Dentistry enthusiast and amateur security researcher Justin Shafer is the latest casualty in the Government war on persons who speak out on web insecurity. Shafer discovered a flaw in dental record software which led to the discovery of a public FTP server that contained a trove of unsecured patient dental records. (archived) Despite the responsible disclosure of his discoveries, Shafer's home was raided by FBI agents on Tuesday on behalf of the software maker's parent company Patterson Dental. The company is claiming he “exceeded authorized access” in accessing its FTP server as defined under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. A seized property list indicates that federal agents took 29 items from Shafer's home including dental magazines. While Preet Bharara is likely foaming at the mouth at the possibility of prosecuting the case, the government has yet to formally charge Mr. Shafer.
Category Archives: Security
Nth French Republic Raids Local Google Outpost
Tax inspectors of the government of the Nth French Republic have raided a Paris office maintained by United States based surveillance agency Google.1 The Nth French Republic's Finance Ministry insists the surveillance outfit owes them ~2 billion United States dollars. Sorry for your loss.
Known locally as La Google. ↩
Ivanpah Solar Plant Sets Self On Fire
This week Unit 3 of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility set itself on fire when the mirrors sent collected sunlight to a portion of the tower incapable of handling the thermal energy. Environmentalists have accused the plant of being a "mega-trap" slaughtering wildlife and releasing carbon emissions when it routinely incinerates birds. With Unit 2 down for maintenance only Unit 1 is producing electricity at this time.
LinkedIN Dump Leaked
A post on LinkedIn's blog this morning announced that data had been released which "claims to be email and hashed password combinations of more than 100 million LinkedIn members from that same theft in 2012" A hacker known only as "Peace" was offering the complete dump on a darknet marketplace The Real Deal for the price of 5 Bitcoin. While LinkedIn claims to have increased security measures since the 2012 hack many users were still using the same password, likely across multiple sites. Passwords from that breach were unsalted, making it likely the majority were cracked within a few days after the hack. The company said there was no indication that any new security breach had occurred.
Transmayos Throw Wrench In Hussein Bahamas' Bathroom Brouha
Last week much of the American media's news pipelines were constipated by the announcement that President Hussein Bahamas (WOT: nonperson) intended to make the etiquette of bathroom selection a Federal matter with strict rules enforced by the criminal gang in Washington DC. The crux of the move by Hussein Bahamas is to ensure schools are compelled to force students to use bathrooms that correspond with the student's outward gender expression. Hussein Bahamas' announcement however regressively adhered to a male/female gender binary ignoring the increase in individuals who have transitioned into the mayogender (archived). Continue reading
Hussein Bahamas "Justice" Department To Jail US Citizen Indefinitely Without Charges
Former Philadelphia police sergeant Francis Rawls has been held at the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center for seven months without any charges being filed, and lawyers from the Hussein Bahamas "Justice" department are seeking to have him continue to be held until either he surrenders encryption keys or Mr. Rawls body ceases to continue sustaining his life. Prosecutors have no evidence that Rawls committed any crime, but they insist they would have an abundance of evidence if only Mr. Rawls would just incriminate himself by disclosing the means to decrypt this volume. The 5th amendment to the United States consitution normally constrains prosecutors and courts from compelling defendants to incriminate themselves, but the last supreme court Justice died in February and lesser appellate court judges who could intervene are too busy refereeing sportsball.
Bitcoin Fork "Core" Plans To "Open Up" Contribution Process
The "Core" fork of the reference Bitcoin client plans to open up their development process in order to solicit changes from parties uninterested in technology. The move is supposedly inspired by the ClassicCoin coup attempt as developers of the "Core" client prepare their own "CoreCoin" coup attempt. As other hostile social engineers did before, they will attempt to move value from actual Bitcoin to their altcoin by fraudulently misrepresenting their effort as some sort of "natural evolution" or enhancement of Bitcoin.
Unlike the ClassicCoin team this different merry brand of fraudsters will lean on their history of conning the mining cartel1 into enforcing various option "soft forks" unrelated to the actual Bitcoin protocol as a sort of magical token of legitimacy. Nevertheless their claims of "stewardship" over Bitcoin have still less basis in fact than the Australian Fraudster Hoaxtoshi's claims of having created Bitcoin.
The "CoreCoin" team has not yet publically made any content containing statements on what they will bring to the table actually justifying the grave move to hard fork Bitcoin deferring to their need, like Gavin did, to do it so people know it can be done.
The fact that the CoreCoin developers and leaders of the major mining pools have gathered together and entered into contracts together is prima facie evidence that "Yes Virginia, there is a mining cartel." ↩
Ransomware Industry Tightening Product Quality
Proofpoint brings us news that the makers of the CryptXXX ransomware have patched a vulnerability in their product which allowed various antivirus companies to produce "decryptor" products which would recover user files without payment. Numerous ransomware producers have seen their revenue suffer as antivirus companies produced software that exploited vulnerabilities in their ransomware to circumvent payment. If other ransomware ventures follow the example of CryptXXX in improving their own products, the industry as a whole could see substantial growth over the next year.
Abducted Liberty Reserve Founder Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison
Arthur Budovsky, a Costa Rican National living in Spain at the time he was abducted to suffer a show trial in the United States, has been sentenced by said kangaroo court to 20 years in prison. Preet Bharara's (WOT:nonperson) office was naturally involved with the prosecution offering:
Despite all his efforts to evade prosecution, including taking his operations offshore and renouncing his citizenship, Budovsky has now been held to account for his brazen violations of U.S. criminal laws
Even though all of those measures would to the contrary suggest that Budovsky instead simply had no interest in having any relationship with the United States at all. Unfortunately for Budovsky the United States was far less willing than he to end the relationship on amicable terms choosing to subject a man who did everything in his power to cleanly sever the relationship to sanctions as though they were still connected in any way beyond the abduction of Budovsky. Sorry for your laws.
DHS Officer Breaks, Performs Allegedly Unsanctioned Killings
An officer (WOT:nonperson) of one of the many "law enforcement" agencies associated with the United States Department of Homeland Security apparently broke today and killed people outside of the scope of its service to the criminal gang in Washington, DC. Two plainclothes "Law enforcement" officers (WOT:nonpersons) whose service to the regime was unaffected by the glitch experienced by the defective officer reportedly followed him around a shopping center for approximately an hour trying to find a polite opportunity to bring him in for maintenance.