Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:54 pm
Christopher wrote:It doesn't really, I see no Russians, Germans, or whatnot. I think it sounds more like NRA talk
Citing "The Constant Gardener" as my example of his more recent work -- see the movie or, better yet, read the book -- I will say definitely that le Carré has left the Cold War behind and moved on to keep up with modern times. His latest villains are Multinational Corporations and their nameless minions, who murder people to keep them silent. 
Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:41 am
It now looks as if team Kaos is attacking Zetapets. 
*trounces off to report to admin*
*trounces off to report to admin*
Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:33 am
In somewhat related news, it appears LiveJournal had to make some changes today because some accounts were compromised—possibly up to 900,000 of them—by a similar cookie grabber.
This makes me think. Does anyone remember a few months back, with the myspace.com pseudo-virus? That one made it so if you viewed an infected user lookup, your lookup became infected too. In the space of 24 hours, over 1 million people were infected with it.
And then there was something on xanga.com on new year's. I never looked up the details of it, but it was supposedly similar to the myspace one.
And now neopets, and livejournal.
So it seems that neopets isn't alone in this. This type of website is relatively new and the security kinks haven't all been worked out, and cracking them is just starting to become thought about.
An interesting thing to note is that the media picked up on all three of the other cases I talked about, but I haven't seen anything (and don't expect to) about neopets, even though it's a simliarly sized website. Another interesting thing, and probably the reason the media hasn't picked up on it, is that the number of accounts with problems on neopets was tiny compared to those: Livejournal was 900,000, myspace was over 1 million, I don't know about xanga but I'd expect it was similar.... and neopets was, as far as I know, under 1000.
As to why that is, I suspect—though it is just my suspicion— that it's partially because of the way neopets is set up, and mostly because the crackers themselves weren't as good as strong as the ones in the other cases.
This is ending without a conclusion now.
This makes me think. Does anyone remember a few months back, with the myspace.com pseudo-virus? That one made it so if you viewed an infected user lookup, your lookup became infected too. In the space of 24 hours, over 1 million people were infected with it.
And then there was something on xanga.com on new year's. I never looked up the details of it, but it was supposedly similar to the myspace one.
And now neopets, and livejournal.
So it seems that neopets isn't alone in this. This type of website is relatively new and the security kinks haven't all been worked out, and cracking them is just starting to become thought about.
An interesting thing to note is that the media picked up on all three of the other cases I talked about, but I haven't seen anything (and don't expect to) about neopets, even though it's a simliarly sized website. Another interesting thing, and probably the reason the media hasn't picked up on it, is that the number of accounts with problems on neopets was tiny compared to those: Livejournal was 900,000, myspace was over 1 million, I don't know about xanga but I'd expect it was similar.... and neopets was, as far as I know, under 1000.
As to why that is, I suspect—though it is just my suspicion— that it's partially because of the way neopets is set up, and mostly because the crackers themselves weren't as good as strong as the ones in the other cases.
This is ending without a conclusion now.
Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:55 am
The LiveJournal one was because of Firefox, if I'm reading this post correctly.
I find it amazing that there's people who refuse to believe that this is happening. I tried to explain it, but all they said is that they've just seen a bunch of people whining about how they got scammed and are faking it to get sympathy.
I find it amazing that there's people who refuse to believe that this is happening. I tried to explain it, but all they said is that they've just seen a bunch of people whining about how they got scammed and are faking it to get sympathy.
Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:10 pm
[quote]When you log in, it gives a reason. Yes, that reason may be incorrect - it's happened to me before. But there's still a reason- so don't go telling me they suspended you for no reason, because it's not true.[/quote][br]
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Some people will never listen or understand. 
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Some people will never listen or understand. [/quote]
Sun Jan 22, 2006 9:17 pm
http://www.noscript.net/
I found that last night looking for a FlashGot extention for Firefox. Has nayone tried this and find it affective against the scammers/hackers/whoever at all?
And what operating system is this mostly affecting? 200? XP?
I found that last night looking for a FlashGot extention for Firefox. Has nayone tried this and find it affective against the scammers/hackers/whoever at all?
And what operating system is this mostly affecting? 200? XP?
Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:37 am
Magica wrote:http://www.noscript.net/
I found that last night looking for a FlashGot extention for Firefox. Has nayone tried this and find it affective against the scammers/hackers/whoever at all?
And what operating system is this mostly affecting? 200? XP?
If that is the NoScript extension for Firefox, as far as I know, many have it. I personally, have never used this extension.. but reading the description, it appears useful. Of course.. you have to know how to set it up properly for it to be effective.
I don't believe CGers affect particular operating systems. If you have certain things enabled, and certain things unprotected, you're at a risk.