The BBC have ‘finally’ had some primetime coverage for the shadow economy of WoW gold. People paying real money for in game gold in a virtual world. The BBC News website has covered WoW, Second Life and other online worlds comprehensively over the last couple of years but this is the first time that I’ve [...]

At the recent CanSecWest conference a security expert took on the challenge of the ‘pwn to own’ contest whereby if you could hack a MacBook pro, you could win it. ZDnet covered the story of Dino Da Zovi creating a Zero-Day exploit that took advantage of a hole in Apple’s Safari browser. Dino created the [...]

Joost 0.9.0 has hit the beta testing community and sports a more polished interface, 26 channels and a new way to dish out Joost Invites. More importantly for me personally Joost now works fine without any kind of UAC changes in Windows Vista. No more need to ‘run as administrator’. The install process now detects [...]