According to an email apparently sent by Universal artist Colbie Caillat to her fans, artists signed to Universal Music Group or one of its subsidiaries may not post full versions of their songs on their MySpace pages.
Hey everyone…bad news. Due to circumstances beyond my control I have to swap the songs out on my [...]

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One of the reasons people go to Myspace.com is for business reasons. It may be odd for most people since myspace is something really personal. You go to myspace to express yourself and get a hold of your friends and sometimes you drop them a line or two just to make sure they are still [...]

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Windows and Linux command-line utility PWGen generates random, meaningless passwords but uses letter and number combinations that can be pronounced and memorized. Simply typing “pwgen” and hitting Enter will shoot back a screen full of passwords to choose from, helping to prevent shoulder-surfing sneaks, but you can easily hone down and customize the results with [...]

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German and Chinese researchers have just released a study that explores the world of Chinese commercial cybercrime. The researchers set up virtual PCs running Internet Explorer, then visited nearly 15,000 Chinese websites, deliberately infecting their virtual systems with whatever crapware happened to be running on the system. Then they carefully analyzed the infections as they [...]

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Here’s a brilliant rube goldberg security camera made out of a camera phone, some homebrew circuits and solenoid relays. When the phone is called, it activates the relays, which tap out the “take picture/send picture” sequence on the phone-keypad, which then takes the pic and sends it off. Added bonus: this thing actually looks sinister. [...]

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The vulnerability, called the Apple QuickTime RTSP Response Header Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability, was first disclosed on Nov. 23rd and still remains unpatched. The vulnerability can be exploited through Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari and effects both Windows and Mac users.
First observed on Saturday, the attacks appear to be aimed at Windows users, but [...]

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Hope this helps anyone out who is confused on where their politician stands.
Democrats
Hillary: Bring the troops home starting within 60 days of being elected.
Obama: Begin withdrawing our troops engaged in combat operations at a pace of one or two brigades every month, to be completed by the end of next year.
Edwards: Supports the immediate withdrawal [...]

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Upset teen, JedineKazama, explains to the world what hackers are all about:
(Please excuse the language and this is probably NSFW)

Link to Encyclopedia Dramatica entry

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On Monday, Sunbelt Software’s security blog revealed that thousands of malware redirects were showing up in search engine results. Network bots designed to post relevant keywords and spam links in various online forms (think forum posts or blog comments) helped attackers claim high-ranking search engine positions for various obscure and seemingly innocuous search terms. According [...]

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People probably don’t realize, just how often and in how many ways that total strangers are snooping in their lives. Whether the snooping means are video cameras, cell phones or through the Internet there are thousands of businesses, people and governments all up our personal business and lives.

Every time a person fills out a [...]

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Think that’s a silly question? Think again. A woman’s choice of operating system (OS) can reveal a lot to the inquisitive man. And with women as famously cryptic as they are, let’s face it: it’d be dumb to turn a blind eye to anything that offers a peek into their innermost thoughts. So let’s analyze [...]

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