Reports are pouring in now that Conficker, at last, has started doing its dirty work -- and that work is nothing which thousands of malware applications haven't done long before...
It's an old story, but here we go again: One caller into a CNN TV show sounded like a man on his very last legs as he explained how a trip to Mexico turned abruptly expensive. No,...
A common refrain when I post about Windows security vulnerabilities like Conficker is "Get a Mac!" thanks to their long history of being comparatively secure next to Windows PCs.
Reader JD writes: Can you tell me a little about cell phone radiation? When I receive texts on my cell phone, it makes a funny sound into my landline telephone receiver (when I am...
Remember the case of "Craigslist prankster" Jason Fortuny? Probably not, so I'll refresh your memory. In 2006 Fortuny thought it would be a hoot to pretend to be a hot woman...
What's the best way to disguise a phishing attempt so no one can tell where a request for personal information or a password really came from? Easy: Send it via text message.
In one of the biggest technology-oriented legal cases of the year (the entire trial was broadcast live on Swedish TV), the four men responsible for the operation of the notorious...
My previous blog post on the hidden costs of computing -- which pointed to a study that said that leaving computers on overnight wasted $2.8 billion of electricity a year -- was...
Consumers are reacting to price changes on iTunes, sending more expensive songs down the charts and giving a boost to tracks that stick with the old 99-cent pricing.
