If you're reading this blog, it's a pretty good bet that you're also a Facebook user. It appears that someone has somehow gotten a hold of Facebook's source code.

I don't know much about this sort of thing, but I am given to understand that Facebook seems to be nothing but a huge ass-piece of PHP code. Heaven only knows how these guys got hold ( Read more... )

You know the story: Dad has a gun. Dad leaves the gun in a place where Junior has easy access to it. Junior finds the gun, plays with it, and ends up killing himself or one of his buddies ( Read more... )

Public service announcement: If you’re running Microsoft Office versions more recent than 2000, Microsoft have issued a warning detailing a very nasty zero-day bug. Well-crafted .doc files will allow remote code execution--that is, bad dudes (as in, they TOOK President Ronnie!) can thus run whatever they want on your Windows box without your ( Read more... )

Here's one of my first posts about getting hit by the sobig worm back in the summer of 2003--in the middle of thesis-writing. Given that, it's not surprising that I was ready to go to Linux when I did.

Hot on the heels of the Sony DRM (that's Disastrous Rootkit Malware kiddies) fiasco, we have reports of a critical vulnerability in Apple's iTunes software ( Read more... )

Public Service Announcement:

If you have sensitive data, and must carry it on your person, please, please take proper steps to protect it.

It appears that Sony has begun including rootkits with their audio CDs as a part of DRM "protection ( Read more... )

Public Service Announcement:

/. reports that a particularly nasty worm has begun propagating itself through AIM. [Direct Link to source story from C|net]. The payload is a rootkit that bypasses security software and takes control of Windows PCs.

Users of Gaimshould be immune, as will any Linux, BSD, or OSX users.

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Today's Washington Post is carrying what might be the most amazing example of rental-car stupidity since the FIRST WTC bombing (when one of the conspirators demanded his money back for the truck that was destroyed in the blast ( Read more... )