by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | DATA, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the ron-paul-says-eat-gold dept. A brief editorial by Steve Forbes, one of our moneymeisters, on why bitcoins are not money.. Hint: For those who are too lazy to read the opinion,. Bitcoins are too volatile to be money.” From the article: “Money is...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | HARDWARE, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
There is, in fact, a difference between all those network cables. They look very similar from the outside, and any of them will plug into an ethernet port, but they do have some differences on the inside. If you aren’t sure what type of cables you have, look at...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, Malware Reports, Web Hosting
Cybercriminals are attacking servers hosting WordPress sites in an attempt to build a potent botnet that would be eerily similar to one used last year to attack major U.S. financial institutions. The motives of the latest attackers is not known. However, their tactics...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 18, 2013 | Microsoft's Malware Protection Center
Java exploits represent a common attack vector used by the bad guys to infiltrate vulnerable computers via the web browser. We wrote about the rise of Java exploits as early as 2010, and we haven’t seen that trend decline. In fact, in the first quarter of...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 18, 2013 | Microsoft's Malware Protection Center
This morning, we released Volume 14 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv14). This new report studies our findings on trends in the threat landscape based on data from more than 1 billion systems worldwide, focusing on data collected in the second half...
