27 days ago
nelson : UAL: not bankrupt - Trading debacle from a combination of an undated newspaper article and an overzealous stock tip feed
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1 month ago
nelson : Software bundling sleaze - You can pay Best Buy $30 to remove the crap that's preinstalled on your PC
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1 month ago
nelson : Shadow botnet bust - Or so it's rumoured; somewhat skeptical
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1 month ago
nelson : Keylogger in space - International Space Station is infected by a keylogger that steals Warcraft passwords
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4 month ago
nelson : Flash exploit - Adobe strikes again; WoW accounts stolen via bug in Flash. So can anything else on your computer, no doubt.
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5 month ago
nelson : Age of Conan fix - crippling "game does not launch" bug; official forums require login to read
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5 month ago
nelson : Debian/OpenSSL analysis - A very detailed examination of how the bug happened
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5 month ago
nelson : Xbox 360: 30% failure rate - My console died. Apparently that's not uncommon.
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5 month ago
nelson : Xbox towel trick - One recommended fix: deliberately overheat your console. No frickin way, thanks.
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nelson : Turn off MSIE click - The obscure path for turning off the stupid sound
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Andy Baio : Six botnets responsible for 85% of all spam - and 40% comes from a single source; good luck shutting it down, though [via]
nelson : Spam botnet sources - 6 botnets account for most of the Internet's spam
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7 month ago
nelson : Major browser exploit - I know two people whose WoW accounts were stolen recently; this javascript attack may be how
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nelson : Linux kernel root exploit - Ugly bug in the linux kernel
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9 month ago
nelson : Flash / UPnP exploit - Outside sites can force your router to forward ports. Very ugly.
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9 month ago
nelson : Shared hosting is a ghetto - Great post explaining why there's no point making Rails work well in shared environments
wearehugh : Shared Hosting is a Ghetto - "nobody but nerds (who don't pay for software anyway) install their own web applications anymore. People use hosted services."
Greg Storey : Shared hosting is ghetto. - That may be but it currently rules the school. Why does dedicated hosting still so expensive?
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9 month ago
Simon Willison : Do not treat Flickr photo IDs as integers - Do not treat Flickr photo IDs as integers. “The good news is, Flickr reached photo number 2147483647 yesterday. Go Flickr! The bad news is that number 2147483647 is the limit for signed integer data type.” [via]
nelson : 2 billion photos is bad - Flickr rolls over 2^31 and a bunch of software breaks
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10 month ago
nelson : Eve boot.ini postmortem - How a game developer destroyed the Windows install of thousands of customers
deusx : about the boot.ini issue - EVE Online | EVE Insider | Dev Blog - "From my previous work experiences in the antivirus industry and following CCP for quite some time now, I have come to appreciate the need for full disclosure when things don't go according to plan."
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10 month ago
nelson : Eve Online breaks Windows - The client upgrade overwrites boot.ini. Good show, folks.
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10 month ago
Andy Baio : Inside the "Ron Paul" Spam Botnet - doesn't explain who paid to send the spams, but a great glimpse into how spambots operate [via]
nelson : Tracing a spam botnet - Excellent detailed account of tracing Ron Paul spam back into botnets and email spam services
Rod Begbie : Inside the 'Ron Paul' Spam Botnet - Research - SecureWorks - Interesting insight into the control interface for a spam-blasting botnet. [via] #
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11 month ago
factoryjoe : Radiant Core: Blog: Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript - Deep write up about Facebook's Beacon from a technical perspective. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: beacon, facebook, f8, radiantcore
Simon Willison : Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript - Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript. How Facebook’s new Beacon service (also known as “Facebook ruined Christmas”) actually works.
deusx : Radiant Core: Blog: Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript - "This post is going to dig deep in Beacon and see what makes it tick from a purely technical perspective"
Andy Baio : Technical overview of how the Facebook Beacon works - this could have been fun and useful, if it was only opt-in on a site-by-site basis [via]
nelson : Facebook beacon - Detailed tech article on what it does
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11 month ago
nelson : Three botnets - Good overview of how these things operate
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11 month ago
nelson : Ron Paul spamnet - Someone's disguising the mail's origins
43folders : Researchers: Ron Paul campaign e-mails originating from spambots - via Nelson
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11 month ago
nelson : Russian Business Network - The ISP of choice for online criminals
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