A computer breach at the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has led to the theft of personal information on more than 45,000 employees and retirees, the agency confirmed this week. All told, the FAA said the hackers hijacked 48 files, two containing sensitive personal information that could expose the...

Last major collection of links. Alvis has a TAKS test tomorrow so we are going retro and watching some Azumanga Daioh anime DVD’s to melt our brain cells before heading off to an early bedtime. I’ll try to section it up a bit. Lots of neat finds and worthy candidates for your attention.  Do...

Alvis and Lavie are watching the Oscars tonight and I’m along for the ride. I wasn’t able to come even close to getting out some of the posting I wanted.  Nothing like a short weekend, a bit of weed-pulling in the yard, and the regular mix of loving on the girls to wear a weekend out. Coupl...

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday about one in the afternoon Google and Stopbadware.org put the web site I write at toolbox.com on the malware list, meaning they are basically cut off from the internet. While we can debate the relative merits of the Google Ban, the very real cost to Toolbox, and its sta...

Who wants $250,000?  I sure do!  Off the top of my head, I can name more things than I can count that I can do with that much money.  This amount - £172,000 – is actually well within your reach IF you know the person behind the Conficker worm.  This worm started circulating in October of 2008...

Network Security, IT, Software Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: When Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) announced a couple of weeks ago it had acquired Defensio, a Canadian spam filtering Web service, I realized the San Diego software developer had morphed into something bigger and more robust than I remembered. ̶...

Filed under: Computers So the notorious Conficker/Downadup/Kido has really caught the attention of Microsoft, and pissed off the maker of the target operating system, Windows. Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward to anyone who can provide information that leads to the arrest of those responsible ...

Alphadogg writes "The snapping point Conficker/Downadup worm is now viewed as such a meaning threat that it's inspired the formation of a posse to stop it, with Microsoft leading the charge by benefaction a $250,000 reward to bring the Conficker malware bad guys to justice. The money will be paid fo...

For the low, low price of $150, you too can Spam Twitter to your heart’s content. A new software tool called Tweet Tornado allows its users to create an unlimited number of Twitter accounts, and do a host of other micro-blogging niceties. As I personally discovered a few days back, one problem...

Gamasutra reports on data from sureness copyrights:cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group dos firm ESET, which shows a major upsurge in the number of gaming-related defense threats over the last year. They attribute the rise in attacks to the amount ...