via Dark Reading Run Windows? No antivirus software? Direct connection to the internet? Let’s add a new time frame for computing disaster to the list above, one that every security pro should know: 20 minutes… that’s how long your average unprotected PC running Windows XP will last once it’s connected to the Internet … before [...]
One might argue that information services (and clients) have followed an evolution not unlike that of competing organisms in the wild. At first it was enough to simply provide the most accurate and direct data possible, just as it was once sufficient for an organism to simply acquire nutrients and reproduce. When organisms began deriving [...]
If you’re in a custody battle, your ex’s lawyers would love to present you as the nonnurturing type. Delete all the crazy party photos. – Five Facebook No-Nos for Divorcing CouplesTIME 2009-09-28 The lawsuit alleges that not only did the teens in question create the profile with the plaintiff’s real name, but they also include [...]
A little note to the spammers – you guys seriously need to get organized… The first fifteen times I received this notice (alternately addressed to “jimmy”, “josie”, “pete”, “theresa”, et cetera) I did my best to ignore it, however, (and I’m sure you’ll agree if you see my inbox) sending fifteen copies of the same [...]
The correlation: Not so obvious. In fact, there may very well be no correlation between a slum (i.e. a hotspot for criminal activity) and a tarpit (where worms and malicious robot spiders go to die)… … but wouldn’t it be grand to see crack dealers and car thieves up to their necks in a sticky [...]
The intrigue of the grizzled anti-hero caricatured in film noir seems to have passed from the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, revolver-toting private investigator to the IRC-chatting, unwaveringly-unfashionable, laptop-toting computer geek. There will always be a place for drug-dealing junkies / kingpins and psychotic outbursts, but cybercrime is the insanely feasible get-rich-quick ticket to intrigue which can grant [...]
