SANS has a report about an attack that for example caused the latest outage of the Austrian WKÖ website. The WKÖ website was carrying Chinese malware at least for one hour and they are titling “Hackerangriff erfolgreich abgewehrt”?
Do they know what the German word “abwehren” means? I don’t think so.

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My car (Ford Galaxy 3) has this unacceptable bell tone when you don’t fasten your seat belt immediately. It even rings when parking in or when driving slow. After looking for a solution I found the following algorithm (it’s no joke, it really works):

turn car key to position II,
turn on headlights,
fasten seat belt nine times [...]

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Adam Boileau demoed this 2006 and shows how you can bypass Windows login with some Python and Firewire: Hit by a Bus: physical Access Attacks with Firewire (PDF). Here is the Python source.

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Das “Call a Bike” System der Deutschen Bahn bietet in Berlin und anderen Städten Deutschlands Fahrräder zum Selbstausleihen. Eine ausgefuchste Technik erlaubt das Ausleihen mittels Mobiltelefon und ist laut Eigenwerbung der Bahn “nicht zu knacken”. Dass dem wohl nicht so ist lässt sich in der neueste Ausgabe der Datenschleuder nachlesen: “Hack a Bike” hat das [...]

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