Monthly Archives: August 2009
YouSAB – The Best Way to Surf Anonymously
This is a guest post by Patrick Holm, in which he explains the benefits of YouSAB, a Secure VPN & VOIP messenger service, which is particularly effective for users living in countries that censor Internet content. After reading Bill Mullins … Continue reading
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – August 31, 2009
Snow Leopard Is a Pale Imitation of Windows 7 – Let’s wade through Apple’s laundry list of borrowed features and derivative works in the new Mac OS. 64-bit Snow Leopard defaults to 32-bit kernel – Apple’s Snow Leopard operating system, … Continue reading
Filed under Internet Security Alerts, Tech Net News
Computer and Internet Related Addictions
Guest writer, Rick Robinette, writes a thoughtful article on computer and Internet addiction, and what overindulgence might mean. Overindulgence, in anything, (including computers and the internet) will result in devastation of some form. Have you lost your connection with the … Continue reading
Scareware Not Swine Flu – An Epidemic Nevertheless!
Cyber crooks are continuing to develop and distribute “rogue software”, also known as “scareware’, at a furious pace; there are literally thousands of variants of this type of malware currently circulating on the Internet. Unless you have had the bad … Continue reading
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Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – August 30, 2009
Detect All Computers Connected to Your Wireless Network – Wireless networks are biggest victim of hacking and misuse of connection. Wireless network setup inside your home and office may be misused by your neighbors as a way to get free … Continue reading
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SaveSoldier Fake Antivirus – Panda Security Takes a Look
Courtesy of Panda Security. This week’s PandaLabs report discusses the SaveSoldier fake antivirus and the Ramson.G worm. The first malware we’re looking at this week is another example of malicious programs that pass themselves off as legitimate software applications in … Continue reading
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – August 29, 2009
Head to head: Snow Leopard vs Windows 7 – Our definitive verdict – should you be upgrading your OS? Facebook Tweaks Privacy Policy in Face of Inquiry – Bowing to pressure from Canadian regulators, social networking giant said it plans … Continue reading
Filed under Internet Security Alerts, Tech Net News
Want to be a Successful Cyber Crook – Here’s a Tip!
If you want to enhance your chances of being a successful cyber scam artist/cyber crook, you need to; look the part and act the part, of a successful Internet business organization. How hard is that? Not hard at all when … Continue reading
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – August 28, 2009
Researchers crack WPA Wi-Fi encryption in 60 seconds – Computer scientists in Japan have developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in just one minute. The attack, which reads encrypted traffic sent between computers … Continue reading
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Paranoia on the Internet Pays Off
By chance, I met a very interesting cab driver today; one who was extremely computer competent and far more security conscious than the typical computer user I normally meet informally. What struck me immediately, was Mike’s sense of paranoia surrounding … Continue reading
