The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. is in a bit of hot water after refusing to pay a $42.9 million jackpot:

According to the statement, Kusznirewicz was playing an OLG slot machine called Buccaneer at Georgian Downs in Innisfil, Ont., on Dec. 8 when it showed he had won $42.9 million.

When the machine’s winning lights and sounds were activated, an OLG floor attendant initially told Kusznirewicz to go to the “winners circle” to claim his prize, according to the statement. But other OLG employees immediately arrived and told him that the corporation would not be paying, because there had been …

I had a great time at the SOURCE Boston conference last week. Veracode was a sponsor and a few Veracoders participated as advisory members or volunteers. I had the pleasure, along with Chris Eng, of presiding over the application security track. I think all the talks were of high quality but still a few stood out for me:

Dino Dai Zovi on Mac OS Xploitation. Dino showed how to exploit a quicktime heap overflow. He got the built in iSight camera to take a picture of his victim and send it to him just …

A security bug was found in djbdns. Daniel Bernstein pays his promised security bug bounty for the first time. More details about the bug on BugTraq.

Date: 4 Mar 2009 01:34:21 -0000
From: D. J. Bernstein
To: dns@list.cr.yp.to
Subject: djbdns