The following GIF is making the rounds, a perfect game of snake. It has been sped up to complete in just under three minutes. Some are claiming that it was a computer playing the computer, other saying the original game was slowed down so slow that the perfect game was possible. Either way, it is mesmerizing, enjoy. Perfect Snake Game  Read More »

The first Web Address, with a Hyper Text Markup page was http://info.cern.ch. Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML as it is now known, along with the Hyper Text Transport Protocol, Web Server and Web Browser, was invented by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee, back in 1989, while working at CERN. At the time people were surfing using Gopher a protocol oriented towards a menu-document design and WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) a basic text searching system. Gopher was essentially a competitor to Hyper Text Transport Protocol, developed at the... 

The Spanish organisation Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation (ANAR) have come up with a very innovative way to get their message across to their target audience. The advert uses lenticular printing, resulting in a different ad depending on your perspective. The shorter people of the world, children and adolescents, see a different target message than the taller (adults) of the world. The adult version shows a young lad, about 10-12 years old with a normal face unharmed, however from a child’s perspective they see a child with... 

I currently work for a security vendor that has over 25 years of Information Security experience, a significant majority of that experience in the Anti-Malware, Anti-Virus space. Having seen the virus distribution industry (nefarious as it is) grow from a new virus every month to over 100,000 new viruses a day, and the hacking culture morph from a teen hobbyist activity to a full fledge career choice (nefarious as it is); it is fair to say we have seen a lot and we have made it our purpose, for our existence, to understand the evolving threat landscape.... 

iPad I have a confession to make, I have an iPad. The reason that is so hard for me to admit is I am a techie, someone that knows their way around IT. I have been a Microsoft Certified Engineer since the NT 4 days and am even certified on the early versions of Novell. As we all know, iPads, and most Apple products are designed for, shall we say, not so “IT literate experts”, so it is with some disappointment that I had to spend an hour researching a problem with my iPad. The problem? I changed my password for my email account. A task many... 

An interesting concept video from the boys over at Sight Systems. The video takes the concept of on eye; possibly via contact lenses, display to a level that might be the nature evolution of the Google Glasses. We see actors portray the daily life of a future being that has access to technology on the go, including full access to the web and home technology. The marriage of Augmented Reality and extensive computing power on the video is very enticing. You could argue that as you now have answers to any question you can think of at the tip of your,... 

The US Government is not having a good time of it. After earlier in the week having the FBI hacked, they now have the U.S Navy and Department of Homeland Security websites hacked by a blind SQL injection. A group calling themselves “Digital-corruption” hacked into domains of both sites and leaked database information on to the popular hacking dumping ground, pastebin. The leaked data came from two websites, www.smartwebmove.navsup.navy.mil and twicinformation.tsa.dhs.gov and consisted of a database dump of usernames, passwords, email... 

Kogan.com announced last week that they will be adding an extra tax on Internet Explorer 7 users that want to purchase products from their website. The logic being that they have to put in extra development effort to make IE7 display the pages in a consistent format. Internet Explorer 7 has been around since October 2006 and is considered by most web developers as being a black sheep when it comes to compliance to international web standards. Any user wanting to purchasing product from the Kogan website will be charged an extra 6.8% of the product... 

What would a country do if another nation was to initiate a first strike against it, an attack against their critical infrastructure, for example, the country’s ports, or rail or airports? Surely as a minimum you would declare war against the striking nation? Well America, it seems, in conjunction with possibly Israel, have struck not once, not twice, but, if we believe what is in the press, three times against Iran’s critical national infrastructure. The first strike was Duqu, designed to collect information on Iranian nuclear infrastructure,... 

Artemis , a San Francisco based Internet Security specialist organisation plans to secure the web. They have applied for .secure top level domain name via the ICANN TLD Process, in the hope to provide a secure part of the Internet. Alex Stamos, Artemis CTO, states, “We are creating a safe neighbourhood where you know people follow the rules and you can rely on them to do things securely” To be part of the .secure domain you will need to evidence that you have applied appropriate security controls to your web environment. The idea is, if you...