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The recent arrest of three Transportation Security Administration officers reveals critical safety vulnerabilities at America’s airports, experts told The Post. TSA officers Elizabeth Fuster, Labarrius Williams and Josue Gonzalez are facing felony charges of organized scheme to defraud following Thursday’s bust at Miami International Airport. Surveillance video from checkpoint E caught the trio conspiring to “distract passengers as they were being screened,” to steal cash from bags, according to arrest affidavits obtained by The Post. Fuster, 22, and Gonzalez, 20, confessed to “numerous thefts” from travelers, admitting to stealing an average of $1,000 daily while working together. Williams refused to...

As we all know, the 2020 presidential election was the most honest, above-board exercise of popular suffrage in the recorded history of mankind, and anyone who suggests otherwise is a racist, bigoted redneck yahoo who wants to install Donald Trump as dictator-for-life of this once-proud republic. That said, however, there has been a steady trickle of revelations suggesting that the 2020 election was not actually the pristine civics lesson that we have been forced to affirm it to have been (on pain of vilification and deplatforming). The latest is the belated release this week of the 2021 Halderman Report, which...

Adobe’s Flash plug-in has a big target painted on it. A recent leak shows there’s another Flash Player 0-day that allows attackers to compromise your computer, and that it’s been for sale for the last four years. Flash is going away, and everyone should uninstall it at some point in the future. Here’s how to get rid of Flash, whether you’re using a browser’s built-in plug-in or a system-wide plug-in on Windows, Mac OS X, Chrome OS, or Linux. Can You Live Without Flash? Flash is much less necessary than it’s ever been. Modern mobile platforms like Android and Apple’s...

Futurists have always yearned for the day when The Jetsons is reality, where every home is intelligent, and everyone can have Bill Gates-style home automation.  That future is being realized today, with the evolution from computers, to game consoles, to smartphones, and finally, our “stuff”, all connected to the cloud.  By “stuff” I mean appliances, controls, and systems that already have a purpose in the non-connected world.  Like toasters, ovens, refrigerators, garage door openers and doorbells.  It’s called the Internet of Things (IoT). These are the heady days of a new technology, where anyone can be an inventor, and thousands...

OpenOffice.org security 'insufficient' Researchers at French Ministry of Defense say vulnerabilities with open source office suite may rival those of Microsoft's version By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service August 11, 2006 With Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite now being targeted by hackers, researchers at the French Ministry of Defense say users of the OpenOffice.org software may be at even greater risk from computer viruses. "The general security of OpenOffice is insufficient," the researchers wrote in a paper entitled "In-depth analysis of the viral threats with OpenOffice.org documents." "This suite is up to now still vulnerable to many potential malware attacks," they...

Critical security holes found in Mac OS X By INQUIRER staff: Friday 21 April 2006, 16:35 SECUNIA SAID there are potential vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X operating system, first noticed by Tom Ferris. The firm described the holes as "highly critical", meaning that systems could be compromised if crooks dive in. Secunia said the potential holes are in version 10.4.6, but other versions might be affected too.

More than 422 new Internet security holes were found during the second quarter, according to data released Monday by the SANS Institute. This represents an increase of 10.8 percent compared with the number found in the first quarter, and a jump of 20 percent compared with the second quarter of last year, the institute said in its quarterly report. If companies and individuals don't take corrective action, the agency warned, their systems could be used by remote hackers for identity theft, industrial espionage, and distribution of spam and pornography. In order to be included on the quarterly list, the vulnerabilities...

We are being hit one blow after another and not only don’t we know how to defend ourselves we even don't know what is hitting us. The worst terrorist attack in Iraq took place in Feb. 28 by a man who loved America. Yes you read it right! Ra’ed Mansour al-Banna was born in Jordan in 1973 to a wealthy merchant family. He was a lawyer in his country. In 2001, sometime before 9/11, al-Banna moved to the United States , where he lived in California for nearly two years, moving from one unskilled job to another – factory worker,...

Kerry fumbled, Bush picked up the Ball! Nancy Salvato September 11, 2004 In light of John Kerry spouting off about how he would have handled the minutes after the Twin Tower attacks differently than President George Bush, I think its time to look at just how ineffective Kerry truly is when it comes to fighting terror. It’s too bad there wasn’t a 9/11 commission set up to investigate Kerry’s actions before the travesty of New York. I would contest that the wrong people have been investigated for failure to prevent the largest act of terror on our soil –to date!...

04 May 2004 Apple releases range of patches for known and unknown vulnerabilities. By Kieren McCarthy, Techworld Apple has released a range of patches for security holes - both old and new - for its Mac OS X operating system, which it advises users to download immediately. The company is downplaying the issue but one security company at least is concerned that the vulnerabilities could be extremely serious. Secunia has given the five - yes, five - patches a "highly critical" rating and warned that they may allow hijacking, security bypass, data manipulation, privilege escalation, denial of service and system...

NewsMax.com   Tuesday July 8, 2003 4:20 p.m. EDTGrad Student Gives Al Qaeda Bombing Map Working on a laptop, a George Mason University graduate student mapped every business and industrial sector in the U.S. economy, and the fiber-optic network that connects them. The Washington Post writes: "He can click on a bank in Manhattan and see who has communication lines running into it and where. He can zoom in on Baltimore and find the choke point for trucking warehouses. He can drill into a cable trench between Kansas and Colorado and determine how to create the most havoc with a...

<p>A UK WEB SITE has posted what it claims is an analysis of the Windows 32 API and claims that there are inherent flaws which Microsoft knows all about, which are unfixable, but which the software giant is refusing to address.</p> <p>The report follows Jim Allchin's statement under oath that some problems in Windows are so great that if the code were released, national security would be threatened.</p> <p>The web page claims to give details of exactly how to exploit this type of flaw, and the author gives an example of how to elevate privileges.</p>

Sun patches two Solaris holes SUN MICROSYSTEMS RELEASED a patch that closed two security holes in its Solaris operating system Tuesday. The holes could have allowed an attacker to take control of vulnerable systems. The vulnerabilities affect the snmpdx and mibiisa agents that are components of versions 2.6, 7 and 8 of the company's Solaris operating system, according to an alert from Sun, in Palo Alto, Calif. The two affected agents both run with root privileges, the highest level of access on systems, and are part of the OS's SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) capabilities. The capabilities allow for device...