The "Aurora" Attack That Got Google And Adobe

This is why you MUST get off IE6 and onto an up to date version, and KEEP it up to date, and run an up to date Antivirus.

I'm sorry, this is really technical, but it is important. 



YouTube video courtesy of Sophos Antivirus.

Gmail Now Secured By Default

Google has decided to make the SSL encrypted sessions in Gmail on by default now!
I talked about this little known option back in September. You no longer have to go into the settings to turn it on, it's on by default now. Yay Google!

Now if only Hotmail, and Yahoo mail would follow the lead.

[UPDATE: May 2010]
Hotmail has followed suit! now Yahoo where's your update???

Why Isn't Apple Giving Us A Patch? (Again!)

Why does Apple sit on bugs that have already been fixed by others for so long?
http://mobile.darkreading.com/9287/show/f4a5b8931d4d475c18ae22de0f497db3&t=dafc4b74d510e5f9ebf32b0d1a1a7475

Remember the Java one that hit the news back in May? At least you could get your Java elsewhere.