Monthly Archives: June 2007

The Privacy Risks of Social Networking Sites

Interesting article on popular topic at IEEE Security & Privacy: What Anyone Can Know: The Privacy Risks of Social Networking Sites. Conclusion is: The most frequently identified risk of morphing our social lives and personal communications into the digital era (in … Continue reading

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Gap between Rich and Poor Can Generate Security Problems

For the many years the gap between the richest American’s and the rest of the work force continued to grow. US I.R.S numbers for 2003 show that only Americans in the top 1% of the income bracket, or those who … Continue reading

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Harry Potter 0day

Someone claims to have hacked the Bloomsbury Publishing network, and has posted what he says is the ending to the last Harry Potter book: The attack strategy was the easiest one. The usual milw0rm downloaded exploit delivered by email/click-on-the-link/open-browser/click-on-this-animated-icon/back-connect to … Continue reading

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We’re All a Little Nervous in a Post-1748 World

Many things are almost the same after ~260 years. See: Schneier on Security: We’re All a Little Nervous in a Post-1748 World

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Book: UNIX Architecture

This is a new Operating systems course textbook. More details here. I contributed a little bit. Note: Book is in Serbian language. Original title is UNIX arhitektura.

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