This is a look at the state of Linux through the eyes of Google Trends, Google’s highly useful search trend analyzer. Though looking at search statistics can never give a complete picture, this gives an interesting perspective to how things are going for Linux, especially when viewed through the eyes of such a dominant [...]
A nest of poisoned Web sites has been quietly attacking unsuspecting visitors using an arsenal of thirteen different exploits. If the site visitor has JavaScript enabled and is vulnerable to any of those exploits, then in no time at all their system will be compromised with a Trojan not yet recognized [sic] by many [...]
Linux laptop users suffering from Apple MacBook Air envy now have a chic, hot laptop to call their own: the Dell XPS 1330n with pre-installed Ubuntu 7.10. It is a good thing that Linux is becoming more mainstream but darn are any of you listening, there are other distros out there and just maybe [...]
The number of genuine Web sites compromised by hackers has increased and for the first time surpasses that of malicious Web sites purposefully created by cyber criminals, according to a report by Websense Security Labs. It’s getting ugly out there! Source: IT Business Canada Technorati Tags: Security
AP – A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. Okay I think this study was a waste of time, as who didn’t know that Bush [...]
The MPAA study that showed that students were responsible for 44 percent of film downloading? A big old lie. And now the MPAA has admitted it: In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by [...]
According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the number of “vishing” complaints received by the center is increasing at what it calls “an alarming rate.” Vishing and phishing are related, and both rely on e-mail as a means of delivering bait, but the two use different hooks in order to snag user data. [...]
Jeesh, I just get finished with that last post, then I find this! According to reports, Microsoft has developed plans — and possibly a working prototype, though no details around that have emerged — for a system that would allow user’s laptop or desktop computers, as well as their cell phones and PDAs, to monitor [...]
A private firm funded by Google Inc launched its Web-based DNA test in Europe on Tuesday, hoping to build on a successful start in the United States, where the $999 service went on sale in November. Subscribers to 23andMe mail a saliva sample and, four to six weeks later, get the results online, allowing them [...]
I was up real early as is normal for me, however after I had my coffee I decided to shovel the 8" of 40% off my driveway and darn it was chilly. Seems as of the temps have dropped over 30 degrees since I woke up and now the silly wind is blowing and you [...]