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‘Hacker Safe’ Site Hacked, Data Stolen
Geeks.com, a Web site that displays ScanAlert's Hacker Safe logo, has been hacked and sensitive customer information may have been stolen.According to a letter...
Hacker Launches XSS Worm Replication Contest
Looking to push the research envelope around malicious worm propagation, Web application security specialist Robert Hansen (left) is running a contest encouraging hackers to...
Untrusted Vista
Making predictions is always a tough racket, I know that I have more than my fair share of prognostications that, after a couple of...
Grab Your Goobles at Google
There is a somewhat interesting piece in the New York Times today that doesn't dwell on Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, Android, OpenSocial or the...
Boeing Dreamliner Could be Hacker Target
Boeing's new 787-8 Dreamliner airplane contains several "novel or unusual design features" that are exposed to in-flight hacking attacks, according to a caution from...
Tuning In to Microsoft Silverlight for Olympic Gold
Maybe it's just me, but when I read that Bill Gates had inked an exclusive deal with NBC to deliver live and on-demand Olympics...
Phishing at the Top Level
The use of domain names in most phishing is relatively crude, You see a lot of names like www.somefreewebsite.com/~ingrid/www.bankofamerica.com/.... There's no SSL, and the...
A Marriage of Convenience Broken: OLPC and Intel
Can I be honest? Intel was never really interested in partnering with the One Laptop Per Child project. The marriage of Intel and OLPC...
Technology Election Promises and Postures
Technology Election Promises and Postures
Promises, promises: They're easy to make when youve never had to vote on the issue.
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
John Edwards
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Rudy...
Showdowns to Watch in 08
There are lots of predictable matchups for 2008: Republicans versus Democrats, Linux versus Windows and every NFL team versus the New England Patriots. Some...