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Using Facebook to launch a Botnet army

Published Sat, Sep 6 2008 13:07 | William

Wired has a piece talking about how easy this would be to do. It's not entirely speculative since researchers built such a beast. I think the hype is a bit much though. The argument they make could be made for any mechanism that can get people to...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security, Privacy

Wordpress Vulnerability

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 15:22 | William

When I saw Bruce's post on using Google crack MD5 Hashes for you , I had to chuckle. Here's a link to the article Bruce is referencing. Once again, it shows a pretty good case of the damage that can happen by overlooking the seemingly obvious...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security