a video on Christopher Tarnovsky’s mad skills.

Seems like the waterfront website’s been hit with the SQL injection attacks that have been going around lately. Back in July 2007 we had reported the same website being defaced by some Turkish hacker group. Then later on there were other defacements, but we didn’t bother typing that one out. And finally poop hits the fan

Some complaints from a local forum here. Thanks to mr zero6 for the heads up.

I checked exploited flash files and  bug exloited (BugTraq ID:29386)  will attempt to download real malware to C:\6123t.exe and uses for it urlmon.dll

So Users of GFI WebMonitor 4 should be protected in most cases.

Good info about this vol. is at this blog: http://ddanchev.blogspot.com

It’s called Lion King 800, comes from China, has the 3D surround sound, TV and a camera, contains three sim and remains on stand-by one year. A dream phone for about 150 euros. But there’s a catch. The material with which it is built is not tested. The batteries can burst because they have a power ten times higher than standard. The police post has seized sixty from a merchant in Bordighera.

http://genova.repubblica.it/multimedia/home/2273906?ref=rephpsp5

This site is hosted with a provider called HostGator. This morning I got an email from them that was caught as spam since it looked like a phishing email, asking me to change my password. However it looks very legitimate . Take a look at the forum post to see why they are changing everyone’s passwords. There’s a hell lot of reasons .. so next thing, I’m changing this password.