In 1950, Alan Turing proposed a test to determine artificial intelligence: when an observer cannot distinguish a machine from a man (connected with a typewriter), this is artificial intelligence. Today, the day has come... (via fefe)
Dorrendorf, Gutterman and Pinkas have reverse engineered the random number generator code from Windows. According to their paper, it is easy (O(1)) to compute a previous random number and possible (O(2^23) to predict the next one. (via The Inquirer)
There's a new staff and a new release of the legendary phrack e-zine. (how could I miss this?)
a nice blog entry on php code quality and why their security team went on the run (via fefe)
boing boing reports that the brand new hddvd encryption key was leaked one weak after its rollout. grats.
It's a bad day when your decryption key gets posted every here and there :-)
"I've always wanted to change my legal name to ;DROP DATABASE; and see what kind of havoc ensues..."
The good, the bad, the ugly. Wireshark/Ethereal is probably the worst software ever written (besides IE). It counts 112 CVE entries and I finally give up hope that this software will ever improve. Why is it that hard to write a protocol analyzer?
Wohoo! They've rolled out cash machines with default passwords. DEFAULT PASSWORDS!!1! The linked site contains a complete coverage of this incident plus a CNN reporting on youtube. (via the inquirer)
I'm not sure how serious this thing is, but an application error should never disclose account data including passwords.
