Saturday, January 01, 2011

All Day, New Year's Day: The Three Stooges



All Day Today on AMC -- The Three Stooges.

Great stuff!

Happy New Year,

- ferg

Happy New Year!


Happy New Year to One and All.
 
 
 

Friday, December 31, 2010

For 2011: Fortitude, Strength, Honor


My Tarot Card for 2011.

Drawn at random, of course.


- ferg

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Mark Fiore: The Year That Wasn't



More Mark Fiore brilliance.

Via The San Francisco Chronicle.

Here's wishing you luck & prosperity in the coming new year.

- ferg

Affidavit Details FBI 'Operation Payback' Probe

Via The Smoking Gun.

As part of an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, the FBI has raided a Texas business and seized a computer server that investigators believe was used to launch a massive electronic attack on PayPal, The Smoking Gun has learned.


The FBI investigation began earlier this month after PayPal officials contacted agents and “reported that an Internet activist group using the names ‘4chan’ and “Anonymous” appeared to be organizing a distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attack against the company,” according to an FBI affidavit excerpted here.


The PayPal assault was part of “Operation Payback,” an organized effort to attack firms that suspended or froze WikiLeaks’s accounts in the wake of the group’s publication of thousands of sensitive Department of State cables. As noted by the FBI, other targets of this “Anonymous” effort included Visa, Mastercard, Sarah Palin’s web site, and the Swedish prosecutor pursuing sex assault charges against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder.


On December 9, PayPal investigators provided FBI agents with eight IP addresses that were hosting an “Anonymous” Internet Relay Chat (IRC) site that was being used to organize denial of service attacks. The unidentified administrators of this IRC “then acted as the command and control” of a botnet army of computers that was used to attack target web sites.

More here.

Monday, December 27, 2010

In Passing: Teena Marie


Teena Marie
March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010


Sunday, December 26, 2010

Happy Boxing Day!



Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and many other members of the Commonwealth of Nations on December 26, the day after Christmas Day.

Cheers!

- ferg