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  • Layer 1 attack shuts down Peter Gabriel website

    As reported by thereg Peter Gabriel's website was attacked this morning, this time at layer 1. From www.petergabriel.com "Real World, Peter Gabriel and WOMAD web services are currently off-line. Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night – Monday morning. We are working on restoring normal service as soon as possible.…

  • Good Worms Are a Bad Idea

    "Some bad ideas seem to live on forever. One of the big ones in computers is to use hacker tactics to perform white-hat operations on an Internet scale. The classic example of this is the "good worm" idea: a worm that spreads among computers to improve their security. There have been attempts at this in…