Welcome to the world of botnets

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""Eric Sites stares at the screen of a "dirty box," a Windows machine infected with the self-replicating Wootbot network worm. Within seconds, there is a significant spike in CPU usage as the infected computer starts scanning the network, looking for vulnerable hosts. Basically, this machine is now owned by a criminal.""

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The science of making skyscrapers safe.

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"To the discerning eye, cities and skyscrapers are monuments to the security threats prominent at the time they're built. With new technologies, shortsighted design decisions will leave a legacy of needless challenges for future generations."

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Zombie Computers Try To Blend In With The Crowd

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"Hackers are trying harder to make their networks of hijacked computers go unnoticed."

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New (Potentially Funny) Firefox Bug Found

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"While not exactly a major bug, this bug allows any website owner to style the autoscroll image that pops up when one middle clicks in Firefox. Someone of a less benevolent nature could use this bug for evil. *COUGH* GOATSE *COUGH*"

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pfSense 1.0 Released today at 13:13 EST

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"pfSense, the FreeBSD-based firewall LiveCD distribution was released today. Utilizing pf as the firewall basis, this distribution has been 2 years in development and offers firewalling, traffic shaping, clustering, load balancing and a very solid packaging system all managed by a WebGUI."

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USB Hacksaw released, Steal documents in seconds with a U3 usb key!

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"The USB Hacksaw is an evolution of the popular USB Switchblade that will automatically infect Windows PCs with a payload that will retrieve documents from USB drives plugged into the target machine and securely transmit them to an email account.PoC shows how to deliver the payload instantly with a U3 autorun hack borrowed from the Switchblade"

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Set up a personal, home SSH server

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"It's simple to set up an SSH server right on your Windows PC with Cygwin (and even simpler on your Mac). Once your personal SSH server is up and running, you can connect to your home computer securely from anywhere on the internet, up and download files and perform all the command line tasks your heart desires. Here's how."

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