“A quick look at why offering non-reseller subdomain hosting is a bad idea and can expose your passwords to malicious hostees.”

I’m glad I stubbled across this. I was going to host on WordPress Mu, but now I think I’ll stick with Blogware until I can lock down WPMU. WordPress is a superior product (more intuitive, better SEO design ect) But WPMU is just too new. I don’t feel comfortable having a buch of customers on such a shake, new system. I will likely host my own set of blogs on it until all the major bugs are worked out.

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Here is a huge map that pretty much shows you all possible ways to gain entrance into a system. From finding exploits and scanning ports to password cracking. It shows all the likely paths you can take to hack into a computer and/or test out it’s security.

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The Dark Tangent (Jeff Moss) president of the DEF CON hacker conventions is interviewed on CyberSpeak podcast and talks about the change in venue from Alexis Park to the Riviera Hotel and Casino. In response to the question, “who will protect our privacy from big business?”, he responds, “we are all doomed!”. Great interview!

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“Watch where you leave your fingerprints – soon they could be the target of thieves looking to break into your bank account.” — digg

Reminds me of that scene on Space Balls where Lone Star knocks out of the Space Ball guards and places his hand on the biometric palm pad.

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“An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows, according to data collected by iDefense, a Verisign company.”

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