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Submission + - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat (tgdaily.com)

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not5150

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:51PM

not5150 writes: "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."

Comment You can get IDE/SATA drives FAILURE RATES Here (Score 5, Informative) 267

by Augur on Sunday February 18, 2007 @09:00AM (#18059050) Attached to: Google Releases Paper on Disk Reliability

One of largest retailers in Russia (and maybe in Europe - more than 300 terminals for orders in person at ex-factory building, busy 24/7) "Pro Sunrise" released information on failure rates of major components (CPU, Videocards, motherboards, IDE/SATA, etc) of PC they sold for Q1-Q2 of 2005.

http://pro.sunrise.ru/articletext.asp?reg=30&id=28 3 - the article (in russian, but diagrams are self-explanatory).

http://pro.sunrise.ru/docs/30/image001.gif - IDE/SATA (3.5" formfactor)

http://pro.sunrise.ru/docs/30/image002.gif - HDD (2.5" notebook formfactor)

In short, most returns are for Maxtor brand. Lowest - IBM/Hitachi.

Toshiba is worst in 2.5", and Seagate is best.

The chance to be blown are between 1/20 (Maxtor) to 1/70 (Hitachi).

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