Hacking Mifare Transport Cards : notable mainly because Schneier calls MIFARE Classic’s crypto ‘terrible’ and ‘kindergarten cryptography’. ‘Anyone with any security experience would be embarrassed to put his name to the design.’ ZING
(tags: ouch mifare cracks security zing crypto-cards smartcards oyster nxp)some good AWS tips : e.g. “upload files to S3 in lexically-sorted order”, apparently it’s faster. who knew!? (Sorry Joshua, gave you a bad tip y’day in that case)
(tags: amazon aws s3 sqs sdb web-services hosting for:joshua)The Coreflood Report : fascinating Joe Stewart post-mortem of a server run by a Russian malware group targeting online banking; one apparent Miami-based victim was defrauded of $90k, and it appears that the group would have had access to a combined $2.5m in all victims’ accounts
(tags: coreflood trojans joe-stewart secureworks malware banking online-banking autoproxy joe-lopez)using “data=writeback” on your Ubuntu filesystems : aha! This is the root cause of the crippling Firefox 3/VIM slowness; Ubuntu and Debian use a crappy ext3 option which sacrifices speed for correctness, by effectively turning every fsync() into a sync(). Here’s how to disable it
(tags: fsync sync unix linux ext3 ubuntu debian firefox vim grub annoying sysadmin)