Countdown to ... doomsday

Since the beginning of time, expiry dates have been hand stamped on the world.

If it wasn't heralded by the first clap of thunder over our hairy ancestors it's now being forewarned by the melting of icebergs in the North.

But as humans, we suck at accurately predicting our end-times.

Here's a list of some of the notorious dates we lived through.

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Adobe confirms PDF zero-day attacks. Disable JavaScript now

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day (unpatched) vulnerability in Adobe’s ever-present PDF Reader/Acrobat software to hijack data from compromised computers. According to an advisory from Adobe, the critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions. It is being exploited in the wild

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8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight

8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight

Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers.

The evidence documenting this surveillance program comes in the form of an audio recording of Sprint's Manager of Electronic Surveillance, who described it during a panel discussion at a wiretapping and interception industry conference, held in Washington DC in October of 2009.

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