Now I know why he quit, pretty shady:

Online auction giant eBay is responding to the growing Internet fraud by calling in the nation's former cybersecurity czar.

posted by js at 13:11

Silly rabbit, defacement is for kiddies:

British authorities arrested a man Tuesday believed to head a group of hackers known as "Fluffi Bunni," which used a stuffed pink rabbit to mark attacks that humiliated some of the world's premier computer security organizations.

posted by js at 12:45

The NYTimes reports on a spin-off from Honeynets - Honeytokens. Little pieces of bogus info designed to entice crackers. Neat idea.

Honeytokens are pieces of seemingly enticing information that have no useful value. Embedded in ways so that no innocent person should accidentally stumble upon them, honeytokens trigger alarms when viewed, grabbed or downloaded. For example, a bank could insert a fake credit card number into its files and then set up a program called a "sniffer" on the network that would send out an alarm if anyone touched that particular number.

posted by mt at 08:49