Facebook Connect::ing You Everywhere

"Facebook Connect::ing You Everywhere December 6th, 2008 Goto comments Leave a comment By Ed Penano One simple system. One simple login. That is the aim of Facebook’s freshest creation - Facebook Connect. Facebook...

Reporters booted from conference for hacking

"With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public WiFi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.But in a case of reporters spying on other reporters, three journalists working for the French...

Gmail password hijacking

"Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror outlines how a software used for backing gmail was use to collect gmail login details. I was looking for a way to back up my gmail account to a local drive. I’ve accumulated a mass of important information that I would rather not lose. During...

How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques

"We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine; a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight...

Mandylion Password Manager

"Military-grade password protection! Unfortunately, we all have to deal with modern life’s little cyber-burden, the password. Some of us do so by simply re-using an old password when the system asks you to change it. Other times we use the same password but just add the...

Problems with Skype login

"ome of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as the issue is resolved, you...

Warning of webmail wi-fi hijack

"The potential for attack is pretty severe."Heard at the Vegas Black Hat conference"Demonstrated at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, the tools make it far easier to steal account details, said Robert Graham of Errata Security. Identifying files called cookies are...

52 Ways to Speed Up OS X- 70,000 hits on this Post!

Blogger 'ImAFish' got 70,000 hits on this article after being 'dugg!'"52 Ways to Speed Up OS X After Apple recently announced a delay to OS X 10.5 Leopard I had to delay my iMac upgrade until the Autumn. This led me to thinking about how to speed up Tiger to get the most out...

52 Ways to Speed Up OS X- 70,000 hits on this Post!

Blogger 'ImAFish' got 70,000 hits on this article after being 'dugg!'"52 Ways to Speed Up OS X After Apple recently announced a delay to OS X 10.5 Leopard I had to delay my iMac upgrade until the Autumn. This led me to thinking about how to speed up Tiger to get the most out...

The Trojan Thumb-Drive

"Malware purveyors deliberately left USB sticks loaded with a Trojan in a London car park in a bid to trick users into getting infected. The attack was designed to propagate Trojan banking software that swiped...

Flickr: Viva La Revolucion

I always enjoy reading Suw Charman's blog, and today she has a really great piece on the battle brewing inside Flickr between long time members and the new Yahoo higher-ups.  I can remember when the...

Killers' 2007 Spring U.S. tour

''Some of the best bands are appearing on tour in the United States at this moment. I hope we see this Great band, who write melodic music, touring the UK soon. Best of luck on your States tour'' liamssoft On Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 10:00 AM (local venue time) members...

Reverse Microformat-ing at BarCamp San Francisco

"I just landed in San Francisco and took the BART directly to BarCamp San Francisco. I grabbed some coffee, some beer, and some North Beach pizza from the common areas, and then landed straight in an intense...

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