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Wireless routers are inexpensive, require minimal setup, and can cover wide physical areas. Unfortunately, these very properties also make them enticing targets for hackers.
“The proliferation of public Wi-Fi is one of the biggest threats to consumer data,” says David Kennedy, founder of information security firm TrustedSec.
The fact that anyone can join the network is what makes it so unsafe,” cautions Matthew Green, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins’ Information Security Institute. ”A password login to join the network might feel reassuring,” he adds, “but if everybody knows the password, that’s no better than not having one at all.”
One extremely common attack involves a hacker setting up a public Wi-Fi hotspot of their own at your favorite Wi-Fi watering hole. It will likely have a name very similar to the hotspot the legitimate business is offering.
Before connecting to any hotspot, ask an employee for the shop’s full network name and carefully check that it matches the one you see in your Wi-Fi menu.
Use SSL
Use a VPN. Someone snooping on traffic over the Wi-Fi network will just see garbled data passing between your computer or device and this secondary VPN server.

Inside w00w00 (1996-2003), the hacking collective whos members now run much of the Internet

Tells the inside story of a hacking group that was big back in the early days of the Internet
“Its online footprint consists almost entirely of the security tools and advisories issued by various participants of the group and media coverage garnered through the discovery of such software exploits”
The new attention revolves around a reunion, as yet another member of the old crew becomes a billionaire
Former members include:
- Jan Koum (WhatsApp)
- Shawn Fanning (Napster)
- Sean Parker (Napster, Facebook)
- Matt Conover (CloudVolumes)
Dug Song (Duo Security and Arbor Networks)
Michael A. Davis (CounterTack)
David McKay (Google and AdMob)
Josha Bronson (Yammer)
Joshua J. Drake (Accuvant Labs)
Andrew Reiter (Veracode)
Simon Roses Femerling (Microsoft Research)
Gordon Fyodor Lyon (creator of Nmap Security Scanner)
Adam O’Donnell (Immunet)
Mark Dowd (Azimuth Security)
Tim Yardley (researcher in critical infrastructure security)
- Other members now work at: Cloudmark, Duo Security, Hotmail, Google, Symantec, SecurityFocus, and Sourcefire
“We felt the world was ours to take,” says Anthony Zboralski, who is currently founder and CEO of Belua. “We were young, smart, ambitious and crazy; we could do things that few people thought were possible. A lot of us had a ferocious sense of entitlement.”

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Sky “High” Sales | Unfilter 80

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A lot’s happened over our holiday break, we’ll round up the critical revelations in the NSA spying programs, and the major legal challenges the NSA is facing.

Then: On January 1st 2014 recreational cannabis stores open their doors in Colorado, and sparked interest around the world. We’ll check in on the first few days of making history.

Now the national debate has started, and the pundits take to the air to weigh in, but their analysis misses the target.

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NSA is CRAZY

Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress | World news | theguardian.com

Sanders, in a letter dated 3 January, defined “spying” as “gathering metadata on calls made from official or personal phones, content from websites visited or emails sent, or collecting any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business”.

NSA exploring alternatives to holding database of domestic phone records

The NSA’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, told the advisory panel, the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, that the “NSA itself has seriously considered moving to a model in which the data are held by the private sector.” But, according to a review group member, Alexander told the group that “no one else wanted it — especially not the phone companies.” Alexander, the member said, “described it as a ‘bit of a hot potato.’ ”

ACLU will appeal ruling that NSA bulk phone record collection is legal

As expected, on Thursday the ACLU filed notice that it will appeal Pauley’s decision before the second circuit court of appeals. The civil liberties group said in a statement that it anticipates making its case before the appellate court in the spring.

“The government has a legitimate interest in tracking the associations of suspected terrorists, but tracking those associations does not require the government to subject every citizen to permanent surveillance,” deputy ACLU legal director Jameel Jaffer said in the statement.

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Devil Weed Takes Root in America

Colorado Recreational Marijuana Sales Exceed $5 Million In First Week

Owners of the 37 new dispensaries around the state reported first week retail sales to The Huffington Post that, when added together, were roughly $5 million.

Prices also were boosted by the state’s 25 percent tax on retail purchases, including a 15 percent excise tax and a 10 percent sales tax. Voters approved the levy in November. Local taxes can add more to what customers pay.

Colorado is running low on (legal) marijuana – The Margin – MarketWatch

Six days after sales became legal, stores are rationing how much they sell, and a company that makes cannabis-infused sparkling fruit drinks, chocolates, mints and more ran out of supplies in just three days, Denver’s local ABC affiliate reported. Among retailers, Lodo Wellness Center in downtown Denver, for example, is limiting customers to an eighth of an ounce, or one-eighth of what they can legally buy, it said.

The ArcView Group, which matches marijuana entrepreneurs and investors, has estimated the legalized pot market in the U.S. could reach $10.2 billion over the next five years, from $1.44 billion last year, as other states join Colorado and Washington in legalizing recreational marijuana use.

The Money Problem

“People think we all became millionaires,” Ortega said. “But as a business owner, I can’t write anything off for the last three years.”

Still, the federal prohibition means banks won’t accept marijuana businesses for traditional bank accounts, and retailers said they can’t take advantage of traditional business tax writeoffs.

“Absurd on every single level”: How the feds may be crippling the legal pot industry

Financial institutions don’t want to run afoul of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, which can charge fines of up to $500,000 per transaction for working with companies who sell illegal products. Though Colorado and Washington have been cleared for adult recreational use sales, and 21 states (plus the District of Columbia) have legalized pot for medicinal use, marijuana remains illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act. Even a state-owned bank, which one Washington lawmaker has proposed, would have to abide by federal banking laws. The discrepancy between state and federal law puts financial institutions at risk of money laundering prosecution, and they want precise assurances before assuming that risk. “They want the safe harbor to be so abundantly clear,” said Rep. Heck.

The irony here is rich. A year ago, British-based bank HSBC was fined $1.9 billion for actual money laundering for Mexican drug cartels, suspected of killing thousands of innocent civilians. HSBC had no problem doing very profitable business with the illegal drug trade, and they basically got away with it, with no criminal prosecution and a paltry fine. But in Washington and Colorado, you have legal businesses operating within state law, and no bank will touch them. “I guess they don’t think we’re big enough dollar-wise for them to risk it,” said Alex Cooley of Solstice. “But it’s crazy, in Washington, Bank of America is the state bank. They’ll take our tax revenue from the state but they won’t take our money.”

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