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The Sins of Tammy Nyp

Singaporean student, Tammy Nyp is at the center of a storm of publicity on the internet and especially in the blogosphere that will leave a lasting negative impact on her life.
Her crime is recording herself having sex with her boyfriend on her mobile phone and then having that phone stolen by a jealous rival. The […]

Stealing Government Secrets

Getting access to government computers in the UK has been made a whole lot easier this week.
Actually, we’re sure that they are scrambling to close this little gaping flaw in the security of the UK Parliament.
It seems that new MPs have been disallowed by the secuity boffins at the Houses of Parliament from having access […]

Cyber Crime Now Bigger than Drug Sales

Not surprisingly, 2005 was the worst year ever for computer security breaches.
This is hardly surprising considering the exponential growth of the internet as well as the wider adoption of general technology - in fact it would be very surprising if 2006 doesn’t outsrip 2005 for cyber-crime easily.
In 2004 cyber crime netted the recipients $105 Billion […]

OralB Vibrating Lockpick

Jared Bouck of InventGeek.com has come up with a very novel way for abusing the use of a vibrating toothbrush (it’s probably not what you are thinking).
Jared has submitted instructions for turning the electric toothbrush into a lockpick that he claims can pick most padlocks in a matter of seconds.
By pumping 9 volts of raw […]

Disgraced Hwang a Hero?

By now, most of you are probably familiar with the Hwang Woo Suk carnival of controversy. For those of you who are unfamiliar, allow me to summarize. Hwang, a Korean scientist, had claimed that he had been able to successfully clone 11 lines of stem cells in his experiment. Not only that, but he claimed […]