[H]ardNews 5th Edition

Top 11 Geek Halloween Costumes:

Brian Briggs and the BBSpot crew have come up with this year’s Top 11 Geek Halloween Costumes. While most of you may laugh at the absurdity of it all, I actually DID see a smoking hot Cat5-Woman on Halloween last year, so don’t laugh!

11. Cat5-Woman

New AIM Worm:

The new AIM worm is doing more damage than expected. Apparently AOL users are good at clicking on links and infecting themselves. Weird.

The unnamed worm delivers a cocktail of unwanted software, including a so-called rootkit, security experts at FaceTime Communications said Friday. A rootkit is a tool designed to go undetected by the security software used to lock down control of a computer after an initial hack.