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First off, this is the article that almost didn't happen. If you don't want to hear this, just skip down to the "All That Aside" heading below, but I encourage you to first read through my little "aside" here first so you can understand what's happening in this article since it doesn't follow stan
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As I'm sure some readers noticed, we were temporarily offline for a few hours. Apparently, our recent article that spilled the beans on 4chan's Facebook account compromises pissed off the lovely folks at 4chan. The whole thing is actually kind of funny, and don't be surprised if it happens again
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So there's a Facebook screenshot floating around in the Blogosphere depicting a woman with a very embarrassing status, as Mashable naively reports. Truth is, a Christian dating website was compromised by 4chan hackers and they used the information to take over the victims' Facebook pages. Scre
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Think deleting your web history and cookies from within your web browser deletes all traces of where you've been and what you've been doing from the prying eyes of peers and advertisers? Think again. Adobe Flash has its own private storage within your computer which is inaccessible from any brow
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It isn't surprising that a bug in the Microsoft Internet Explorer ActiveX controller has caused the flawed browser to be exploited since early July of this year. What is surprising, however, is the careless bug that caused it - a bad type cast, A.K.A. a single misplaced ampersand ('&') character.
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So Twitter is down today along with Facebook, LiveJournal, and other miscellaneous social media outages/slowdowns. Is this the finally rise of Conficker, the "sleeping bear" virus? In a word, I have no idea nor do I have confirmed reports. But, you could always go check your Aunt's computer
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This is an experimental way to accomplish the implementation of a background app/daemon on an Apple iPhone. As of this writing, the iPhone SDK does not allow the development of "true" Unix-style background processes (daemons) within the iPhone OS (which itself is based on Darwin Unix). This metho
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Throughout the years, there have been several JavaScript/CSS/VBScript exploits in various browsers (and by "various", I mean mostly Internet Explorer) that allow a remote site to view a user's complete web history. There is a technique, however, for easily recording a user's browsing history wit
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As of a Facebook announcement on both the developer blog and the top of the site for all users, Facebook is getting support for actual usernames in addition to what should be your "real world" name on June 13, 2009. There are some upsides and downsides to this decision, and there are some things
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If you've ever used Adobe Air, you'll notice that on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows Vista/7 you will be prompted for a password (or UAC "continue/cancel" prompt) in order to install an application. If you've ever wondered why, here's both the technical answer and the "Adobe Answer" to this question.
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