tommEE pickles to speak at Defcon.
It was announce on Tuesday that tommEE pickles will speak at this years Defcon, Defcon XI. The talk will be presented on Saturday afternoon and will be about Stealing Streaming Media and Protecting Streaming Servers. Defcon will be held August 1st - 3rd at the Alexis park hotel. If you don't know who to get there, join the defcon cannonball run or deathrace 2k. We will see you there.

This is getting scary... First we buy Exodus, now lets...
From the Infoworld article is states: U.S. customers of Cable and Wireless (C&W) will need to start looking for an alternative provider of corporate voice and data services after the financially troubled U.K. network operator announced sweeping restructuring changes Wednesday, including a complete exodus from its loss-making North American business. Yes there are going to be lots of job cuts too. Read more here

CERT announcement Today. Here is one set about SNORT
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Snort Preprocessors

There are two vulnerabilities in the Snort Intrusion Detection
System, each in a separate preprocessor module. Both
vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user running Snort, typically root

CERT Advisory CA-2003-13: Multiple Vulnerabilities in
Snort Preprocessors
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-13.html

Vulnerability Note VU#139129: Heap overflow in Snort
"stream4" preprocessor
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/139129

Vulnerability Note VU#916785: Buffer overflow in Snort
RPC preprocessor
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/916785

Ok, you know how much I know about TiVo.
The New York Times is saying the same thing I have been telling everyone for a long time. TiVo plans today to begin selling information about the viewing patterns of its customers to advertisers and programmers. TiVo currently logs every keystroke or button press. If you enable backdoors on your TiVo and press one of the clear-enter-clear codes, you will see the log files on your TiVo. I was just showing this to one of my friends the other day. Like I always say "more security=less convenience, more convenience=less privacy, more convenience=less security". Of course they were going to sell your data. You want privacy, stop using your TiVo. Check out this

I am not sure if I believe this but...
North Korea training hackers? Are we meant to go to war. Mirim College, in North Korea's mountainous Hyungsan region is teaching everything from writing computer viruses to penetrating network defenses and programming weapon guidance systems. Although, in the past North Korea has been assigned only two "class C" blocks of Internet addresses, none of which currently appear active, according to data from the American Registry for Internet Numbers and Asia Pacific Network Information Centre. The DPRK's limited connection to the Internet reportedly comes from satellite links provided by a company in South Korea, and by land lines from China. Maybe war is a little far afterall. Check out the story at Wired

What a wierd turn by Microsoft
It appears that Microsoft is saying that Internet Explorer 6 is the last IE from Microsoft. No more standalone IE. This is really wierd. I guess the Mac people will have to use mozilla, or Pheonix or anything that has always been better. Read more here