Great-looking abs are more than just a way to support the mirror industry. In fact, strong abs and flat stomachs are the ultimate indicator of overall health-for both men and women. Great abs will help you live longer, sleep better, prevent back pain, and significantly improve your sex life! (And, hey, they don't look half-bad in the...
Indulging in a wide spectrum of ideas, beliefs, and perspectives is a critical cornerstone of democracy. After all, it is often debates over differences of opinion, such as whether to legalize abortion, how to treat prisoners, or when to enact the death penalty, that shape our society and drive it forward. Such diversity of thought is...
"Cybercrime and cyber-terrorism represent a serious challenge to society as a whole." - Hans Christian Krüger, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Crime has been with us as long as laws have existed, and modern technology has given us a new type of criminal activity: cybercrime. Computer and...
Twitter is the most rapidly adopted communication tool in history, going from zero to ten million users in just over two years. On Twitter, word can spread faster than wildfire. Companies no longer have the option of ignoring the conversation.
Unlike other hot social media spaces, Twitterville is dominated by professionals,...
WHEN I FIRST MET BARRETT LYON in 2004, I was covering Internet security for the Los Angeles Times from an office in San Francisco. His story was so good—and met a journalistic need so deep—that I had a hard time believing it was true.
For more than a year, I had been grappling with an onslaught of urgent but...
Our world faces an unprecedented energy crisis. Fuel shortages, skyrocketing energy prices, climate change, nuclear contamination, catastrophic oil spills and energy wars define the global scenario. The nonrenewable energy path of oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear is headed for a dead-end at an accelerated speed. In our race for survival we...
More than ever before, today's Oracle DBA faces a database farm that is growing both in physical size and actual numbers. To keep these databases up and performing at exceptional levels, the database administrator needs more than a cobbled together set of scripts that they use to (hopefully) verify that everything is in order.
Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first...
My journey down the social media road began years
ago, and many people have praised me for my foresight
and brilliance. They are very kind, but the
truth is, what really took me down this road was desperation.
A few years ago—perhaps you remember—the economy
took a heck of a dip. On its way down, it punched me in the...
Advanced Crime Scene Photography developed over time and out of my
experiences as a crime scene investigator with a large metropolitan police
department. Like any major city, violent crime is prevalent, offering numerous
opportunities to utilize the different skills and techniques learned and
evolved through numerous schools, scene...
When it comes to addressing most of the challenges we face as a society, it is often
said that change begins at home. This is an exciting prospect—that we can make a difference
around the world by changing the way we live our daily lives—and nowhere is
it truer than in our efforts to improve the health of our planet,...
Client-side web app development has always been the poor cousin to server-side coding. This started
because browsers and the devices they run on have been less capable than enterprise-class servers. To
provide any kind of serious web app functionality, the server had to do all of the heavy lifting for the
browsers, which was pretty...
