Parenting and computer game obsessions don’t mix. News of unspeakably sad proof of this came from Jacksonville, where a mother has pleaded guilty to murdering her baby, who wouldn’t stop crying as she played Farmville.
Mom Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session – The Consumerist
By Ben Popken
The guy sitting next to you in the coffee shop might actually be logging into your Facebook account, using the info beaming out your computer. It’s called “session hijacking” or “sidejacking” and despite it being a well-known vulnerability, most websites aren’t protecting their users from it. After a developer recently unveiled a user-friendly bit of code that makes “sidejacking” as easy a few mouse clicks, the problem is getting fresh attention.
Your Facebook Login Can Get Jacked By A Monkey With A Mouse – The Consumerist
By Bobby Caina Calvan
bcalvan@sacbee.comPublished: Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
A squeeze, a flick, a touch – but keep those grimy, germ-infested hands off that iPhone. Who knows where those fingers have been?
By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News
The Bios in modern computers dates from the earliest IBM PCs
New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers.
The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initializes a machine so its operating system can get going.
BBC News – Change to ‘Bios’ will make for PCs that boot in seconds
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Security Experts Claim iPad Vulnerable To New Attacks
By Marc Perton on June 14, 2010 2:29 PM
Goatse Security, the white-hat hackers that exposed the iPad’s problems keeping email addresses under wraps, is back with a warning about additional risks to owners of the tablet. And they’re also more than a little peeved that AT&T called them “malicious” in yesterday’s apology to customers. “When we disclosed this, we did it as a service to our nation. We love America and the idea of the Russians or Chinese being able to subvert American infrastructure is a nightmare,” Goatse’s Escher Auernheimer said.
Security Experts Claim iPad Vulnerable To New Attacks – The Consumerist
Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-ipad-owners-exposed