Absolutely fascinating story of international malware directed at a nuclear facility in Iran.

"It's been 25 years since the first PC virus (Brain A) hit the net, and what was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage. Computer security expert Mikko Hyppönen tells us how we can stop these new viruses from threatening the internet as we know it."

User manual for phpass

Daniel Jalkut writes about the new API changes Twotter has made in the name of "security."

"That, in a nutshell is “Israelification” - a system that protects life and limb without annoying you to death."

Gruber curates some proclamations of how Mac's will be hit with malware.

Merlin Mann writes about the steps to send sensitive information via Dropbox.

"A Princeton University student whose Web site revealed the breadth of student information publicly available on Princeton servers has drawn criticism from the university and support from some students who say privacy safeguards should be tightened."

We're losing our liberties at the border when the Department of Homeland Security can seize electronics without warrants or probably cause.

We should be careful before we assume the background of the Espionage Act applies to Julian Assange as well.

Great deconstruction of the mess behind Gawker's user database being hacked.

"I'm not here to criticize Gawker. On the contrary, I'd like to thank them for illustrating in broad, bold relief the dirty truth about website passwords: we're all better off without them. If you'd like to see a future web free of Gawker style password compromises -- stop trusting every random internet site with a unique username and password! Demand that they allow you to use your internet driver's license -- that is, your existing Twitter, Facebook, Google, or OpenID credentials -- to log into their website."

Current airport security measures are both a waste of our time and our money.

Wonderful little comic about the TSA's reactions to security threats.

Great tips for protecting yourself on public WiFi via a VPN.

Google and its new privacy tools.

Jeff Jarvis critiques the recent Wall Street Journal article about cookies and news sites.

"The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work."

Gerald Blanchard successfully pulled off a series of high-profile heists throughout Canada and Europe before finally making a few careless mistakes.

The Italian city of Oderzo is pursuing some alarming increases in vigilante protectionism in order to guard against rising immigrant populations.

Nicholas Carr is getting a bit paranoid about Google and web services.

Amazing piece of reporting on WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier that leaked the Apache helicopter video.

Mark Cuban argues that the uproar over privacy and Facebook is misplaced.

Money quote: “Linux is open source and we feel good about it,” said one employee. “Microsoft we don’t feel so good about.”

Building up the "Facebook is not to be trusted" argument.

Notes from Danah Boyd's talk at WWW 2010. A great manifesto for cautiously dealing with Big Data.

There's an opportunity for Facebook, or another startup, to seize the role of the clearinghouse for online identity.

"Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent." – How long before someone sues the hell out of them?

"Google said on Friday that for more than three years it had inadvertently collected snippets of private information that people send over unencrypted wireless networks."

Chris Messina clarifies his views about the initiatives announced by Facebook at F8.

"Social networking is a huge part of the world we live in today. It's far too important to leave in the hands of a near-monopoly, even if that monopoly seems relatively benign today."

Some of the basics behind the cyberattack on Google's Gaia system.