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This site was a real eye-opener:

Firewall Challenge
http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/

I was surprised by the number of firewalls that are lousy at blocking leaks. After seeing these test results, I switched to Online Armor Free.

XP SP3 Glitch a "Gotcha" For IE7 & 8
It's a fairly minor glitch for some users who install Windows XP SP3 over IE7 and IE8.

http://www.internetnews.com/software/ar ... IE7 8.htm

Microsoft says XP SP3 complete, available imminently The final SP3 code has been released to manufacturing and will be available via Automatic Update on April 29 http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/21/Microsoft-says-XP-SP3-complete-available-imminently_1.html Here's another article with some det...

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 is now available. The home page has been updated for this release. Here is the link for the release notes. There's only one item on the security update: crashes during JavaScript garbage collection.

No update for SeaMonkey yet, but that's in the works.

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/i-the-worst-bad-name-contest/ I live in China and in Chinese you get some terrible names: Yang Wei - Unable to Become Erect Yang Juan - Filthy Pig Sty Liu Jing Ye - Torrent of Sperm And those, especially Yang Wei, are super common. In China there are pr...

Microsoft EULA lands it with $175m Indian tax headache "The Product is licensed, not sold." Those six words just cost Microsoft's Indian operation $87.5m (350 crore) in tax payments and the same again in interest. Basing its ruling on the terms of Microsoft's own EULA (end-user license ag...

BT and Phorm secretly tracked 18,000 customers in 2006 BT secretly intercepted and profiled the web browsing of 18,000 of its broadband customers in 2006 using advertising technology provided by 121Media, the alleged spyware company that changed its name to Phorm last year. BT Retail ran the "...

After waiting over a year for Creative Labs to release working Vista drivers for their sound cards, Daniel_K took it upon himself to mod their drivers and make them work right. The "pointy-haired bosses" who run Creative got their panties all in a twist and shut him down, including deletin...

Looks like somebody wasn't spending enough time on system security:

Malware to blame in supermarket data breach
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9905991-7.html

An American computer security consultant on Friday admitted to using massive botnets to illegally install software on at least 250,000 machines and steal the online banking identities of Windows users by eavesdropping on them while they made financial transactions. John Kenneth Schiefer, 26, of Los ...

"We are offering free-of-charge support to anyone who is having issues installing Windows Vista SP1," Microsoft blogger Brandon Le Blanc said. Unlimited installation and compatibility support is available at no charge until March 18, 2009, according to the Microsoft Service Pack 1 support ...

Craigslist hoax victim gets some belongings back Jacksonville, Oregon -- Police say belongings removed from a Southern Oregon man's property have begun slowly reappearing at his home, a day after a pair of hoax ads on Craigslist cost Robert Salisbury much of what he owned. http://www.kgw.com/news-l...

Toyota Prius proves a gas guzzler in a race with the BMW 520d http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/used_car_reviews/article3552994.ece I wouldn't exactly call the Prius a "gas guzzler". Gasoline/electric hybrids are better suited to city traffic than to lots of open...

U.S. trade body to probe Sony on Blu-ray March 21, 2008 The U.S. International Trade Commission will launch an investigation into Sony and about 30 other companies on possible patent infringements related to Blu-ray disc players and other products. The commission said Thursday on its Web site that ...

Scoop: New video of BDI's Big Dog robot
http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/automato ... ig_do.html

Shining a light on hazards of fluorescent bulbs
Energy-efficient coils booming, but disposal of mercury poses problems

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23694819/

100,000 customers tell Microsoft to save XP InfoWorld Executive Editor Galen Gruman explains the real intent of InfoWorld's Save Windows XP campaign and the stakes involved for business and home users. Will Microsoft listen to 100,000 customers? http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/17/12NF-save-x...

Microsoft has already been talking about the successor to Vista: Vista successor "Vienna" planned for late 2009 No doubt the lukewarm reception of Vista has something to do with the relatively quick release date of its replacement (assuming that it ships on time :roll: ). The increase in V...

In that case, they'd get my credit and debit cards anyway. But I'd know that the theft happened and cancel them a.s.a.p., instead of finding out 3 months later (has Hannaford notified the affected customers or just made a general announcement?). Carrying cash has its risks, too, but the scope of the...

The benefits of paying with cash: it's anonymous and secure.

Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista has been officially released. Before you install it, read this: Things to know before you download Windows Vista SP1 Microsoft strongly recommends that you use Windows Update to download and install SP1. Among other things, the download size is much smaller (SP1 for ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHrKNib3F9U

The rocket-powered chair is hilarious!

Breach Exposes 4.2M Credit, Debit Cards A security breach at an East Coast supermarket chain exposed more than 4 million card numbers and led to 1,800 cases of fraud, the Hannaford Bros. grocery chain announced Monday. Hannaford said credit and debit card numbers were stolen during the card authori...

Has anybody been reading about what Phorm (former 121Media) is up to in the U.K.? Bad Phorm? U.K. ISPs to sell clickstream data to advertisers http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080309-bad-phorm-uk-isps-to-sell-clickstream-data-to-advertisers.html In a nutshell: since Phorm can't get people to i...

Notorious spammer pleads guilty to tax evasion and fraud Al Capone of junk mail heading for the big house http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/17/soloway_spammer_guilty_plea/ I like this comment that was posted about the article: "Let's hope they put him in with a bunch of prisoners who have b...

"Mebroot" proves to be a tough rootkit to crack
Nearly invisible to security software since it infects the master boot record and loads before anything else

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/ ... ack_1.html

6 botnets are responsible for 85% of all spam, according to an analysis by net security firm Marshal.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29 ... am_deluge/

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 is now available. The home page has been updated for this release. Here is the link for the release notes.

I'm glad that the high-def DVD format wars are over, but I'm not so thrilled about Blu-ray winning the fight. Sony isn't exactly known for their consumer-friendly attitude. I expect to see a lot more copy-protection b.s. on the video discs. And let's not forgot all the patents and royalties on Blu-r...