The war against internet file sharing has crossed the line of what is acceptable more than once already. Those who take on the job on of policing the huge population of people who download music from the internet seem to think they are battling the ultimate evil. But even many artists and music companies [...]

For most of us, Facebook is an enjoyable way to interact with friends and family. That is why it is so surprising that an agency like the U.K. Ministry of Defense would face a serious breach of security coming from their own employee’s use of Facebook. Imagine the looks of embarrassment and fear for [...]

China recently accused the US of online warfare during Iran’s election. I’m not sure if they would have said something if they had been playing nice. The state department decided not to play nice. I thought that was the core mission for them. Their job was to be diplomatic and keep us out of [...]

Thanks to RockYou and some hacker yet to take credit for his generosity, anybody who was interested was able to download and study a list of 32 million passwords. I, for one, wasn’t too surprised with the findings.
Imperva, a security company, found that almost one percent of the users in this list used “123456” [...]

If you are hooked on Facebook, you are not alone. There is something ridiculously addictive about adding friends, poking people and playing games on this hugely successful social networking site. But there is trouble in Facebook land. Efforts by Facebook to, in theory, improve security for their users has stirred up a hornets nest of [...]