by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the great-firewall-of-america dept. The first shot was probably the release of Stuxnet sometime during or before 2009. Even though no one has officially claimed responsibility everyone knows who was behind it. Stuxnet hit with a bang and did a whole lot of damage...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the does-not-involve-hondas dept. Yesterday in a post at the White House website, the U.S. government announced that June 1-2 would be the National Day of Civic Hacking. ‘Civic Hacking Day is an opportunity for software developers, technologists, and...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix announced Super HD, an immersive theatrical video format that looks more lifelike than any Web stream, even competing with Blu-Ray discs. But there’s a costly catch. To watch the high-definition, 1080p movies when...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS
Information advantage has always equaled power. The group in society that can control what the other groups know and don’t know will rise to power in every other aspect. Therefore, information technology has always been policed and even militarized to some extent, by...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
NewScientist reports, ‘Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar.’ Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University seem to have developed a password cracking algorithm...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | NERD NEWS
In what appears to be a more-and-more common occurrence, Ahmed Al-Khabez has been expelled from Dawson College in Montreal after he discovered a flaw in the software that the college (and apparently all other colleges across Quebec) uses to track student information....
