Looter pwned

[Incognito]

Some muppet installing software he found on the internet and then using it for its intended purpose does not a hacker make.

Why do people make such complete and utter bollocks postings without doing a bit of research first.

Have a read of some of his previous postings

Greg Martin's blog - InfoSecurity 2.0: Matt Jonkman leaves Bleeding Edge Threats...

Greg Martin's blog - InfoSecurity 2.0: To jailbreak or not to jailbreak the iPhone 3G

Greg Martin's blog - InfoSecurity 2.0: Blackhat / Defcon 2008 Security Tool Round-up

Greg Martin's blog - InfoSecurity 2.0: Kaminsky DNS Cache Poisoning PoC Exploit in Metasploit SVN

It's quite clear he works in the 'industry'. Muppet.

[NickFitz]

Have a read of some of his previous postings

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It's quite clear he works in the 'industry'. Muppet.

WIS.

ok it's obvious he's not a hacker (macker more like)...

Yes, because the first thing the average Mac user does with their new MacBook is experiment with hash cracking using the GPU: Greg Martin's blog - InfoSecurity 2.0: New 13" Macbook Pro GPU Hash Cracking NTLM/MD5/SHA1

Although in fact that is a pretty typical use for a Mac these days - go to a tech conference these days and all those people that used to have a Dell running Linux have a MacBook Pro, often still running Linux, or more usually a few Linux VMs.

[2BIT]

WIS.



Yes, because the first thing the average Mac user does with their new MacBook is experiment with hash cracking using the GPU: Greg Martin's blog - InfoSecurity 2.0: New 13" Macbook Pro GPU Hash Cracking NTLM/MD5/SHA1

yep that's the first thing my mum tried to do when she got her iPhone

[Clippy]

It was, the looter just created another account.

Which was lucky as, by the sounds of it, if he hadn't and re-formatted/replaced the hard drive, he may never have been caught.

Note to self: Install prey on laptop and remove password protection.

[Pondlife]

Which was lucky as, by the sounds of it, if he hadn't and re-formatted/replaced the hard drive, he may never have been caught.

Note to self: Install prey on laptop and remove password protection.

My account has a psswd but the more limited guest acct doesn't.

[Incognito]

Note to self: Install prey on laptop

Insecure until bugs are fixed

shrp.me/docs - Don't Use Prey

...remove password protection.

No need

How To Create A New Administrator Account - Hack Mac

[NotAllThere]

Read some of the comments... talk about technically illiterate!

[MarillionFan]

Read some of the comments... talk about technically illiterate!

Bit harsh. Nick Fitz looked like he new what he was talking about.

[Sockpuppet]

Some muppet installing software he found on the internet and then using it for its intended purpose does not a hacker make.

ok it's obvious he's not a hacker (macker more like) but what justice anyway!! would love to be able to do something like that, I would have had some fun with his facebook/email contact list first though, I'd have logged in and told all his freinds/family that he was one of the looters, change is password and repeat for all other sites he belongs to, in fact I'd continue to mess with his accounts as an act of ongoing revenge....

The BBC news reported that he used to work for the FBI and Google so I assume he's more than your average home user.

Which was lucky as, by the sounds of it, if he hadn't and re-formatted/replaced the hard drive, he may never have been caught.

Note to self: Install prey on laptop and remove password protection.

HP Protect Tools is good for that. I have it on this laptop and its part of the bios/motherboard so you can't get rid of it even by changing the OS. It uses the hardware to call home and tell me where it is.

[2BIT]

The BBC news reported that he used to work for the FBI and Google so I assume he's more than your average home user.




HP Protect Tools is good for that. I have it on this laptop and its part of the bios/motherboard so you can't get rid of it even by changing the OS. It uses the hardware to call home and tell me where it is.

does the disk encryption slow your machine down at all?