Yesterday, the Daily Mail carried this story about a hapless - and innocent - chap who was arrested by gunpoint after a member of the public mistook the MP3 player in his pocket for a gun.
The story unfolds like an episode of 24, with this poor chap being followed on CCTV cameras, which seem to […]

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A worker from Boeing has been fired, after their laptop was stolen. The laptop was holding data for nearly 400,000 retired Boeing workers, and included home address, home telephone number, social security and salary details (I’m guessing that person had something to do with the Boeing pension scheme….).
My first reaction to this story was, […]

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According to this article from the CBS news for San Jose, someone bombed the offices of Paypal on the night of Halloween.
It would be easy to joke about an Ebay transaction gone way, way wrong, but for the fact that some pretty heavy explosives were used to make the point:
“Whatever caused this (blast) was pretty […]

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IE7 has only been on release for a week, but Secunia are reporting another vulnerability along with a working proof-of-concept. This one is about spoofing the address bar in a pop-up window, and has the potential to be used in phishing attacks.
With IE7 having been available in Beta form for a long time, there will inevitably […]

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