Sabotage may be a strong choice of word, but it immediately came to mind with the news of Microsoft’s latest .NET update.
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, unleashed in February, forces an undisclosed Firefox extension on Windows users, called “Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0″, and it does so without asking the users permission.
To [...]

After months of arbitration, Wikipedia have finally decided to clear the site of thetan influence, banning edits from I.P addresses linked to the Church of Scientology. The decision was made to circumvent continual attempts by cult members to silence critics, and push a self-serving agenda in Scientology-related entries.
Remedies outlined by the committee include..
“All IP addresses [...]

With the advent of HTML5 adoption just around the corner, and the announcement of Google Labs’ open source 3D graphics API, “O3D”, we will soon be seeing a wave of visually rich, media-centric web applications that will change the way you interact with the web.
O3D is a Javascript API which allows developers to create 3D [...]

The British National Party (BNP) is begging supporters for £5,000 after their website was hit with a large scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on sunday, which hammered the server with waves of up to 28 million hits, bringing the site down.
Deputy Leader, Simon Darby, blames ‘cyber-terrorists’ from Eastern-Europe and Russia, who, according to [...]

A massive number of popular websites are being infected with a virus which uses vulnerabilities in Adobe’s PDF Reader and Flash Player to inject malware into otherwise trusted links, which infect visitors silently, and re-direct Google searches to malware sites.
The virus, known as ‘Gumblar’ has been around for some time, but a recent mutation now [...]

Mozilla Labs have been busy tinkering away with various new products like Jetpack and Weave, but it was Bespin that really piqued my interest, so I decided to delve a little deeper.
Mozilla Labs describes Bespin as “[an] experiment that proposes an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing that aims to increase developer productivity, enable [...]

If you’re interested in tackling issues such as the UK’s looming surveillance state and government transparency (or lack thereof), you may want to attend this event and chew the fat with like-minded privacy advocates and social media enthusiasts in the comfortable setting of Oxford.
The Oxford 2009 Barcamp Transparency will take place on the 26th July [...]