Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well.
Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.
- Infocon to yellow for 24 hours.
* Infocon raised to yellow for Excel Web Components ActiveX vulnerability
Tags: ( infocon ) - I knew it was not going to end well when I first heard that ATMs were going to be armed with pepper spray.
Pepper Spray-Armed ATM Misfires, Shoots Workers | Threat Level | Wired.com
Tags: ( general ) - Didier gives us a nifty little tip on hiding the fact that our laptop is encrypted.
Quickpost: TrueCrypt's Boot Loader Screen Options << Didier Stevens
Tags: ( encryption truecrypt ) - The solution and winners for the first Panda Labs challenge are up.
1st Panda Challenge solution & winners - PandaLabs
Tags: ( challenge answer ) - This is cool. One of the teams that participated in the Defcon 17 CTF qualifiers made a comic of how they answered one of the challenges. (Hat tip: @mubix)
http://hackerschool.org/DefconCTF/17/B300.html
Tags: ( ctf defcon ) - Rafal talks about a comment spam toolkit. The comments are very interesting too.
Digital Soapbox - Preaching Security to the Digital Masses: Devastated by a Link-Spam Tool?
Tags: ( spam )
That's it for today. Have fun!
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Kevin