Archive for December 29th, 2005

Article: Matt Thornton’s “Why Doesn’t Everyone Train Alive?”

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Matt Thornton, founder of the Straight Blast Gym and pioneer of Mixed Martial Arts as a training method, has graciously given permission to Bullshido to feature selected articles on his views and philosophy on MA. Since his concept of "Aliveness&…

EFF and Sony BMG Reach Settlement over Flawed DRM

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

“The proposed settlement will provide significant benefits for consumers who bought the flawed CDs,” said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. “Under the terms, those consumers will get what they thought they were buying–music that will play on their computers without restriction or security risk. EFF is continuing discussions with Sony BMG, however, and believes that there is more they can do to protect music lovers in the future.”

“Sony agreed to stop production of these flawed and ineffective DRM technologies,” noted EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. “We hope that other record labels will learn from Sony’s hard experience and focus more on the carrot of quality music and less on the stick of copy protection.”

Hollywood Boulevard Rebounds

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Security Now 20: Your Questions, Steve’s Answers

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Security Now! with Steve Gibson, Episode 20 is ready for your consideration.

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This week your questions and Steve’s answers.

But first, notice of a very serious security flaw in all versions of Windows. This hole takes advantage of poor design choice in the Windows metafile interpreter and can be exploited by a malicious web site or by email attachments.

Despite the fact that the hole was discovered only yesterday, there are already numerous web sites trying to take advantage of it.

There’s no patch yet from Microsoft, but fortunately the fix is very easy. Steve documents it at grc.com. Please go there now and apply the fix.

On this show we discuss:

  • Logging into secure sites

  • Hamachi troubles
  • Getting WPA security on old wi-fi equipment
  • Securing Windows Remote Desktop
  • The unreliabilty of fingerprint scanners
  • Using Gmail on a public network
  • NAT routers vs hardware firewalls
  • Speed issues with VPN
  • Removing the Sony rootkit
  • ISPs that only offer private IP addresses
  • SSID hiding and why it doesn’t work
  • Port knocking as a form of security

Steve also hosts transcripts, show notes, and a 16kbps version of the show for the bandwidth impaired at grc.com.

Running time: 53:59

This Week In Flame - 12/29/05

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Equalizer exposed! Morrissey impersonator humiliated! Satan’s scrotum emptied! Film at 11