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USB flash drive that steals passwords in seconds

Posted by Alex on September 5th, 2006

The latest episode of Hak5 has a segment where they show a USB key that takes advantage of U3 technology and weaknesses in Windows autorun and LAN Manager features. Essentially this USB key steals password hashes, LSA secrets, and creates back doors within seconds on insertion. The show notes are pretty detailed.
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Things to Do in Customer-Service Hell

Posted by Alex on September 5th, 2006

many companies “phone trees” - the automated menus that ask you to mash one button after the next are silly mazes that have you chasing your tail. First there was GetHuman. Now there’s a new website, still in beta, called Bringo! (a.k.a. NoPhoneTrees.com), which takes a different approach.
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