Katie Price most risky web celeb – Searching the web for news about Katie Price, formerly known as Jordan, could be a dangerous activity. Anyone searching for the latest gossip about Price’s romance with cage fighter Alex Reid of the fallout from her ex-husband Peter Andre has a one-in-six chance of picking up an infection.
Delphi W32/Induc virus – what you need to know – A curious piece of malware called W32/Induc is designed to infect applications written using Delphi (a variant of the Pascal language originally developed by Borland, and now used to quickly develop Windows programs such as database applications). The virus inserts itself into the source code of any Delphi program it finds on an infected computer, and then compiles itself into a finished executable.
Nokia to Enter PC Industry with First Netbook – The world’s top cell phone maker Nokia said on Monday it would start to make laptops, entering a fiercely competitive, but fast-growing market.
Apple to ship Snow Leopard Aug. 28 – Apple said Monday that it will ship the latest upgrade to its OS X Aug. 28. The upgrade, known as Snow Leopard, refines OS X and features built-in Microsoft Exchange support.
Microsoft WINS vulnerability under attack – Just one week after Microsoft issued a fix for a worm hole in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), malicious hackers have started launching attacks against unpatched systems. The MS09-039 update, released earlier this month on Patch Tuesday, is rated “critical” and Microsoft warned at the time that it expected to see dangerous exploit code within 30 days.
Put together a solid barebones system for $350 – As component prices continue to fall, it’s a great time to build a great computer for a few hundred dollars. Today I’ll list the components that I’d choose for a $350 barebones system. Note: The barebones system doesn’t include a case, keyboard, mouse, monitor or OS.
Twitter spammers post sexy profile pictures – Spammers have created bogus accounts on Twitter, and embedded racy messages into their profile images. Find out more about the attack, and how it attempts to lure unsuspecting social networkers into a date with an adult website.
10 XP services you should never disable – Disabling unnecessary services can improve system performance and overall system security. But there are some critical Windows XP services that you should never disable.
Coming Soon: Publish Facebook Pages to Twitter – The social networking giant will soon release a promotional marketing tool that will let you automatically publish your Facebook Page to your Twitter account.
Identity Theft Fighters Should Target Bank Accomplices – A lawsuit filed by Unspam against European hacker groups is designed to open backdoors into banking records and expose the hacker bank accounts. Why not go after the middleman in identity theft: banks? Financial institutions process millions of dollars in black hat transactions. Doesn’t that make them conspirators?
A First Look 2010 Security Suites – PCMag’s Security Analyst, Neil Rubenking, has tested the first batch of 2010 Security suites and in this story he offers up his advice. BitDefender and Kaspersky fair well, eScan not so much. Seems like Norton is still the suite to beat, but since it is still in beta we can’t give it an official rating yet. Norton once had a bad rap for being a performance killer, but it seems like the company has turned it around.
Tim’s 10 Audio Commandments – I usually hate it when Tim gets preachy, but it’s hard to find fault with his audio commandments. From proper speaker placement to how to care for your headphones, he is pitch perfect. Take a few minutes to read this story and your life will be better for it.
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Welcome To Executive Prison Consultants – Are you facing the prospect of serving time in a federal prison? If so, you have already embarked on a personal journey that can be confusing, frightening, and intimidating. Regain control now and don’t allow yourself to be just another nameless and faceless statistic in the vast federal bureaucracy. You can take charge of your life, and we can help. Note: This is real – not a joke!
A view from above – Atlantis astronauts carried out five back-to-back spacewalks to fix and upgrade the 19-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, adding five to 10 years to Hubble’s the observatory’s lifetime. Scientists hope to begin beaming back the results by early September.
Encyclopedia of Life Provides Clues on Aging, Pests – An online encyclopedia aiming to describe every type of animal and plant on the planet has reached 170,000 entries and is helping research into aging, climate change and even the spread of insect pests.
Mental Heuristics – A heuristic is a “rule-of-thumb”, advice that helps an AI program or human think and act more efficiently by directing thinking in an useful direction. Some of these heuristics are age-old wisdom, bordering on cliche, but most are actually helpful.
DISNEY’S DIRTY SECRET – Back in the old days of Disney and, as recently as Beauty and the Beast, animators and the studio would cut cost by recycling animation over and over again. We’ve got the proof!
Stoners Volunteer to Save California by Being Taxed – While Sacramento scrambles to cut hundreds of millions of dollars of funding for public transportation and other programs around the state, a serious group of underground marijuana professionals are offering to pay at least a billion dollars in taxes, if only California would legalize pot.
Today’s Free Downloads:
Top 16+ Open Source E-Commerce Applications – E commerce has grown into one of the most feasible ways to establish a market presence. For those already reining the market it’s a channel for cheaper and more efficient distribution chain for products services. There are a good number of firms who have tasted success with eCommerce. Especially the Open source ecommerce applications are being largely used to fillip businesses. The whole game is how to fit the ecommerce app to your benefit.
Windows 7: Stardock’s Fences utility – a free download, allows you to corral your desktop icons into “Fenced” areas which can be moved around your desktop, and are independently scrollable.
Thunderbird 2 – Thunderbird is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser. Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.
iPodBackup 1 – iPodBackup is utility which allows owners of an iPod to backup all the music files from their iPod to their PC. The user selects the location of the music folder on their iPod then selects a folder on their hard drive to back files up to. Includes instructions on importing backed up files into iTunes.
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