Automation Adventures

Revision3, host of such video podcasts as Diggnation, Systm and TekZilla, suffered a Denial of Service attack over the Memorial Day weekend. The interesting twist in this is that Revision3 says MediaDefender was the one causing the DoS attack.
Why is this interesting? Because for years discussions have been going on about the moral and legal [...]

So, with all the dangers lurking out there, we all use https connections to our servers, have SSL sessions, use PGP keys to sign and encrypt our email, and run a plethora of scanners to keep our computers virus- and adware-free. But how about a keylogger that picks up your wireless keyboard transmissions?
This is not [...]

This morning when I got to the computer at work, it was a little sluggish. Not thinking anything of it, I decided to restart the machine - it’s running Vista 64-bit, and for some reason there are some problems with Microsoft’s Most Secure Windows Ever.
However, during the shutdown, I saw the message “Configuring Updates” come [...]