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Published: March 28, 2011, 1:35 p.m.

In this episode, we discuss a wide range of topics, including:\xa0

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- The Jesters denial of service attack on the Westboro Baptist Church website.

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- How one might prevent such attacks

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- The seizure of domain names by the Department of Homeland Security

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- The treatment of Bradley Manning

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- Google and bugs in Flash

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- A 16-year old girl that may have hacked HBGary\xa0

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- Skype and encryption data leaks

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and, finally

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- How the events in Japan may effect iPad2 availability.

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Layer 7 Denial of Service attacks:

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th3j35t3r's assault on Westboro Baptist Church Website Continues

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https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/12400-Assault-on-Westboro-Baptist-Church-Website-Continues.html

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Live Performance Report for Westboro Church Website: four sites held down 24 days from a single 3G cellphone:\xa0

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http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?site=www.godhatesfags.com

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Defense techniques:

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Protecting a Web server with a Load-Balancer\xa0

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http://samsclass.info/124/proj11/proj15-haproxy.html

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Protecting a Web server with mod_security (a Web Application Firewall)

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http://samsclass.info/124/proj11/p16-mod-security.html

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Protecting a Web server with iptables (a firewall)

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http://samsclass.info/124/proj11/p5x-iptables-layer7.html

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Westboro Spoof for a Good Purpose

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http://www.godhatesjapan.com/

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DHS siezure of domain names:

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Web seizures trample due process\xa0

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/ars-interviews-rep-zoe-lofgren.ars

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Bradey Manning's Continuing Abuse in Captivity

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Ellsberg on Obama\u2019s View that Manning\u2019s Treatment is \u201cAppropriate\u201d

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http://www.ellsberg.net/archive/ellsberg-obama-manning

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WH forces P.J. Crowley to resign for condemning abuse of Manning

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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/13/crowley

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Google and Flash Bugs

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Google first to patch Flash bug with Chrome update

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214689/Google_first_to_patch_Flash_bug_with_Chrome_update

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"Anonymous" Hacker Speaks

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Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary? \xa016 years old, and in hiding for a felony

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http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/03/16/is-this-the-girl-that-hacked-hbgary/

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Skype Encryption Leaks Data

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Uncovering spoken phrases in encrypted VoIP conversations

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http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/oakland08.pdf

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Shortages of Apple's iPad and iPhone to bleed into June quarter -- caused by Japan's disasters

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http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40531&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0