by Joseph Forbes | Feb 21, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the drying-up-the-well dept. Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, MONEY, Technicals
I have a good pile of old computer equipment too, some of which is probably only valuable to people who really really want them at this point. IDE hard drives? Sure, I have those. AGP graphics cards? Maybe one or two left lying around in case an old system fails. The...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the for-higher-love dept. “You thought you had successfully avoided the tiresome password guessing bots groping at your SSH service by moving the service to a non-standard port? It seems security by obscurity has lost the game once more. We’re now...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 19, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
Security pros warn about believing everything you hear about malware, zero-day attacks, compliance and more They’re security myths, oft-repeated and generally accepted notions about IT security that…simply aren’t true. Security Myth #1:...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 19, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the only-if-they-knew-how-to-play-nice-with-others dept. Microsoft is leaving billions of dollars on the table by not porting Office to the iPad, according to a new analyst report. That analyst, Morgan Stanley’s Adam Holt, believes that Office for iOS would...
