You may recall my previous article of two weeks ago, in which I described how my email account was busted by the Defcon Wall of Sheep. As the Internet grows more complex and more attackers are lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce on hapless sheep, Internet...
My daughter called me a few days ago with some interesting news. “Hey Dad,” she said, “have you checked out Google Street View, lately?” “Not lately,” I replied. I hadn’t seriously looked at that feature of Google Maps and Google Earth since sometime last year, when...
Last weekend saw me once again attending the annual Defcon computer security conference in Las Vegas. The conferences’ 8000 or so attendees, who came from all around the globe, were made up of the normal groups of hackers, crackers, feds and wannabes. As usual, almost...
Pornography is one of the biggest moneymaking businesses on the Internet. Studies show that 35% of all Internet downloads are pornographic in nature, with 266 new porn sites appearing on the Internet every day. Every second, at least 28,258 Internet users are viewing...
Well, OK, Windows Update didn’t exactly “kill the Internet,” but, beginning on Tuesday, July 28, 2008, it did kill access to the Internet for millions of Windows users worldwide. This isn’t the first time that Windows Update has done this sort...
