Recently I wrote about Flagfox, a simple Firefox extension that puts a flag in the corner of the browser window indicating the country where the website being viewed resides. Hovering the mouse over the flag displays the IP address (explanation below) of the website and clicking the flag brings up ......

A big part of phishing scams and identity theft is fooling people into thinking they are on one website when they are actually somewhere else. The technical tricks to accomplish this include lookalike and phony domain names, zapping the hosts file, tricks with URLs and assorted attacks on DNS servers. ......

The list of talks is now firm for the upcoming hacker conference, known as The Last HOPE. Organized by 2600, who you may know from their weekly radio show, Off The Hook, on WBAI-FM or their quarterly magazine, the conference will be held July 18th through the 20th at the ......

This story starts out like so many others, but then takes a twist. On Monday, Adobe released a patch that fixed a critical bug in their Adobe Acrobat Reader program. This was reported at CNET by Robert Vamosi, at ZDNet by Ryan Naraine, at the Washington Post by Brian Krebs ......

Last night and this morning I couldn't get to my personal website. Other websites and email worked just fine. The website itself wasn't broken ("down" is the official nerd term), the Internet was. A great service for pinpointing a problem like this is available at siteuptime.com. Their ......