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At RSA, high security meets high fashion--sort of

Pictured here are just some of the many doodads up for grabs at the RSA Security Conference, taking place in San Francisco this week. Once again, our own National Security Agency remains one of the organizations that showed it knows how to make a splash at the show. This year they gave away these handsome blue-and-white tote bags that look like they came straight from a department store.

And, if you waited patiently in line, you could get this commemorative Department of Homeland Security medal. It's actually quite heavy. You can also slip it into your wallet and pretend … Read more

Hacking Intranet Websites from the Outside

Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of White Security, presented a talk about attacking Intranet networks, the networks inside an enterprise or home. He did not use Ajax, a Web 2.0 technology that lends itself to special kinds of abuse, but pure JavaScript. In several live demonstrations, Grossman showed how it was possible, by appending the URL in a victim's browser with a call to remotely hosted JavaScript to see a victim's browser history or learn an internal IP address. With such information, he was then able to scan the internal network and locate any valid servers operating inside the … Read more

CyberDefender raffles off 'Aqua Teen' LED

Last Wednesday, the execs in charge of the latest Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing campaign got a bit more publicity than they expected when the city of Boston called in bomb squads and shut down bridges after police mistakenly took the LED advertisements to be hazardous materials.

Six days and one $2 million fine for parent company Turner Broadcasting later, the Web is still captivated by the Mooninites who nearly shut down the city of Boston.

At this week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, the software company CyberDefender is giving away one of the infamous signs of Ignignokt (Err … Read more