Yesterday, Twitter announced that they had changed their terms of service (TOS) to allow them to, among other things, hand over your information to advertisers and “use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute” your tweets. They … Continue reading →

As a followup to the Google Gmail outage post I thought I’d post the email notification sent from Google to all of its “premium account holders”. I know it’s a form letter but it does convey their apologies, provides links … Continue reading →

Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has decided that Bell Canada must clearly tell its customers that it is collecting information for the purposes of traffic shaping. Bell states that they only collects the IP information of its subscribers’ … Continue reading →

As reported by numerous sources Apple’s latest operating system upgrade, code named Snow Leopard, forces Adobe Flash Player to be downgraded to 10.0.23.1. Adobe had this to say: The initial release of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) includes an … Continue reading →

According to the official Gmail blog, Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar, claims that the reason Gmail was down for roughly 100 minutes yesterday was due to a portion of servers being taken offline for upgrades. The traffic, … Continue reading →

I had an idea early this morning that may or may not work and may or may not have been attempted before. Frankly, if it has been done before, it hasn’t been done in a while so it’s time to … Continue reading →

Here is a great, and scary, blog post from the folks over at Offensive Security. It details how easy it is to own a fully patched Windows 2000 SP4 server that has the Microsoft IIS FTP 5.0 remote system exploit. … Continue reading →