Cody Taylor

To make Facebook advertiser-friendly, its ‘porn cops’ delete risqué content and enforce decorum.

The Torpig botnet was hijacked by the good guys for ten days earlier this year before its controllers issued an update and took the botnet back. During that time, however, researchers were able to gain a glimpse into the kind of information the botnet gathers as well as the behavior of Internet users who are prone to malware infections.

An anonymous reader notes that this weekend, ReadWriteWeb discovered a security hole on several McAfee sites, which lets any attacker piggyback on the company’s reputation and brand in order to distribute malware, Trojans, or anything else. The submitter adds an ironic coda to McAfee’s epic fail: “In the ‘how to HTML Injection’ section, the author provided the four steps needed to execute a simple, no-brainer injection, but unfortunately, exposed a hole in NY Times website when they republished the article. While the author changed the offending text to an image, the Times is still using the original story which redirects directly to ReadWriteWeb [via XSS].” From the RWW post: “During tests this weekend, we discovered the company who claims to ‘keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud…’ has several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and provides the bad guys with a brilliant — albeit ironic — launching pad from which to unleash their attacks.”

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We just got some blurry photos and specs for the new, decidedly more newspaper- and college textbook-friendly Amazon Kindle DX. Here’s what we know: it’s got a 9.7-inch display (as opposed to the current six-inch unit), a long-requested built-in PDF reader, and the ability to add annotations in addition to notes and highlights.

There is a new company that offers a solid state drive solution that targets all those applications that need the highest IOPS performance available. DDRdrive claims that its DDRdrive X1 can hit 300,000 IOPS, the highest performance we are aware of in this segment, and even more if DDRdrives are daisy-chained.

Joshua Ziering took an iPhone, a radio-controlled helicopter, a Wi-Fi router and mixed it up with the iPhone’s accelerometer and touch interface to built a R/C helicopter controller.