Security

The Net’s Deadliest Celebrities

Apparently Jessica Biel could kill your computer. According to McAfee's annual report on the riskiest celebs to search for, the…

15 years ago

Sears: Life. Well Cooked.

TMZ reported yesterday about a grill featured on Sears’ website under “Human Cooking  > Grills to Cook Babies and More…

15 years ago

Operation “Silence Cyxymu” Crushes Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal

Twitter went offline today due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack.  There were reports that other sites were impacted…

15 years ago

ATM scammers have mixed run of luck in Vegas

The Secret Service is investigating a string of ATMs in Las Vegas which are debiting accounts without dispensing cash. But…

15 years ago

Vanish: Self-Destructing Digital Data

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a new encryption system that allows users to take control over the…

15 years ago

Science Is Sexy: What Exactly Is HIV?

By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] HIV/AIDS is a worldwide pandemic disease, but I would wager that few people…

15 years ago

BitBlinder May Provide the Privacy Pirates Seek

By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] It seems that every time a new technology comes out, we hear about…

15 years ago

Chinese internet filter provokes domestic web protest

Chinese internet users are planning a one-day boycott of the web on July 1st to draw attention to the introduction…

15 years ago

Opera Unite — should be “Untie”?

By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] Well, paint me in a two-tone pattern of “smug” and “disappointed”.  I correctly…

15 years ago

Brute Force ATM Attack

The security gurus among you will probably assume that we're talking about cracking into an ATM via some kind of…

15 years ago