mspohr writes “The NY Times has an interesting story about a pair of researchers who ‘discovered that they could freeze, or crash, the software that monitors a [power] substation, thereby blinding control center operators from the power grid.’ These two engineers wrote software to test for vulnerabilities in the control systems of electrical power grids…

WordPress WooCommerce plugin version 2.0.17 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability…….

VMware Security Advisory 2013-0012 – VMware has updated vCenter Server, vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA), vSphere Update Manager (VUM), ESXi and ESX to address multiple security vulnerabilities…….

The Petersen Automotive Museum has hundreds of incredible cars, but many have never been seen by the public. Behold the Vault, where they house classics from over 100 years of automotive history that can’t fit in the museum itself. Here’s a tour with tons of pictures…….

Expected to be one of the most anticipated floatations this year, Twitter isn’t taking any chances following Facebook’s troubled initial public offering…….

Apple today released a software patch for 2012 and 2013 MacBook Airs that tests the SSD to see if it affected by a data loss bug. It installs a firmware update to resolve the issue or directs you how to get it replaced…….

But will it remain king for very long?……

Phopojijo writes “A monitor redraws itself top to bottom because of how the electron guns in CRT monitors used to operate. VSync was created to align the completed frames, computed by a videocard, to the start of each monitor draw; without it, midway through a monitor’s draw process, a break (horizontal tear) would be visible…

Web-Spa is a Java web knocking tool for sending a single HTTP/S request to your web server in order to authorize the execution of a premeditated operating system (O/S) command on it…….

If your job is cleaning up nuclear disasters, you might also want to consider a $1,000 anti-radiation swimsuit…….