The newly-announced Square Enix Security Token will keep dirty hacker hands off your hard-earned gil via the magic of the constantly-changing login password. Much like the Blizzard Authenticator released for World of Warcraft last year, the Square Enix Security Token is an actual physical device tha...

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, the world's largest compendium of rewritten Google search results, claims he hired a computer hacker because he never bothered to Google him. Now his employee is headed to jail. In a mass email, Calacanis wrote that he and Mahalo's CTO, Mark Jeffrey, were ignorant...

March 4, 2009 Alida Antonia Cornelius Spambots are infecting website forums using vBulletin software, then sending pornographic spam and exe files which tell you that your PC needs testing for viruses. This week,... read more...

It's become clear after the Digital Britain session last week that the UK's TMT (Telcoms/Media/Tech) industry is being thought of as a potential replacement for the imploding financial sector - its of similar size, and you can kinda work out what the stuff does, especially the derivative stuff. This...

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...

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up - a police officer?  A movie director?  A professional wrestler?  A Nintendo game counselor?  At one point or another, all these occupations crossed through my juvenile, TV-saturated brain as suitable future employment.  During a bri...

A suggestion by NYT writer Tom Friedman that it is better to give bailout cash to sunrise rather than sunset industries and thus to Silicon Valley et al, was pooh poohed in Techmeme yesterday. The interesting question to me is why. Friedman: G.M. has become a giant wealth- destruction machine — po...

Beating someone over Xbox Live usually results in nothing more than a string of expletives, but some users are reporting that they're now getting kicked off the network by sore losers using a denial-of-service attack, which bombards your Internet connection with bogus data until it drops out. Worse ...

GRUB or the GRand Unified Bootloader is the bootloader commonly installed by Linux distributions on your hard disk. GRUB is responsible for showing you the menu that allows you to choose the operating system you want to boot into and also lets you tweak and control the booting options. Awesome power...

  Bristol Palin spoke out and admitted she was unprepared for motherhood.  What does the first female minister mean for Saudi Arabia? After weeks of media obsession, prosecutor's zeal, and ridiculous wastes of energy, Michael Phelps is not going to be charged with possession of anythin...