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Several of the characteristics of botnets are not only significant in and of themselves, but are emblematic of some of the unique challenges that cyberwarfare as a whole presents. This is part of a series run by Stratfor with some additional commentary
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In my previous post , which is taken from a series that Stratfor has run recently, we looked at some of the motivations of hackers. Let's take a look at some more. Altruism The tenets of altruism vary greatly, depending on the person subscribing to it,
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Why do hackers do what they do? Are they motivated by something? Altruism? Greed? Strafor examined this in one of their recent articles, parts of which I have below with some additional comments from me. The personal motivations
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There are more than just blue, black and white hat hackers. There are a few more types of folks out there that don't fit into the above categories. This article is taken from Stratfor with some commentary by myself. Coders Many of the hackers described
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One of the other web sites I subscribe to is Stratfor . It's a global intelligence website and doesn't really have much to do with spam. But I like politics so I read it. They have some articles which you can get for free, but the better
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted three posts about security and back doors. My point was that in computer systems, secret back doors are useful to certain people but inherently weaken the overall security of the system. Well, just yesterday, I drove
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I've blogged about broken CAPTCHA's in the past, but I thought I'd touch on it again. Websense is reporting on their discovery that a new botnet is breaking Hotmail's CAPTCHA in order to send out spam. It really is a nice report and demonstrates
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Continuing on from my previous posts, I thought I'd talk a bit more about one of the hallmarks of my designs - the ability to override automated algorithms. As a stock trader, there are two types of systems. Mechanical trading and discretionary
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Following on from my previous post, I thought I'd talk a little bit about the designs of the projects that I am in charge of. Now to any of my Microsoft superiors who may be reading this post, fear not. I have never put any security back doors
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The other day I was talking to one of our new Program Managers who comes from a computer security company. I jokingly said to him "Great! We use your products, now you can tell us all the back doors to get around your product's security
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