Today I submitted supplemental written testimony, adding to my previous testimony from last week’s e-voting hearing before the House Administration Committee, Subcommittee on Elections. Today’s supplemental testimony is short, so I’ll just include it here. (The formatted version is available too.) Thank you for the opportunity to ...

by Larry Magid Unlike some of my fellow Internet safety activists, I think that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers did the right thing by rejecting the proposed .XXX top level domain designation. See Story For the record, in addition to my work as technology commentator, I run SafeKids.com and ...

UK financial advisers, Grant Thornton, says that organizations that fail to lock-down bluetooth connections on company-owned laptops and other portable devices are taking a huge data theft gamble. The company says the number of bluesnarfing attacks - where a connection between two devices is forced without the consent ...

I'm home for the next couple days, but no rest for the weary.  I had to get this off of my plate first, but I've still got another podcast to edit and a few video blog entries.  This stuff all takes time.Today's is a short podcast, the majority ...

One of the vendors at Shmoocon got some unwanted attention this weekend.  The had a nice string of USB light up hubs strung along the front of their table.  Since the hubs needed to be powered to light up, they plugged it into one of the vendor laptops on the ...

Since ModSecurity is based on regular expressions, a lot of rule creation requires developing and testing regular expressions. Therefore I looked for a tool that can be used to test regular expressions for validity and accuracy before using the regular expression in a ModSecurity rule. I found two free tools that let you do ...

By popular demand, more of the friends and colleagues you know and love. How many can you recognise? Is your favourite colleague here? Wallace & Gromit Rottweiler Donkey Bitch Cow Read more at Vicki Scholtz

TrendLabs has received reports of a new worm, which targets Arabic/Persian-speaking regions, spreading in the wild. Detected as WORM_WALLA.B, this worm spreads copies of itself as an attachment to email messages with subject lines and message bodies mostly relating to current events from the said regions (About Iran, Pictures from ...