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DARPA, creators of the Internet and other assorted crazy things is still up to its crazy games, but this time out in the Real World. The MIT AI Lab, in collaboration with DARPA, are doing research on…cyborg spy moths.
The ZDNet post points to this article on FoxNews (sourced on The Times), in which Rod [...]

With phishing becoming so commonplace in the last couple of years, all major browsers and anti-malware programs have added anti-phishing filters to their lineup…and the phishers seem to have found a way around at least some of those browsers and anti-malware programs.
The Register has an article called Strange spoofing technique evades anti-phishing filters which talks [...]

I found these three articles while catching up with my feed reader today, and all of them are worth reading.
The first one is important for all Microsoft users…Security Fix says that there’s a New Attack that Piggybacks on Microsoft’s Patch Service. That means that we finally got the final MS killer app..virus and trojans installed [...]

Bruce Schneier found an interesting article in U.S. News and World Report regrading the latest annual report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center about auction fraud and non-delivery of items bought being the most common internet crimes for 2006.
The report itself talks about it not being truly authoritative, due to the fact that many auction [...]

Well, in 2005, 24 federal agencies in the US got an average grade of D-minus in matters of security. A D-minus is a grade that my parents would have beaten me for, without a doubt lol! This past year, 2006, those same 24 federal agencies managed to get a C-minus, going up a whole grade…which [...]

Well, it seems like EOL time has come for the 1.5.x series of Firefox. The Mozilla team doesn’t seem to have advertised this very much, at least on their site, except for a small note in the “Other Systems & Languages” page, where you’ll see at the bottom:
Firefox 1.5:
This version of Firefox will be supported [...]

I know this one is a bit old, but being Sunday, I decided it was worth talking about anyway :)
So…BoingBoing found this article, in which the ars technica people talk about one of the largest online music stores in Europe, Musicload (owned by Deutsche Telekom), which has said that they don’t like DRM/C.R.A.P., and…why don’t [...]

Well, it seems like after the federal “justice” system left Patricia Dunn and her co-conspirators out of the jam they were in () with not even a slap on the wrist, FTC, the Congress and even Bush decided that they better pretend they care about pretexting, and have supported and signed an anti-pretexting law.
Why should [...]

Ok, I am absolutely pissed off. Yes, very very pissed off. It seems like what I thought back during the end of the MS monopoly trial is truer than even I thought it was…the US “justice” system is property of the corporate set.
Calif. court drops charges against Dunn
Yes, you read that right….the Wicked Witch (formerly) [...]

There’s not much that can be said about this…scariest thing ever: Windows for Warships.
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