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I found this post on Lifehacker via Kurt Wismer , someone whose comments I've kept an eye on for since I started reading the alt.comp.virus newsgroup, which is quite a time ago now. Kurt seems to have the habit of annoying people by simply speaking...
I have to admit that some areas of the computer industry make me asahmed to be part of the IT profession at times. Take gaming - 1up.com's article on 5 botched game launches talks about Steam ... Yes, yes, we all love Steam now. By which we mean "It...
Ah the death of Netscape. I remember it well and I guess I'll miss it, a large part of computer history and my own too I guess, so goodbye and thankyou Netscape Navigator. Just finished reading this blog post on wired that reports that Netscape Navigator...
As if they didn't already have a bit of a reputation in some parts, it seems the people behind MacHeist have really decided to sink as low as they can this year. If you're involved with MacHeist in any way, I'd like to take a moment to thank...
But I'm too busy laughing to stop and point it out .
Yet another in the "I get asked this a lot and so finally I decided to write an article" series. This question keeps being asked repeatedly by the victims of hackers breaking into their web server. The answers very rarely change, but people...
This is another question I see get asked a lot around the place, so I'm posting my latest answer to this question here. Can someone tell me, if I download a zipped file which contains a virus and open this file then would my system would most likely become...
Still following the Safari hack and the fallout from it on Matasano. There are a lot of comments debating how serious it is anyway, because after all it isn't like you got root. A lot of comments all around about how much information is exposed. Folks...
UPDATE 21/04/07 19.33GMT. The Matasano website has been amended to add the following: Apparently the issue also affects Firefox. Turn off Java as a workaround for now. Breaking news as of yesterday. The CanSecWest security conference are running an event...
Is the point passing just over the heads of the WGA team bloggers at Microsoft. In a post last month they talk about the fuss surrounding WGA getting caught sending information back to Microsoft whether or not the user agreed to this (by accepting the...
Another contribution from Captain Obvious - I know Robert doesn't like the Windows Vista much but the Captain just felt this example of user foolishness was too good to pass up... There is a serious bug found in Windows Vista Ultimate, which allow the...
Ok, maybe this was funnier. But still... Explain to me again how people fall for junk like this? HEINEKEN BOTTLING BEER COMPANY . {blanking this bit}, {funny, the address is at Stamford Beach},LONDON, {postcode}. UNITED KINGDOM. "Heineken Light" Promotion...
And now a few words from my occasional co-writer, captain obvious. " Home computer users who leave default passwords on network hardware unchanged could be at risk from attack say security experts." - the BBC, reporting on a Symantec / University of Indiana...
A whole "Month of Apple Bugs" planned here. Interesting. Be sure to read their FAQ before making assumptions about the motives of the people doing it. They've actually started off with a couple of media player bugs, one Apple Quicktime and...
This has got to be a mistake. (Why do I seem to say that a lot recently when reviewing an action taken by Microsoft?) The Windows Vista team blog posted a note about the terms of the licence for Windows Vista the other day, and it contains one or two...
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