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A former Anonymous hacker talks about hacktivism and the biggest security hole of all - social engineering. "It all comes down to lies, everyone does it and some people get good at it."

We're all being drilled over and over again to always use mysqli::escape_string, PDO::quote, or preferably prepared statements when escaping user-supplied strings for use in MySQL queries.

MyCE: "It seems that Sony executives either hadn't been paying attention to the reports, or simply discounted them as another easily-corrected security hole, as they had not released any type of statement regarding the discovery until today."

For the past 3.5 years or so, NVIDIA has ardently advocated the GPU as a computational platform capable of solving almost any problem.

One topic the company hasn't targeted, however, is the tremendous performance advantage the GPU could offer malware authors.

The idea that a graphics card could double as a security hole isn't something we've...

Mozilla addressed a critical security vulnerability with a minor Firefox update, bringing the browser to version 3.6.2.

Sure, It's Secure: "It seems like every other week there's a new Internet Explorer security hole. Here's the story on the latest."

Ubuntu User: "The current discussion in the Ubuntu forums is about a possible security hole in GNOME, specifically about GNOME registered users having their passwords appear as cleartext on the keyring.

Not a bug, say its defenders, but the security concept behind the GNOME keyring."

If you’re one of the about 10% of Twitter users that protect your tweets, watch out, because anybody can read them with a simple Google search.

Cyber Cynic: "An old and obscure problem with the gcc compiler was recently discovered to have left a security hole in essentially every version of Linux that anyone is likely to be running.

Here's what you need to know about fixing it."

Microsoft is seeing an increase in the number of malware attacks exploiting a security hole supposedly addressed by a recent patch, the company announced on Wednesday.