Anyone who uses email regularly has had the experience of having your comments misinterpreted. Either you say something funny that the email recipient takes seriously or you say something serious that they think is a joke. Small wonder that the instant messaging crowd invented little signals like LOL to let you know that, "Oh [...]

It is strange to think of something like Facebook have a role to play in law enforcement. For most of us, Facebook is something fun and a way to connect with friends and family that we enjoy on a daily basis. But in a particular drunk driving case that came to trial in Buffalo, [...]

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 [...]

Too often, we blame the media for being part of a problem when they spill information that makes solving crimes harder to do. But when a serious case of information piracy was carried out against the popular UK gaming company Ladbrokes, it was the media in the form of the UK newspaper, the Daily [...]

I just read a news article at Mozilla mentioning an old but interesting concept for researchers. Mozilla is paying “cash” to anyone (except its employees) who is able to find bugs in its software or in software’s based on the Mozilla code if “the problem can be reproduced in the most recent version of [...]

Twitter recently took out their Adobe Flash widget due to a security issue
Per a ZDNet UK article posted Jan 25, 2010, “the company said it was not aware of any attacks that had been carried out using the vulnerability.”
This statement gives me pause.
Because it could be that
1) they don’t know what [...]

Judge Michael Davis recently reduced Thomas’ damages from $1.9 million dollars (decided June 09) to $54,000. I still think this is steep for 24 songs, some of which I would gladly pay you to play never again. If only I could get them out of my head.
I think somebody should take the songs downloaded [...]

While the name of George Hotz may not be the most famous criminal mastermind ever, that name is starting to strike terror into the hearts and minds of gaming, phone and computer manufacturers who really wish people would quit hacking their systems. It was Hotz who singlehandedly hatched the IPhone back in 2007 and [...]

Internet security has always been a big issue and the ability of hackers to have a field day with flaws in browser technology only makes the problem worse. At a recent Black Hat Conference, the emphasis was on computer and internet security and the best minds in the biz were there to demonstrate their prowess [...]

An internet security package that is sold commercially promises to block bad things from getting to your computer. But at the same time, a good security package lets good things through. It’s the online equivalent of a bouncer at the club door who makes sure everyone who enters is either on the guest list, [...]

It isn’t a big secret that China wants the internet to work their way. So when the biggest search engine in China, Baidu, got hammered by a hacker, all of a sudden they were outraged and wanted to play hardball. Baidu is to China what Google is to the rest of us. The tension [...]