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Password joke named funniest at Edinburgh Fringe

25

Aug

2011

A joke about passwords has won a competition for the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe. Stand-up comedian Nick Helm was judged to have the best joke of the festival, beating a number of better-known acts. 10 comedy critics spent two weeks hunting for the best jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe, putting their top 30 […]

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Is Juicejacking the new Firesheep? (Not really, but learn how to avoid it anyway.)

19

Aug

2011

I’m sure you’ve heard of hijacking. These days, it usually refers to the takeover by force of an aircraft in flight. (The word hijack is more interesting than you might think. No-one seems to know its origin. It first appears in the USA in the early 1920s, years before the first aeroplane hijack. Some say […]

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Defcon for Kids Raising a New Generation of ‘Hackers’

09

Aug

2011

At the Defcon conference in Las Vegas last week, kids aged 8 to 16 were exposed to the world of hacking. Some may fear indoctrinating a new generation of Anonymous and LulzSec members, but young minds can expand the horizons of technology and computer security to effectively combat hacking collectives such as these. The kids […]

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