If you are running Tor, you might be running a botnet too

Security researchers have identified a new botnet that is controlled by attackers from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service inside the Tor anonymity network. Unable to determine its real location or sniff its encrypted traffic, law enforcement are going to have a tough time shutting it down.

The banks of JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America are being increasingly targeted this week, in a systematic denial-of-service (DoS) attack against their websites. National security officials told NBC News that the cyber attacks are originating from the government of Iran and as a result, the cyber threat level was raised from “elevated” to…

In a perfect example of “what goes around comes around”, SBB is upset that Apple used the clock face in their application without permission and noted that they hold the copyright and trademark of the design.

If you run Sophos Antivirus and have it set to nuke malicious files upon detection, you may no longer have automatic updates. Sophos recently pushed an update that created a pretty funny false positive. Sophos Antivirus mistakenly detected its own automatic updater as malware.

Apple’s “form over function” mentality was blatantly evident with their switch from Google’s mapping service to Apple Maps in iOS 6 and Apple users are irate over the change. Apple Maps in beta was horrible but hey, it was a beta. Then iOS 6 rolled out with the final Apple Maps product installed and guess…

Western Digital is working to deliver a new helium filled harddrive to be introduced to the market in 2013. Current day harddrives use open enclosures, with holes in the drive enclosure to vent air through the drive. Western Digital’s new drives will be sealed and filled with helium gas which is much less dense than…

Microsoft Internet Explorer has it and so does Firefox. Now Google Chrome will (reluctantly) have it too. The do-not-track option lets the user opt out of allowing their online activity to be tracked. Google decided to add the option as part of an agreement with the United States government.

Wheelchairs be damned. With Tankchair you can reach places you never thought you could traverse at speeds that’ll blow your hair back. TC Mobility (High Performance Mobility Products) began from one Phoenix man’s frustration watching his children go on hikes while their disabled mother was stuck at camp.

Pack your bags. Space.com reports that scientists may have found a loophole in that pesky “speed of light” limit making warp drives (drives that enable travel through space-time), as popularized in the television series Star Trek, possible after all.

According to ComputerWorld, attackers have begun exploiting a new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. The vulnerability allows hackers to hijack Windows PCs that browse to malicious or compromised websites.