Gadgetopia

A Washington Post article reports that a Hopkins, MN teenager has been arrested in connection with the Blaster-B worm. "A court official identified the teenager as Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minn., known online as 'teekid.' A U.S. official in Washington also confirmed an arrest was made early Friday. ...

Users Blast Microsoft Over Worm Response: Bill's not making any friends in the security community...again. "Widespread problems with the Blaster patch, issues with the Microsoft-supplied workaround, and a general dissatisfaction with the way the vendor handles updates have led administrators and security experts to lay much of the blame for ...

An article in ComputerWorld reports that the Blaster Worm may have contributed to the severity of last month's blackout in the NorthEast. On the day of the blackout, Blaster degraded the performance of several communications lines linking key data centers used by utility companies to manage the power grid, the ...

"Good" worm hits computers but tries to repair damage "A new computer worm is spreading worldwide through a security hole in Windows also used by last week's Blaster worm but then patching the hole instead of crashing the system like Blaster does, security experts said on Monday."

Microsoft: Bounty hunter: Considering they swallow $10 million in bad press for every Blaster or Sobig, this is quite a deal for them. "As the first part of the program, Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) announced two $250,000 rewards, a total of $500,000, for information that leads to the arrest of ...

SQL Server Gets Automatic Patch Updates: This is overdue. "Following the virus and worm devastation wrought by Blaster and SoBig this past week, Microsoft Corp. on Friday admitted that it has finally bitten the bullet and committed to automatic security patch updates for its SQL Server database"

NERF N-STRIKE LONGSHOT CS-6: This Nerf gun is a little creepy. Though they re careful to never mention the phrase sniper rifle, that s essentially what this is. This blaster is more than three feet long and can launch foam arrows up to 35 feet away! Aim with accuracy and precision using ...

LEGO: Another great article at Wikipedia. Name one geek who never played with Legos. The company's name was coined by Christiansen in 1934, from the Danish phrase leg godt, meaning "play well." The word "LEGO" is claimed to mean "I put together" or "I assemble" in Latin, although this is ...

Here's a trend I'm seeing in driver downloads from hardware manufacturers: they're bundling dozens of drivers into one file that detects your hardware and installs the right driver. (Mind you, while I'm just noticing this trend, it's probably been around for years...I'm not all that perceptive...) I got a new ...