After the rules were relaxed a bit, it took Charlie Miller only 2 minutes to hack a MacBook Air and win it along with $10,000 in CanSecWest's hacking contest.

A speaker at Black Hat says that money will fuel mobile spying programs, and as more sophisticated developers get in the game, programs will be harder to detect.

Google search is behind most phishing sites, according to brand protection firm MarkMonitor, and some 750 Google search terms are used to find sites likely to have easily exploitable vulnerabilities.

Microsoft renames CRM Live to CRM Online, a change that one official says is intended to distinguish its consumer lines from its business offerings.

And in the latest geek week in review Robert X. Cringely meets a gin-soaked barroom queen, a well-endowed blond nymphomaniac, Comcast plays the role of Big Brother and Cringe, in an unusual moment of sincerity, asks that you visit Heal Emru and tell your friends about it. Emru Townsend has leukemia and wants your blood marrow if you're a healthy person under age 60 of West African descent.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on March 28, 2008 09:31 AM