If you are running a Simple Machines Forum, there is a new hack making the rounds, and it is enough to turn your forum into something you no longer control. The hack first showed up May 01 2009, and has been gaining steam over the last couple of days. If you run the software, make [...]

Just finishing up the final touches on my first big cloud computing project, and there was much to learn here, some pitfalls and some promises in the cloud that might help you with your cloud computing project.

Bandit Defense has posted a new WordPress hack, but there are some things you need to know about first. The biggest one is that it relies on poor security at the hosting company, and already knowing the password to the WordPress website you want to hack.

Steve Hodson from Win Extra quite rightly asks what we can do in the face of restrictive or repressive internet social media. The good thing is that this is an easy question to answer, because humans have been working their way around authority since we began. Not everyone is a fan of authority, and the [...]

In what is becoming far too normal, the Dolphin Stadium Web Site was hacked for a few hours and was delivering malware to people who visited it.

Monster has been been hacked again, along with USAJobs.gov (which monster runs), this time with a loss of information for people who are seeking jobs. Be careful which job opportunities you respond to, and change your password.

You might be surprised by how mundane this list is, most security engineers should have them in their toolboxes as well. A few here are new to me, and worth sharing.

How do you tell a good security company from a bad one? That is the problem, do you really know you are getting the experts you are paying for.

Let us face it, I use P2P, and in many ways that people do not expect, I use it for Joost, I use it to down load software like open office, and Linux distro’s, I also use it to download hacker tools to test and research.