If the first quarter was any indication, 2008 could be a record-setting year for security breaches, according to a new study.
In its first-quarter report, the Identity Theft Resource Center said it has already recorded 167 compromises, more than twice as many as the first quarter of 2007.
In fact, the 2008 total represents more than a [...]

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Asus informed the world, this evening, that the Eee PC 900 will hit the store shelves in the U.S. on May 12th. The Linux and Windows XP loaded version of this 8.9″ version of the Eee PC will both cost $549.

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If you’re regularly sent TinyURLs but have been burned one too many times by clicking through to an embarrassing link at the wrong time, head to TinyURL’s preview page and enable previews. This old but useful feature will set a cookie in your browser, and henceforth all TinyURLs you click on with direct you to [...]

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When my mom was battling cancer, she decided to seek additional input from a cancer center miles away. She went to her oncologist to collect her medical records, only to discover they were stored in several different places.
My mom was weak and sick from chemotherapy, yet she traipsed from hospital to hospital to collect medical [...]

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After all this talk about CAPTCHAs, let’s take look at the “blackhat” side of things and create an “Army of Captcha Typers,” that don’t even know they’re doing it.
People are finally starting to catch on to this technique. However I’m finding a lack of tact in how to accomplish it successfully. The objective is [...]

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Will Microsoft’s Asirra replace the CAPTCHA as we know it? After the other day, heaven knows where CAPTCHA experts will turn.
Remember Asirra isn’t technically a CAPTCHA. the “P” in CAPTCHA stands for public. The underlying generation algorithm and database must be publicly exposed to be a true CAPTCHA.
I don’t see how this system could work… [...]

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If you invited me to try and crack your password (you know the one that you use over and over for like every web page you visit) how many guesses would it take before I got it? Let’s see… here is my top 10 list. I can obtain most of this information much easier [...]

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In their ever continuing battle to free the Internet, The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.
The Pirate Bay [...]

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“When you visit a web page, you might expect that the code and images from the page will make their journey through the tubes unmolested and unaltered, but according to security researchers, you would also be wrong 1.3 percent of the time.
Researchers from the University of Washington and the International Computer Science Institute wanted to [...]

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“Few could argue that Asus created something special when it launched the Eee PC last year. The idea of making a truly mobile, yet very affordable mobile computer was welcomed by the Press and consumers in equal measure. Although the Eee PC 4G 701 that Andy reviewed back in October 2007 was a great machine, [...]

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Internet users are quite familiar with the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA), a quick method that verifies whether or not the user trying to sign up is a person or a bot. A picture with swirled, mangled, or otherwise distorted characters is displayed and the user then types [...]

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For the unknowing… phpmyadmin is a web-based mysql admin tool. The google query is structured to find installs of phpmyadmin that aren’t password protected. This gives anyone full access to read and modify the database. Also, if the pages were password-protected, Google’s spider wouldn’t have been able to get in to index them in [...]

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Theft was discovered by police, not hospital IT staff
APRIL 14, 2008 | A hospital admissions worker was arrested this weekend for allegedly stealing the personal information of some 50,000 patients out of a database and selling some of it to an identity theft ring.
Dwight McPherson, 38, a former worker at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical [...]

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Windows only: When you’re in a shady internet cafe in Bangkok and you’re worried about rogue software logging your passwords as you type them, you need a USB drive with Neo’s SafeKeys on it. Neo’s SafeKeys is a small, mouse-based keyboard that shows up on your screen in different places each time you run it [...]

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Regular expressions are archaic-looking, extremely specific, and amazingly helpful for finding the right data, files or whatever else you need. RegEx, a free online regular expression tester, lets you hone your expression language and terms down, giving you a box to put testing text in and highlighting the words that match your query. For users [...]

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