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Wired Hacked?

February 25th, 2004 · 1 Comment

 

As I often do, I spent my lunch sifting through various news sites. One of the front-page stories from Wired caught my eye because it had no description or author information associated with it (click the thumbnails above for screenshots). The short blurb itself didn't adhere to standard journalistic grammar; at least insofar [...]

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Trick Or Treat

December 11th, 2003 · No Comments

If you're using Internet Explorer as your browser, do yourself a favour and replace it with Mozilla, Firebird, Netscape or Opera.

As if moving to a monthly patch cycle wasn't obtuse enough, Microsoft has decided to forego security updates for the month of December. This decision was made on the heels of a late-November disclosure [...]

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She’s Dead, Jim

November 17th, 2003 · 2 Comments

There's definitely something wrong with BlogRolling this morning. Either they were hacked or something is tremendously corrupt in their database.

It would probably be wise to disable your BlogRoll and make sure that you're not using the same password anywhere else. Paranoia is my favourite way to fly.

Does anyone know of another BlogRolling-style service?

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