First question: How tough are Thinkpad notebooks? Tough enough to be installed in buses and tram shuttles as seats and keep working just fine. Second question: Are the trackpads scrotumsensitive? I like to think they are.

The Honeynet Project has beefed up a free tool that helps spot attacks that can elude detection. The Picviz tool takes data from various log analysis sources and converts them into a multidimensional visual map of events.

A security bug in the latest version of the FreeBSD can be exploited to grant unprivileged users complete control over the operating system, a German researcher said Monday.

JB Hi-Fi's website was redirecting customers to malicious web pages over the weekend in a cyber attack that appears to have affected several other Australian websites in the lead-up to Christmas.

Authorities have arrested a British man and cautioned him for stealing accounts for online game Runescape, BBC News reported.

Hackers have developed a distributed Wordpress admin account cracking scheme that poses a severe risk for the security of blogs whose owners select insecure passwords.

The newly-created 24 U.S. Air Force is about to bring limited aspects of its cybersecurity command operations center online. InfoSecurity reports the unit, established in August, will be launching the San Antonio-based cybersecurity facility by the end of the year. The commander of the unit, Major General Richard Webber, said that the cybersecurity center was still working to understand the scope of cyberwarfare operations.

New tools capable of quickly finding, gathering and correlating information about individuals from social networking sites and other public sources are giving online scammers a powerful new weapon, say security researchers.

Microsoft today confirmed that it is looking into reports that November's security updates have triggered a black screen on some Windows users' PCs.

Насколько серьезную опасность может представлять собой инъекция в Web-приложении? Наверняка ты не раз слышал, о дефейсах, сливе инфы и прочей пакости. Что делать, если сервер надежно спрятан за DMZ? Можно сложить руки и довольствоваться малым, убедив себя, что админы молодцы и сделать больше ничего нельзя

IBM is set to buy database security firm Guardium for $225m.

The US Department of Justice announced today that a California man has pled guilty to trafficking counterfeit computer chips to the US military. Neil Fehaly agreed to cooperate with the government as part of his plea deal, and he faces up to five years in prison for passing off bogus versions of chips from Intel, VIA, STMicro, Analog Devices, and other chipmakers to the Navy. These counterfeits, some of which were outright fakes from China, and others of which were "remarked" versions of cheap chips that had been made to look like more expensive parts, have gone into countless critical military systems since the scam started, possibly endangering the lives of military personnel and civilians.

UK home secretary Alan Johnson has decided that Gary McKinnon should be sent to the US to face trial on hacking charges.

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.