No brainer idea to make credit card skimming harder for crooks

Credit/debit card skimming has become insanely cheap, and easy to do in recent years. Check out this article from ArsTechnica on the most common skimmers being used.

What if companies like Diebold that build and sell ATM machines were to use transparent plastic on the face of the machines …

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IPSec notes...

Updates to OpenBSD's IPSec support back in 2007. very kick ass.

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html

This is a nice easy reference for 2 OpenBSD peers creating an IPSec VPN:

http://www.packetmischief.ca/openbsd/doc/ipsec.html

And the short version of the above:

http://m4dsk1llz …

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apple fails again with 2 minute iphone pwn... DD-WRT gets CSRF pwn...

Both articles posted via /..

Apple's iPhone 3Gs encryption sucks.

My (once) favorite OSS broadband router firmware gets a nasty.

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Botnet sound scary? It is. ;)

be careful of what sites you browse to, what files you download, and take caution if your windows PC starts acting funny.

This article titled "America's 10 Most wanted Botnets" shares with readers what some of the nasty things these virus/malware/blah blah blah(it's all bad stuff!) are …

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Links to fun stuff

How to be sucessfully lazy - http://blog.liferemix.net/lazy-productivity-10-simple-ways-do-only-three-things-today

Why ActiveX+web front-end to your SSL VPN is BAD! - http://www.sensepost.com/blog/2237.html

NetFlow tools - http://www.openbsd.org + http://www.mindrot.org/projects/pfflowd/ + http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flowd/ + http://www.dynamicnetworks.us/netflow …

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