08.05.08 - 03:20pm
Well, it’s always nice to know the government is so secure about using our personal information. Like how an outside contractor that runs one of the “trusted traveler” fast-passes at airports has lost the laptop containing 33,000 users of the Clear system.
It is just absolutely disgusting about how you would THINK you could trust a [...]
08.05.08 - 01:25pm
One of the amazing things about the Internet is the proliferation of free software available, from programming languages to desktop software. On the flip side, one of the many dangers of having so much software available is that a lot of it is just not up to snuff, for many reasons. One of the most [...]
06.11.08 - 11:25am
There was a an interesting article in the Washington Post about the rise of what is being called “ransomware”. The basics behind ransomware is pretty easy to grasp, although a harder concept to actually execute. One thing is for sure: You really need to be vigilant in helping to protect your own system.
Basically, somehow the [...]
06.02.08 - 11:43am
On this week’s TWiTLive, Jim Louderback is one of Leo’s guests. He elaborates more on exactly what happened with the Memorial Day attack on Revision3.com.
I still can’t fathom that another company can come in and do something like this. By the sound of it, it wasn’t a planned attack. It seems that MediaDefender’s machines reacted [...]
05.29.08 - 10:03pm
As I am sure a good deal of the readers of this blog are aware, Revision3.com is a fantastic mostly tech-centric internet television network. Over the Memorial Day holiday, they had a Denial of Service attack. For the best few days, everyone has been scratching their heads trying to figure out who would target [...]
05.27.08 - 03:11pm
ShieldsUp! is a website that will scan your computer for insecure ports. Now I could get incredibly technical here, but basically here is all you need to know.
Sometimes you computer needs some of these ports open; this is normal. What do don’t want is having ports open unnecessarily.
Crackers can exploit these open ports [...]
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