Attention NYC smokers and drinkers!
AT RAVEN
194 Ave. A
NYC NY 10009
(212) 529-4712
www.raven-nyc.com

Sat. March 29th:
SMOKE OUT PARTY:
The last day that smoking will be allowed in bars in NYC and we've got a great party in honor of that. Prizes will be given away, smokin' Rock 'N' Roll will be played, and everyone is invited to smoke to their heart's content. It's the last time you'll be able to do so until this stupid law is repealed !

@stake giving us some more fun with Dawin.
QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Administration Server Multiple vulnerabilities.
Arbitrary Command Execution!
Physical Path Revelation!
Arbitrary Directory Listings!
Cross Site Scripting! Buffer Overflow in MP3 Broadcasting Module!
Read more here.

From the tommEE pickles mailbag:
I got this email a couple of weeks ago, pure genius.

From: shi pa <shipaya@hotmail.com>
To: "tommEE@evilgenius.net" <tommEE@evilgenius.net>
Subject: you phreak! look!

hey, what a poor man! what the hell ya doing there?just jerking around everyday? you look like a real psycho
what a freak! i'm a mannager of chat site.
http://www.kailove.com/chat/ecafe/
you also need to take a new leaf through chat. kekekeke
your butt and shithead is out of shape and not in full swing.
hey, fuckin man! you're just like dave in a deep shit. and look cocky.
how about being here hehehehe

our site is safe from hacking and even cracking. you can't hack here either.
i believe you will be better through this chat room, shitty pervert kekeke
bye see you. i hope you'll see again, fob hhh

Are we a little too insecure?
I was shocked the week because the launch of a new website. Not that I am worried enough about waking up to a nucular winter that makes me tune in to CNN every day and night but our goverment has raised the threshold. The have launched ready.gov a site dedicated to helping you prepared for the next terrorist attack. Next terrorist attack? When had we decided that our security still isn't good enough in the United States that we have to be scared to up the commerce sales level. Why doesn't the goverment ship us kits if they are so worried about our safety. If I don't protect myself the right way will the goverment say it was my fault I died? Just damn silly.

Researchers have discovered a way to retrieve customers' cash machine PINs in an average of 15 tries
It is due to a weakness in the cryptographic model used by many HSMs to encrypt, store and retrieve PINs. The paper, written by Mike Bond and Piotr Zielinski, goes on to say that typical security countermeasures such as intrusion detection systems are all but useless against this attack. Many banks have systems in place that prevent users from trying another PIN once they've failed three times in a row. These failures generate alerts within the bank. But, as the authors point out, an internal attacker "can discover a PIN without raising the alarm by inserting the attack transactions just before genuine transactions from the customer which will reset the count." Read more about it here.