The hacker, who goes by the handle GMZ, told Threat Level on Tuesday he gained entry to Twitter’s administrative control panel by pointing an automated password-guesser at a popular user’s account. The user turned out to be a member of Twitter’s support staff, who’d chosen the weak password “happiness.”
Cracking the …

From Mark Burnett’s 2005 book Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication, a table of the “Top 500 Worst Passwords Of All Time.”  I hope you’ll not find yours on the table below..
There are some interesting passwords on this list that show how people try to be clever, but even human cleverness …

Proxy-search.com is a proxy search engine that I have set up a few months ago in order to support and promote my proxy websites..
After reading Garry’s post  “Are you on my top Spot?” i thought that I should give ScratchBack one more try. I used it on this blog for …

Twitter is undoubtedly becoming one of the fastest growing social media tools in existence. As it continues to expand, so too does the diversity of its user base. Whether you ’re new to Twitter, a veteran user, or someone that is just interested, here’s a list of the 10 people …

Do you think you know all of the brands of the Web 2.0 movement? Quizible has created a quiz where you have to match the company names to the logos of a variety of Web 2.0 services. I didn’t manage to get all of them — do you think you …

YouTube has added an extra-large (850×500) video player for videos that are available in HD format (like this example). Also, there’s a new HD option in YouTube browser that lets you quickly filter all HD videos on a page.

Influenza (the flu) is a serious contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. Millions of people in the United States get the flu each year. Most people are sick for about a week. Some people (especially young children, pregnant women, older people, and people with chronic health problems) can get …

Microsoft acquired the domain Kumo.com last week, a move that is widely expected to result in the second rebranding of its search engine. Following MSN and Live.com, Kumo could be a sign of a new attempt to limit Google’s growth and detach the search engine from a growing number of …

I found this fascinating quote today:
Social media is an extension of good public relations, but should be a company-wide approach that PR helps manage and facilitate. Exactly, you can’t have a marketing or PR strategy that is balkanized anymore. Read, tweet and learn, these guys not on board for …

LiveATC allows you to listen to live Air Traffic Control feeds from around the world. It’s really interesting..