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HITB/AMS report

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Heya!
We went to Hack In the Box/Amsterdam this year. First european HITB con in fact. The event was organized nicely. Gathered around 250 people, Quite a few hackerspaces ran their tables. “Original” lockpicking guys from toool.nl held a workshop which had quite a few impressive snippets.

Anyway, from our side we had two releases: From Russia with Love pt 2: an overview of underground whakin’ activies of eastern blocks. Securitybananas summarized the content pretty well.

Another thing is that we’re planning to publish a fresh version of xprobe tool. Upcoming features are reviewed in this presentation .

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EMC to acquire data analyzer Greenplum

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IDG News Service - EMC plans to acquire Greenplum for an undisclosed sum and form a new division around the privately held company’s data warehousing technology.

Greenplum sells software for analyzing large amounts of structured data, breaking up the information into multiple databases and working on each separately for quick results, according to co-founder and President Scott Yara. Its technology works across both computing and storage infrastructure to allow individual employees, instead of just IT departments, to ask questions and generate answers about an organization’s data.

EMC aims to integrate this kind of processing more tightly with its storage systems to further increase performance. All this can also be implemented increasingly across cloud-based and virtualized storage and computing, the companies said. The technology could also potentially be used in EMC’s backup and recovery business, based on its recent Data Domain acquisition, and

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Oracle set to launch new BI suite

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Computerworld - After three years in development, Oracle Corp.’s much-anticipated Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE) suite will be formally released at an event in London on Wednesday.

OBIEE 11g is being seen by many as one of the biggest updates that Oracle has made to its business intelligence (BI) platform for the past several years.

Oracle has revealed very little details on the product officially. In a blog post announcing its plans for the July 7 launch, the company touted the new BI suite as an “industry-leading” platform offering improved analytics, visualization, search, collaboration and system management capabilities.

It says OBIEE 11g will also offer an industry-leading innovation that lets companies tie its BI activities more closely to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Sparse details on the product have appeared elsewhere as well. In

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Communication breakdown: Security’s language problem

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CSO - It’s an old problem in the security industry — vendors, public-relations firms and the media coin all these catch phrases and buzz words to describe the latest threat or technological solution. Then the smarter industry voices get all uptight about it.

Does anyone remember the individual who coined the word “phishing” to describe one of the oldest social engineering tricks in the book? Me neither. (Speaking of social engineering tricks, check out Joan Goodchild’s latest article, DefCon contest to spotlight social engineering.)

I also don’t remember who came up with all the “PH” words that followed, like pharming and phlooding. But I AM among those who learned to roll his eyes at every “PH” word other than phishing (because that was an original).

I remember the day in 2005 when a PR person called me about a “new” threat the

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Database admin sentenced for hacking employer’s network

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IDG News Service - A former senior database administrator at a Houston electricity provider was sentenced today to a year in prison for hacking into his former employer’s computer network, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, of Houston, pleaded guilty on Nov. 16 to one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage. Kim had worked at Gexa Energy until February 2008, when he was fired as senior database administrator, the DOJ said.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Vanessa Gilmore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas ordered Kim to pay $100,000 in restitution to Gexa Energy.

On April 30, 2008, after he was fired, Kim used his home computer to connect to Gexa’s computer network and to a database containing information on about 150,000 Gexa customers, the DOJ said.

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