“Mitnick, the Mumia Abu-Jamal of the hacker world who inspired a “Free Kevin” movement, was imprisoned for four and a half years, beginning in February 1995, before he was finally sentenced to 46 months in 1999, with some credit for time already served. Part of that time he was held in solitary confinement and without […]
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Free Kevin Mitnick!
August 29th, 2008 · No Comments
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Turn on “always use HTTPS” in your GMail
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
“A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers’ conference in Las Vegas. Last week, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication. Users […]
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