This nifty little script allows you to monitor log files for instances of brute forcing as well as popular exploits that show up in your server logs files. Anyone that has many servers should check this out.
BFD (Brute Force Detector) Home Page
There is also a nice little write up of how to implement BFD without AFP and some extended rules.
Corporate critics feel the stinging lash of DMCA misuse -Two recent cases show that companies aren't always fans of criticism, and some will file misguided DMCA notices and defamation cases to scrub it from the Internet.
"Day of Silence" coming to Internet radio on June 26 -A number of Internet radio stations will go silent on June 26 in protest of the Copyright Royalty Board's decision to retroactively raise royalty rates in mid-July.
[Ars Technica]