There has been a good effort to pull together existing open datasets that might be useful to #floodhack developers. However most of the EA’s flood-related datasets remain subject to restrictive licensing.]]>
The group known as the Syrian Electronic Army posted several articles on the Microsoft Office site, including one titled "hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army".
The group crowed that it had managed to hack into the blog's CMS [content management system] despite Microsoft's best efforts - and suggested it had access to employee login details. This could continue for quite a while. Two-factor authentication isn't any use if the intruder is inside the system and the system is big enough.]]>
Cyril Cattiaux: The iMessage protocol is strong. Only Apple or a powerful institution (NSA is randomly chosen as an example) could tamper with it.
TC: Does it require physical access to a user’s device? If not, then can you give some details on what info you need to make it happen?
CC: Basically, if you are Apple or the NSA, it doesn’t require any prerequisites. Await the demonstration: next October 17-18 at the HITB Security Conference in Asia.]]>
Having stuff like this done isn’t really the realm of doctors. Most Grinders rely on body modification artists to install their implants. I’ve had work done by the body modification master Steve Haworth in the past and have relied on him for advice on several project ideas. Steve instinctively knew the best way to go about the implantation in a way that would minimize chances for infection and would leave no scarring. The implant procedure itself went very smoothly and the pain was surprisingly minimal.
The first thing everyone asks is “why would you do this?” Honestly, I don’t feel the need to answer this question. People either get it or they don’t. I’m a Grinder, and we are notorious for getting it. Yes, he really had magnets implanted in his head so that he would have invisible headphones. Apart from the coil around his neck, obviously. (But as he points out, that can go under a shirt.)]]>
Because of the bug, some of the information used to make friend recommendations and reduce the number of invitations we send was inadvertently stored in association with people’s contact information as part of their account on Facebook. As a result, if a person went to download an archive of their Facebook account through our Download Your Information (DYI) tool, they may have been provided with additional email addresses or telephone numbers for their contacts or people with whom they have some connection. This contact information was provided by other people on Facebook and was not necessarily accurate, but was inadvertently included with the contacts of the person using the DYI tool. It really is the world's phone directory.]]>