The idea of falling snow being flavored is an abomination on nature, and in return, one of the best idea I have ever heard of! Will it really ever happen, probably not, but we can all hope that science will eventually get this out. The Cloud Project is a tricky little concept that would spray [...]
Even as a Mac user myself, I find myself thinking there is no need to worry about viruses and malware. Being in the security industry I know it is an absolutely ludicrous thought, but the chances are low enough that I I just push the idea to the side. Most people would say that the [...]
This is just too funny, I am just going to post the Slashdot story since someone went through all the work of having several stories. “Apparently the police like to spend their time trawling our private information on Facebook looking for criminals. ‘Riot police stormed a man’s 30th birthday barbecue for 15 guests because it [...]
Some numbers are being thrown out showing a decrease in sales of video games. First off let me point out this a month over month matrix, which is pretty ridicules way to measure sales, but we are going to assume there is still a decrease. Best summed up by alphadog: The recession appears to have [...]
The Register has a pretty good article on an exploit using the NULL pointer. They were even nice enough to include the code. Here is a pretty good summary: The vulnerability is located in several parts of Linux, including one that implements functions known as net/tun. Although the code correctly checks to make sure the [...]
You can find all kinds of interesting things on the internet. This one is pretty entertaining and helpful for all those single guys out there. Straight from the Wired Wiki: The Dab Surreptitiously dab a thin layer of lip balm on the tip of a ballpoint pen. The Approach Approach your target and tout your [...]
I can’t believe I didn’t even notice this when it first came out. Credit goes over to SecurityFocus for being the first to alert us on the major upgrade to Nmap. Security researcher Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon announced the release of the latest version of the popular network-exploration and security-auditing tool, Nmap, on Thursday, improving performance [...]
Java has always been the problem child in the family of web browsing. Tons of exploits, and lets not even get into performance issues. Java continues its nuisance in FireFox. Mozillanow has some egg on their face as their two week old Firefox 3.5 has been identified with a remote execute exploit. Mozilla is warning [...]