Well I remember a reader messaging me saying no one will ever be able to hack a Mac as it is not possible, well sorry I sent that person a Instant Message a few minutes ago, and said sorry a Macbook has been hacked in under 60 seconds. A demonstration at a hacking conference should make all Mac users understand
If you work in a secure facility I bet you know personally of one weakness in the system just by working their. Like the door people sneak out for a smoke break yet leave something jammed into the door to keep it from locking on you yet keeping the sensors from showing the door open, or a host of other
I think it is great that colleges are giving up on old school land lines in favor of students having a school provided mobile phone. What I am not so excited about, is that some colleges are actually giving the college students phones to track their whereabouts so that they can be found in a emergency. As a parent, I
I have been running the Domain Name Service IP of OpenDNS most of the day today, and must say that I am seeing a remarkable difference in page loads. This will add a layer of protection for that person in your family that your spending time educating on Internet security, yet still have to work on their computer on a
I often ponder that exact question when I hit send. The majority of time I think the e-mail makes it but there have been times when e-mail just goes missing. Last night I sent out over a 100 invitations to podcasters I have been following online inviting them to to become content producers on the Podcaster News Network how many
This is simply an amazing story, I talked about Blue Security a few days ago, well the attacks on the company were shifted away from them when they pointed there main domain bluesecurity.com at their typepad site Seeing that the domain was under heavy denial of service attack then that caused TypePad.com and all of the SixApart websites to be
Somehow I think I will just ask for a set of keys with my next car. It seems thieves are stealing cars with laptops, all they need is 20 minutes and they're gone. [www.leftlanenews.com]
In a very interesting turn of events Spammers are not happy about getting a taste of there own medicine and have started an essential war between one company that is fighting back against spammers. [Wired]
I am sure that this will not last long but it appears that you can view PDF files that are protected with DRM via Gmail. I wonder how many previously secure documents are now going to be propagated through out the net. [akira.arts.kuleuven.ac.be]
This one is gonna blow your socks off, now we not only have to worry about software attacks, we now have to worry about hardware hacks that if exploited correctly and distributed to bring a large portion of the worlds computers to it's knee's. It will interesting to see what the Intel folks say. I guess it is time to
If your a IE user click tools Windows Update now and get the latest updates from Microsoft if you have not got them already. This 10 part update fixes a series of highly critical bugs. If you are the type that surfs to a lot of new websites every day you may already have a machine that has been compromised.