{mosimage}After, ZDNet's much publicised accusation that OS X was hacked in 30 minutes (the machine was hacked because local accounts were given out), the University of Wisconsin threw down a real challenge.



"The testing period is now closed and the response has been very strong.

• Traffic to the host spiked at over 30 Mbps.
  
• Most of the traffic, aside from casual web visitors, was web exploit scripts, ssh dictionary attacks, and scanning tools such as Nessus.
  
• The machine was under intermittent DoS attack. During the two brief periods of denial of service, the host remained up.
  
• The test machine was a Mac mini (PowerPC) running Mac OS X 10.4.5 with Security Update 2006-001, had two local accounts, and had ssh and http open with their default configurations.
  
• There were no successful access attempts during the 38 hour duration of the test period.
  

• The site received almost a half a million requests via the web.
  
• There were over 4000 login attempts via ssh.
  
• The ipfw log grew at 40MB/hour and contains 6 million events logged.
  
• More test results and information will be published here at a future date."
  

{mosimage}TechEblog.com has posted up their latest weekly Top 10 list, this week, they bring us the Top 10 Strangest (or Coolest) Lego Creations.




Personally, I gotta say, how cool is that Han Solo in carbonite ?

{mosimage}Apple has released a new Security Update 2006-001, which delivers a number of security enhancements, including a fix for the much publicized Safari "Auto-Execute after Download" issue, which has cropped up on a few public sites.



This patch also updates the following:- apache_mod_php, automount, Bom, Directory Services, iChat, IPSec, LaunchServices, LibSystem, loginwindow, Mail, rsync and Syndication.

{mosimage}"Ever feel like you're not making good enough use of your feet when you're catching up on your e-mail or sorting through all those digital pictures you took on that last vacation?



Computer scientists in Microsoft Corp.'s research division have developed a color-coded "dance pad" with buttons you can tap with your feet — or jump on — to scroll through electronic files.



It may never make it to store shelves, but that's no concern to Microsoft, which spends billions of dollars a year researching far-out technologies without worrying about whether the gizmos will ever make it to store shelves."



So, there you have it folks. That's the REAL reason that MS want your money, so they can blow it on Windows enabled Dance Revolution ripoffs.

{mosimage}"Apple today unveiled the new Intel-based Mac mini at its special event in Cupertino, which will replace the company's previous low-end PowerPC-based model. The new machines come in two flavors, one that includes a single core processor and another boasting a dual core Intel chip.


The new single core Mac mini is said to be up to three times faster than the previous model, while the dual core model is nearly four times as fast as its predecessor."


Just checking my savings account right now ...