Archive for February, 2007

DFRWS 2007 File Carving Challenge

« 20 February 2007 | 7:44 | Forensics, Tools | No Comments | 1,455 Views »

The new DFRWS File Carving Challenge for the year 2007 has been released. The say: “The goal of this challenge is to design and develop AUTOMATED file carving algorithms that have high true positive and low false positive rates.”



Scammin the ATM machine

« 19 February 2007 | 17:47 | Security, Stories | No Comments | 2,033 Views »

I know, no news, but this british TV report shows how ATM skimming works and they have some real devices too.



should law enforcement hack?

« 17 February 2007 | 8:37 | Forensics, Security, Stories | No Comments | 1,779 Views »

In Germany we have an ongoing discussion about the question: should police or law enforment hack? Germany’s supreme court determined this month that police may not secretly hack into suspects’ computers.  F-Secure made a quick poll



making fun of “duck and cover” pictures

« 14 February 2007 | 8:07 | Humor, Security | No Comments | 2,158 Views »

The US government has a website with some “duck and cover” pictures. The fun thing is that these pictures are so ambiguous they could realy mean anything!



“The ultimate firewall” revisited

« 3 February 2007 | 19:35 | Humor, Security | 1 Comment | 2,186 Views »

Remember the Ultimate firewall of Marcus J. Ranum? He build a new version, inspired by powerpoint icons from firewall vendor presentations. So true. Well kids, don’t try this at your DMZ or backyard



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