The new skin trade

Vanity may be the driving force, but the booming business of nonsurgical cosmetic treatments is anything but frivolous. In 2005, Americans spent more than $12.5 billion on cosmetic procedures, the majority of which were noninvasive, meaning no knife required. Thanks partly to greater exposure in pop culture–through TV shows like Extreme Makeover–the number of nonsurgical … [Read more…]

Mac users ‘too smug’ over security

The first known computer virus, the Elk Cloner, is 25 years old. Since its appearance we have seen hundreds of thousands of malicious programs and their impact on our computer use has been immense. Millions of people have lost work, had their private information stolen or simply had to waste precious hours cleaning up their … [Read more…]

Apple developers embedded a warning deep in the software — in the form of a poem

Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and high-tech companies.The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack its new OS X operating system built to work on Intel Corp.’s chips and run pirated versions on non-Apple computers. So, Apple developers embedded … [Read more…]

Microsoft says “screw you” to EU

The European Union is about to impose a $2.4m per day fine because they say Microsoft hasn’t released technical documents as part of their antitrust settlement. But Microsoft says they’ve already handed in the 12,000 pages of technical info the EU asked for, and that the EU is creating problems by not understanding what they … [Read more…]

Things you don’t want Google to find – screenshots

“Hacking Google” isn’t exactly new. That is, using the search engine to look for confidential information. But as McAfee’s senior vice president for Risk Management George Kurtz demonstrated at RSA Conference, that didn’t prevent users and organisations to post those goodies online for anyone to find. read more | digg story