How many times can you put two LEGO pieces together and take them apart again before they wear out? The answer is 37,112. At least that’s the number established by one test case. [Phillipe Cantin] was interested in this peculiar question so he built the test rig above to measure a LEGO’s lifespan. The hacked together apparatus …
Measuring the lifespan of LEGO
‘Saudi hacker’ thwarts blogger claims of revealed identity
Hacker responds to reports that Amir Fedida uncovered his identity, dismissing them as “another Israeli failure”; blogger claims hacker made mistakes enabling him to trace him; file spread containing Trojan horse.
How Liability is going to kill what little is left of Internet security…
Long term readers will know that I have often written of the failure of the browser vendors to provide effective security against phishing.
Watchdog washes hands of Lush hack
Soft soap for hippy soap seller
The Information Commissioner’s Office is facing criticism today for its failure to punish online retailer Lush for losing 5,000 customer debit and credit card details…
Lush website open to hackers for four months
Cosmetics retailer Lush has narrowly escaped a hefty fine from the Information Commissioner after its website was hacked and customer account and credit card details stolen
The breach of the Data Protection Act and Lush’s failure to process card detail…
Who knew Thinkpad batteries require a jump start?
Lithium battery packs reaching the end of their life usually have a lot of kick left in them. That’s because they’re made up of multiple cells and it only takes the failure of one to bork the entire battery. One of the most interesting examples we’ve heard of this is in the Toyota Prius, but …
Sony sacked security staff prior to big breach
A lawsuit filed this week suggests that Sony sacked a bunch of employees from its network security division just two weeks before the company’s servers were hacked and its customers’ credit card details leaked.
The suit, which seeks class action status…
