Michael Gracie 

A Red Hat executive has announced that “hackers still matter.” Hacking software for fun is still okay, I guess. And maybe even a productive endeavor? Techcrunch must be regular tech sector corporate reading material now. Boy, if we could just get law enforcement to quit locking up everyone who discloses a security vulnerability for altuistic [...]

No sooner did MySpace start providing security measures to protect underage profiles, someone broke the privacy protection. Actually, it was broken for a while, but nobody was talking. This leads me to believe it wasn’t much of a breach, or someone would have whispered about it, and the blogs would have roared (long before someone [...]

A “new” browser technology

Not as though that this something new, after AT&T was found handing the NSA data, but there is a twist. Instead of the info being phone call records, handed out voluntarily, this time it is credit card data taken by “unauthorized personnel” (uh..hackers). The potential victims (estimated at 19,000) are folks who purchased products and [...]

But they’re not the kind you are thinking about now. No, instead of charging YouTube with having some type of security flaw, a government contractor charged that Coast Guard vessels have security flaws, via YouTube. Had you there for a second, didn’t I?

The US State Department is good and ready to issue passports with embedded RFID chips. They’ve been doing it for a few weeks right in my backyard, and now they’ve secured a contract with Infineon Technologies (of Germany) to supply chips going forward. The RFID chips will, of course, have plenty of information on them [...]

AOL is not having a good summer, so maybe it is good that summer is coming to an end. The company released a slew of search data into the open, then decided to “go free” because it’s subscriber base was disappearing. Ad revenue was the new name of the game, with ad ons like cheap [...]

An Australian gal who found fame via YouTube is retiring from her video blogging, citing invasion of her privacy after her personal computer was hacked. This would generally be too sensationalist for Spamroll, but I am hoping someone will provide some details as to exactly how someone found her PC (presumably) and how they got [...]

Bruce Schneier noted that Stephen Colbert is flogging computer security tips. The irony is that they are only viewable in Internet Explorer. Yes, there are some comments that suggest some workarounds, including clicking on that big red pop-up warning bar. Unfortunately, none of them worked for me either, and I already have .wmv capability through [...]

BBC News reported on a new study which suggests stock spammers are actually winning at their game. Of course, everyone taking their tips make up the other side of those trades. Hint hint – someone else is losing. It is a damn shame it is so difficult to borrow those penny stocks. 6% pops on [...]