Sexy Jihad

Another unicode based exploit. Because you can now use unicode in URLs it’s quite easy to spoof them. Example:
http://www.paypal.com is the actual site and http://www.pаypal.com/ is the spoof URL.
The spoof URL is actually http://www.p&amp#1072;ypal.com, which of course is the unicode character а, which looks exactly like an a. You don’t need to be a […]

Well, what we all saw coming is becoming reality. Now the BBC has an article about people who have gaming……Isues….. Excerpt:
“I can’t talk to him while he is playing. There is absolutely no point as he doesn’t hear me or is so distracted that I get a ‘ummm… ya’ a few minutes after I ask […]

The BBC reports that the newest (and youngest) memeber of MENSA is three year old Mikhail Ali. Excerpt:
Mikhail undertook a series of tests involving maths, picture and logic puzzles and number sequences.
Mrs Ali added: “Every day he amazes us, but underneath it all he’s still our little boy too.
“He still plays with his toys and […]

Looks like Mozilla has released the roadmap for Thunderbird 2.0. An excerpt:

1.1 Goals

Inline spell checking (spell as you type)
Improved spell check engine. Update our version of myspell to the current version used by Open Office.org
Deleting attachments from e-mail
Auto Save As Draft
Phishing Detector: Thunderbird will attempt to detect email scams, warning users before they visit possible […]

It is time. Bruce Schneier reports that SHA-1 has been broken. He writes:
SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing.
The research team of Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu (mostly from Shandong University in China) have been quietly circulating a paper announcing their results.
This really is […]