Security
Nerd News Today; 4/13
Friday, April 13th, 2007Most AV programs can’t find Storm. PC World just did a quick test to see how bad the Storm Worm impact is. Turns out most AV programs don’t find it. Test included 31 different virus programs of which only Clam, Kapersky, and Symantec reported the little bastard. Back to Clam AV for me on XP […]
Nerd News Today; 4/11
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Halo 3 coming soon. Microsoft’s announced the date: May 16. Coming for the xBox 360 first and then us poor PC players can start looking for it later this year. (Source: GamePro)
Young scientists at NASA open-sourcing space program. This is kinda cool. Seems there’s a small clique of scientists looking to get the public involved […]
The Myth of Apple’s Insecurities
Monday, April 9th, 2007In case you missed it, there’s a virus for the iPod. Yep, that’s right, your MP3 player is a veritable hotbed of virus activity — but only if you’re running the iPod Linux distribution, and only if you take great pains to make the virus function, since it doesn’t really work. We can argue about […]
Nerd News Today; 4/6
Friday, April 6th, 2007IRS has ‘tracking tech’ on its notebooks. Maybe. Love it when they try and manipulate the press. Some budding journalist spills a story a day or so ago showing that the IRS has lost about 500 notebooks to loss or theft over the last 3.5 years. So today, there are stories based on hurriedly-produced IRS […]
Oops. WordPress got 0wned.
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007I neglected to cvsup the server NOTN runs on before installing WordPress yesterday when I built this blog. Thus, this blog is running on 2.1, not 2.1.1. It looks like that was a good move. At least they caught it quickly, but 10 days of backdoored downloads stings a bit.
I just cvsup’d the server, and […]