Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Administration
A teenager faces felony charges and could spend decades in prison over allegations that he repeatedly broke into an acclaimed Orange County high school, hacked into computers to change his grades and stole tests — all in hopes of improving his college admissions prospects, authorities said Tuesday.
Omar Khan, 18, should be graduating with his Tesoro [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Administration
MySpace can collect $6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users.
An arbitrator has ruled that Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colo., must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in attorney’s fees for barraging MySpace members with [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Administration
When Mayor Nutter announced late last year that he was hiring D.C. Charles Ramsey as his police commissioner, I said I would keep an open mind but I was dismayed at his treatment of anti-war protesters and his frequent clashes there over civil rights. So far, I’ve been mostly impressed with Ramsey — murders have [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Administration
Wine has had its first non-beta stable release ever today. By complete coincidence today is the same day Firefox 3 came out.
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Administration
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An independent study shows that, in 2006, IE users were vulnerable to online threats 78% of the time. Firefox users? Only 2%.
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Administration
When it comes to security, maybe the end user isn’t always the problem.
That’s the conclusion of a study published today by technology reseller giant CDW Corp. The study notes some paradoxes between IT professionals’ views on their organizations’ security and their actual security status.
For example, when asked if their security systems were easy to use [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Administration
So you have been coding a new CMS for your site… making every effort to make sure any/all user inputted data is escaped properly, but you still would like to remain paranoid and scan for vulnerabilities. We don’t blame you. sqlmap has been around for awhile, but now there are other choices.
Take a look at [...]
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Posted on June 14th, 2008 by Administration
I recently had the need to embed a file in an executable. Since I’m working at the command line with gcc, et al and not with a fancy RAD tool that makes it all happen magically it wasn’t immediately obvious to me how to make this happen. A bit of searching on the net found [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by Administration
Gary McKinnon could become the first British hacker extradited to the U.S. for allegedly deleting data and accessing information on U.S. military and NASA computers.
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by Administration
One of the lawyers involved in defending cases bought against people by the RIAA claims that if the music industry wins a crucial case, the Internet will have to be switched off.
Speaking on the DefectiveByDesign anti-DRM campaign site, Ray Beckerman said the case of Electro vs. Barker has become very important for the web’s [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Administration
The Mozilla Developer News blog is reporting Firefox 3 will be released on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you’re invited to the party! From the website: ‘After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Administration
From our friends at Lifehacker… “The computer ate my term paper!” We’ve all been there at some point. You delete an important file, somehow it skips your Recycle Bin altogether, and for all practical purposes, it’s disappeared into the ether. But before you hit the big red panic button, there’s a very good chance that [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Administration
A hedonist would say: “Thank you sociologists for stereotyping my problems. thank you psychologists for classifying my problems, thank you biologists for rationalizing my problems, and thank you chemists for causing my problems. Also a quick shout out to physicists for coming up with new problems and Mathematicians for not having anything relevant to say [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Administration
SURPRISE, Ariz. — A 97-year-old Surprise woman who has voted in the past 19 presidential elections said she finds herself a casualty in the voter ID battle.
Shirley Preiss cannot register in Arizona for the November elections without proof of citizenship.
“I’m a legal American,” Preiss said. “I’m born here. Born and raised in America.”
The Arizona law [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Administration
Long live Firefox! I anxiously await the final release of FF3. Since using Firefox years ago, I’ve only used IE when forced to test a website in it. IE’s limitations and restrictions are irritating for web developers, such as myself. I will continue to encourage people to use Firefox and rally the fans to smash [...]
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