Looks like TaintDroid just stole the Worst Recent Product Name award away from the Dell Streak. Once you get past the name, though, TaintDroid (that’s hard to type, even) may turn out to be a valuable app for Android owners.
On the subject of the Twitter brouhaha from yesterday, apparently the vulnerability in the site’s code that led to all the pop-ups, worms, and general merriment enjoyed by spammers and hackers was discovered by a 17-year-old Australian named Pearce Delphin.
You might want to stay off of Twitter.com for a while until this all gets sorted out, but apparently plenty of people (myself included) are finding that simply hovering the mouse cursor over links on Twitter’s site is causing random spam-like popups, retweets, and other bad stuff to happen.
By now you’ve heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There’s a good chance you ignore them. Let’s talk about why that is and what you can do about it.
Gawker is reporting that a recent vulnerability on AT&T’s network exposed the e-mail addresses associated with what they believe to be 114,000 iPad 3G owners’ user accounts.
There’s surely some connection between Google flipping the switch on https access for everyone using Gmail as a default and the China debacle but they likely won’t admit it. Not that they need to but it became quite clear that Gmail accounts had been accessed via third parties yesterday when it was announced that Google [...]
