In today's podcast: Apple to offer more DRM-free songs; former Borland CEO joins VMware; and AMD gets US government approval for Foundry spinoff.

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So first there is the Twitter phishing attack, and now an 18-year-old hacker gets into their admin tools and does some nasty things. What's next??

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The official website of major league baseball, mlb.com, is pushing malicious software according to Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software.

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Britain's Home Office has approved a plan that would expand warrantless searches of home PCs by police and M15 agents. The plan allows law enforcement to basically hack into a PC without a warrant. read more.

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The often-overlooked hard disk password feature can offer improved security. On some computers, hard disk passwords can be used in conjunction with power-on passwords to offer two independent security schemes with a single password. ThinkPads do this, the Acer Aspire One netbook does not. At least the Aspire One offers hard disk passwords, many computers don't.

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This pilot fish writes a program to check activity on a particular server, then starts it up and leaves it running -- and learns a lot more than he wanted to.

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A South Korean woman barred from entering Japan fooled the biometric fingerprint scanner by putting "special" tape over her fingers.

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One defensive computing topic that doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves is protecting the hard disk with a password. The protection is a big step up from a Windows or power-on password, it requires hardly any time and effort and it's free. If you can get it.

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Traenk's not at all quick to judgment concerning the Zune incident. Is this a sign of extreme vendor incompetence or simply one of many events that frustrate all software vendors?

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The other day I read in John Markoff’s New York Times piece that researchers used video game technology to prove an interesting point. It seems that a group of U.S. and European researchers were able to work a group of Sony PlayStation 3 gaming machines to prey upon a vulnerability in a software system that’s supposed to protect commercial Internet transactions.

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