Eric Schmidt Stepping Down As Google CEO

In a bit of a shocker, Eric Schmidt announced today that he would be stepping down from his CEO role at Google. Why would someone at the helm of such a super power decide to step down? Simple, Larry and Sergei have grown up and are ready to lead Google. The company is as strong [...]

The Dark Side Of Your Coffee

Why not let your co-workers know what side of the struggle you stand on, the rebellion or the evil empire, with this Darth Vader mug (they are actually calling it a stein). The oversized mug will hold 24 ounces of your favorite beverage, be it coffee or something a tad stronger. That should be enough [...]

StumbleUpon Goes Bar-less

I have to give a plug to StumbleUpon which brings this site so much traffic. One of the major stumbling (no pun intended) with StumbleUpon is that you need to install a toolbar to enjoy all of the great social like experiences it offers. Well, you can now enjoy all of the great websites that [...]

GIFAR Image Vulnerability

Researchers at NGS Software have developed a method to embed malicious code into a picture. When the picture is viewed, the malicious code embed in the picture could send the attacker the credentials of the viewer. Social sites like Facebook, Myspace, or Digg are particularly at risk, but the researches say that any site which [...]

Download Torrents With A Torrent Client

Bitlet allows you to download torrents without the need of a bit torrent client. The app is entirely java/web based so you can download a torrent from any machine without needing to install any applications on the machine you are using. In addition, as an added bonus for everyone out there who is worried about [...]

Android Hacked To Run On Actual Hardware

Some crafty hackers have successfully gotten Google’s java based Android software stack to run on actual hardware. The first hardware platform to run the Android stack seems to have been the Atmark-Techno’s Armadillo-500, which is a development board based on Freescales’ i.MX31L mobile applications processor. Next, getting Anroid running on my ASUS EEEPC. How cool [...]

Scripting is baaaad

So, on Monday I reported on why you shouldn’t allow Flash on your network with the article: Nmap 127.0.0.1: Flash Style . Kind of hinting toward how a malicious site could scan your internal network without triggering your firewall, IPS/IDS, or sometimes even a host based firewall/ips. Today, I have a new threat that is [...]

New iPhone Killer? Motorola ROKR E8 and E7 Leaked

I must say, this phone does look quite slick. The picture above is the new Motorola ROKR E8, it’s basically a thin bar shaped handset with a JAVA/Linux based interface. It is rumoured to have 2GB of integrated memory and a microSD memory card slot for expandability. With a 2-megapixel camera, touch sensitive keys, mini [...]

Mixpanel: They like goats, what about you?

There’s only one main component to this site that the site begs from you as soon as you sign up: “So…we like goats, what about you?” Mixpanel quickly asks you your interests and forms an ever-changing tag cloud to quickly find content suited to you. The most important and largely unnoticed feature with mixpanel is [...]