From lyger at attrition.org Sat Jun 16 10:50:38 2007 From: lyger at attrition.org (lyger) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] postal: the cow was not pleased Message-ID: http://attrition.org/postal/p0014.html mushroom stamp politics still suck a tribute to josh (#4 in a series) everyone duck a different kind of abuse you want the truth? PETE HAS MAIL eureka! OSVDB: yeah, we want one of those too no idea who she means From lyger at attrition.org Fri Jun 22 04:21:08 2007 From: lyger at attrition.org (lyger) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:21:08 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] See No Evil: A Background On Content Filters Message-ID: http://attrition.org/security/rant/z/filter.html Fri Jun 22 00:16:53 EDT 2007 Submicron In 1999, Senator John McCain introduced a bill to the United States Senate attempting to limit children's exposure to pornography and other controversial material online. The final version of this bill was passed as part of an omnibus spending bill on December 15, 2000 and signed into law on December 21, 2000. The bill, now known as the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), requires schools and libraries to operate a technology protection measure with respect to any of its computers with Internet access that protects against access through such computers to visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors, and further that such a technology protection measure be employed during any use of such computers by minors. Provisions within the law exist to require the ability to override the protection for adults, to enable access for bona fide research or other lawful purpose. Although previous attempts to restrict indecent or objectionable Internet content failed to overcome Supreme Court challenges on First Amendment grounds, CIPA took a completely different approach. The federal government lacked any direct method by which to control local school or library boards. Many schools and libraries, however, utilized universal service fund discounts, derived from the universal service tax paid by telecommunications users, to purchase Internet access, computers and networking equipment. CIPA requires that schools and libraries using these, so-called E-Rate discounts, purchase and use a technology protection measure on every computer connected to the Internet. Interestingly, CIPA does not provide funding for the purchase of the required technology protection measure. [...] From lyger at attrition.org Fri Jun 29 23:07:15 2007 From: lyger at attrition.org (lyger) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] errata: Security Companies updates Message-ID: http://attrition.org/errata/irony.html This page is a showcase of computer security companies that epitomize irony. Corporations and groups that espouse the ideals of secure computing and even go so far as to offer products and services promising such but have also been unable to keep their own systems from being attacked and compromised. These incidents range from corporate web defacements to virus/worm infections to spamming and other embarassing events. [07.06.27] - Symantec presenter spotted using KAV [07.06.27] - HP insider with "0day to sell"? [07.06.25] - ISC^2/CISSP websites vulnerable to XSS [07.06.20] - ITSecurity.com Spams [07.05.28] - University of Colorado at Boulder blames human error not Symantec for data breach [...]