Sexy Jihad

The BBC reports that some Israeli companies have been very very naughty:
Police in Israel say they have uncovered a huge industrial spying ring which used computer viruses to probe the systems of many major companies.
At least 15 Israeli firms have been implicated in the espionage plot, with 18 people arrested in Israel and two more […]

Bruce Schneier writes about a possible serious problem from an article posted at cnn.com:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Computer users already anxious about viruses and identity theft have new reason to worry: Hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your computer and then demand $200 over the Internet to get them back.
Security […]

Some guy has written on his top 20 peeves about modern video gaming. He makes some good points:
The Sony Playstation 3 is going to cost $465.00.
In the desolate economic climate of post-apocalyptic 2006, I’m thinking that’s going to be a lot of money. Now, it’s true that at E3 Sony was boasting the Playstation 3 […]

Tom’s hardware has written an interesting article on how data is recovered from a defective hard disk:
Over the years, hard disks have gotten a lot quieter and faster, with capacities of up to 400 GB. The downside is that their reliability is far from perfect, and the devices are often fraught with mechanical failures - […]

A nice tutorial to convert your phone to connect it to your PC can be found here. The guy found out how to do with by the scientific method of Trial & Error:
So, the problem. You have a computer, your friend has a computer, you both have a broadband connection, and you make use of […]

Some guy wrote a tutorial on how to make your own Audiphile level speaker cables with humble CAT5 networking cables:
This all started back in 1995 when I read a letter published in SpeakerBuilder extolling the virtues of using Cat5 network as high-end speaker cable. I bought a 1000 ft. spool and spent over 1 year […]

Just a small tidbit of news to note that BitTorrent no has an official search page, ala Towerseek.
Not earth shattering news, just handy to know

A nice little HOWTO has been written on how Amazon Images works. It shows how to generate whatever Amazon image you want with their image generating script:
Amazon.com feeds out a lot of product images, putting out the same book cover (say) in a variety of sizes and formats. By experimentation, I found that they don’t […]

Three dudes recollect on how they hacked Lexus Nexus in a Wired article (nothing too technical):
Three young hackers under investigation for unlawfully accessing personal information on thousands of people in a LexisNexis database have characterized their act as a cyberjoyride that got out of hand.
The hackers, ages 16, 19 and 20, spoke with Wired News […]

Tomshardware reports that Samsung has developed a new Flash-based harddrive:
San Jose (CA) - Samsung announced that it has developed the first solid state disk (SSD) based on NAND Flash memory technology. 1.8-inch 16 GByte SSD drives will ship in August of this year.
Using Flash for harddrives is an idea that has been around for a […]