by Joseph Forbes | Apr 16, 2013 | Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SOFTWARE, Technicals
from Microsoft® Malware Protection Center by msft-mmpc We recently came across an interesting threat that we detect as TrojanDownloader:Win32/Nemim.gen!A. This particular malware is a trojan downloader, and is capable of deleting its downloaded component files in a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 16, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
No one is going to have a better pipe than Dish-Sprint, according to Dish chairman Dish Network has made a US$25.5 billion bid to acquire wireless operator Sprint Nextel, hoping to edge out a rival bid from Japanese operator SoftBank. The satellite service...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | SOFTWARE, Technicals
No matter where you work odds are your company uses some sort of relational database. And nearly all of these use SQL for data retrieval. So it goes without saying that ultimatley if you want to play with data, you need to learn a little bit of SQL. You might argue...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, SECURITY, Web Hosting
Researchers at Sucuri have found that version 4.0 of the WordPress Social Media Widget, also referred to as social-media-widget, has been injecting spam advertisements into sites. It is recommended that anyone using the widget, which has over 900,000 users, remove or...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | DATA, GMAIL, HAPPINESS, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the bulldoze-away dept. A few years ago, when Google was determining which city to launch its pilot Google Fiber program, cities all over the country went all-out trying to persuade the search giant to bring all that fantastical bandwidth to their neck of the...
