http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/jacob appelbaum http://io9.com/tag/jacob appelbaum Here's another piece of news that should make you feel nice and secure for the New Year - if you're on the starship Serenity, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Or hell, just stealing from anyone. Yesterday at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, a group of computer security researchers presented evidence that by linking together several hundred standard PlayStation3 machines, they could create evil websites that look exactly like the good websites you might be looking for (like, say, Bank of America). This may sound like a standard phishing scam, but it's a lot worse that that. These evil websites are such good imitations that they fool companies like VeriSign, a company that hands out online "certificates" that guarantee a site is what it claims to be. More »
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