“If Samy Kamkar plays his cards right, he may be allowed to visit MySpace again in just a few months. For the time being, however, he’s not even allowed to touch a computer, following a January 2007 guilty plea for creating what many consider to be the first Web 2.0 worm: the Samy worm.
Samy’s worm [...]

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“What do around 16,000 Google employees stare at in the morning when they’ve arrived at the office? They might be looking at Moma, the name for the Google intranet. The meaning of the name of “Moma” is a mystery even to some of the employees working on it, we heard, but Moma’s mission is prominently [...]

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Excellent article/guide to using SSH tunnels to bypass using third pary VPN software. I agree with them on all points. SSH FTW.
In a recent Red Hat Magazine article, Paul Frields gave some examples of how SSH port forwarding can be used to remotely gain access to resources, or ports, from a remote location. This article [...]

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Attention Microsoft/Apple, this is why everyone loves Google.
Just released tonight: Even without GPS, it gets your location automatically via cell phone towers.
Working like a charm on my Treo. Is there anything Google can’t do?
See your location on the map, with or without GPS. Save time and tedious keystrokes finding where you are, what’s around [...]

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I’ve been searching for an iTunes Coverflow clone in flash, because one of my client asked me to use something like that for a new project. I finally found something decent… Take a look the following link: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/tutorial-displayshelf-component/

Now the above opensource product is built for flex2, so it doesn’t suit our project. Then I found [...]

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Tried to catch up on the Prison Break highlights and came across the Amex Only previews. Well since I don’t have an AMEX there’s only one choice. Google American Express support numbers.
Enter any one of these phone number numbers:
8004924920
8004928468
8005216121
8005253355
8005282122
8005284800
then enter anything longer than 5 letters in the name field and any expiration date to [...]

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Leading security researcher and co-creator of the Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) protocol discusses why you should use OTR to make sure your instant messages remain private. This is especially important given the NSA’s recent wiretapping activities and the increasing prominence of Big Brother.
Off-the-Record Messaging, commonly referred to as OTR, is a cryptographic protocol that provides strong [...]

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At 2:58pm, PST, on Wednesday, November 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving in the United States, a man traveling under the name Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727-051, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, flying from Portland International Airport (PDX) in Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington, with the threat of a bomb (he had a briefcase [...]

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I realize this is somewhat old news, but after sitting around Calculus class playing with my TI-84 Plus graphing calculator, I decided to look around to see what has been hacked onto these things. I thought for sure some tiny distro of linux has been ported to it. I stumbled upon an open-source project called [...]

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In an open letter to Internet service providers published earlier this week, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban calls for telecoms to put an end to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing. Cuban expresses concerns that P2P “freeloaders” are clogging the tubes with commercial content. His letter doesn’t focus on piracy, however, and instead primarily attacks companies that use P2P [...]

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A group of researchers has described Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as a “performance dud”.
Researchers from the EXO Performance Network claimed that a series of in-house benchmark tests showed that users hoping to receive a speed boost from the update will be disappointed.
“After extensive testing of Release To Manufacture and SP1-patched versions of [...]

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Apple finally released their new OS called Leopard about a month ago. One of the things I like the most with Apple, and probably everybody loves too, is that they always release tons of beautiful stuff. From the package box to the t-shirt. Yeah there is a very cool t-shirt as well. And now it’s [...]

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An old friend emailed me over the weekend and asked for some help reducing the size of a MP3 file so he could load it on his wireless phone. Seems he wanted the ringer to sound like a sheep when one certain person called (don’t ask), but the MP3 he found was too big for [...]

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XSS is Cross Site Scripting. If you don’t know how XSS (Cross Site Scripting) works, this page probably won’t help you. This page is for people who already understand the basics of XSS attacks but want a deep understanding of the nuances regarding filter evasion. This page will also not show you how to mitigate [...]

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