A group of 3,000 Swedish file sharers have succeeded in getting their organisation, called the Church of Kopimism, recognised as a religion by the Swedish authorities. Kopimism holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols. The movement has been trying to gain official recognition for their beliefs in sharing and data copying since 2010. The church’s name comes from “Kopimi”, pronounced “copy me”. The organisation believes that communication and sharing is sacred and needs to be respected. They also think it … Continue reading
PDF The Russian security expert Alexander Polyakov of ERPScan has presented a security hole in SAP’s J2EE engine, NetWeaver, which allows an attacker to create new administrator accounts remotely. Polyakov demonstrated the hole at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. He first searched, using Google, for a particular string that was typically an indicator of the Management Portal for SAP systems. Then, using the URL from the search, he used a Perl script which executed the actual attack in … Continue reading
Some websites don’t allow to save your credentials, because it has the option “autocomplete=off” in its sourcecode. Sometimes this option can drive you mad, especially when you’re using the website more often. Some websites, for example Hotmail / MSN / live, GMail, Yahoo! Mail / flickr, and some banks, specify that your user name and password should not be saved. You can override this behavior. Firefox 3.5 and later won’t offer to store a new password if you are in … Continue reading
Brussels – June 21, 2011 – AEPOC, the European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services, welcomes the successful police operation against a large scale pay-TV pirate in Cyprus. The investigation was initiated by AEPOC members and its partners – BFBS, BSkyB, Nova and Irdeto supported the undercover action during past months and assisted the police in a raid with a team of specialists: On June 14th a 49-year-old Cypriot man was arrested for illegally providing subscriptions to … Continue reading
Sony has confirmed on the official PlayStation Blog that it turned off the PlayStation Network (PSN) and Qriocity services on Wednesday 20 April after there had been an “external intrusion” which affected the services. The company says it needs to have the systems offline while it is conducting an investigation. As of writing, the systems are still unavailable. Early reports from Sony suggested a DDoS attack was in progress, but those messages have since been removed. Suspicion had initially fallen … Continue reading
On its company blog, RSA has released details about the server break-in it reported about two weeks ago. According to Uri Rivner, head of the company’s “Consumer Identity Protection” division, the intruders used a backdoor that they installed using infected emails. The emails reportedly contained an Excel spreadsheet with an embedded, specially crafted Flash file. When the spreadsheet was opened, Flash Player started the Flash applet to play the file. A flaw that has since been fixed by Adobe enabled … Continue reading
Richard Hillesley has a look at Nokia’s curious relationship with open source, finds out where it all went wrong and has a conversation with a survivor of its effects. Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft is remarkable for any number of reasons. Windows Phone 7 is shiny and new and has had good and bad reviews, but is still unproven. Microsoft has no great record in the market for mobile devices, and the market for such devices is characterised by short product … Continue reading