DDoS attacks are not an unusual event for BitTorrent sites, with smaller sites suffering the effects more often than they’d like. However, to take out one of the big players requires some serious power, and that is exactly what Mininova is up against right now. Mininova co-founder Niek confirm...

An employee of search engine startup Mahalo has been sentenced to four years in prison for infecting as many as 250,000 computers with malicious botnet computer code. John Schiefer was sentenced Wednesday in federal court after previously pleading guilty to hacking, fraud, and wiretapping charges. H...

Time Warner Cable wants you to know that if you're one of their customers — the slow speeds you've been experiencing are the result of a denial of service attack by nefarious hacker-types. In an email to Consumerist, Jeff Simmermon, Director of Digital Communications for TWC, wrote that the IS...

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 11 minutes 24 seconds, 34.7 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives. In this episode, we talk about Koalas, training robots, a bunch o’Irish bastards, as well as some open source and Linux topics as well. ...

Posted by CmdrTaco (53% noise) View Skip nandemoari writes “A new variant of the Conficker/Downadup worm has been detected. The worm opens a backdoor on an infected machine and allows hackers remote control of infected PCs. Dubbed Conficker B++ (and not to be confused with Conficker B), the ne...

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:-  p2pnet’s surfer yesterday launched the second part of his P2P File sharing series and in it, among other things, he gets down to what to use and what to avoid like the plague. p2pnet reader Robert peppered surfer with questions and as surfer pointed out, R...

Filled in from laptop - Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:35 AM Been waiting at the doctors office for about 30 minutes now - longer time than usual to get shots. BHK is getting blood work done - I’m more peeved that she has to wait than me - she has been fasting since last night and probably has...

Filipina gamer-blogger-cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao’s Facebook account, with thousands of friends, was suddenly deleted today without notice or explanation. She just recovered her account from a hacker last week. When Robert Scoble and Lindsay Lohan were deleted from Facebook, they were at lea...

I have already decided leave this Chris Devonshire Ellis (a.k.a cde) alone after I briefly wrote this blog entry: Who is Chris Devonshire Ellis. As I said, I don't care who he is - good or bad - it is just completely not my business. He was brought to my attention just because the three pretty silly...

Random - Curmudgeon. Magenta. Fleur de lis. A few of my favorite words. Whatever. I never used to like Thursday mornings, seemed to me just an annoying obstacle between Hump Day and the weekend. Over the last months, Thursdays have taken on a Friday-like feel as I don’t work this job on Friday...