by Joseph Forbes | Mar 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, INTERNET, SECURITY
The company believes the attack was a coordinated attempt to compromise its systems Evernote, which makes business and consumer productivity software for things like taking notes and doing research, is forcing all of its 50 million users to change their passwords...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, PIRACY
from the prior-permission-and-assumed-wrongdoing dept. This last week, the Copyright Alert System was rolled out. Now that everyone is getting a better idea of what the alert system looks like, criticisms are building against the system. Freezenet says that the mere...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
The IT security world is full of charlatans and wannabes. And all of us have been “advised” by at least one of them. All you want in an IT security consultant is expertise, unbiased advice, and experienced recommendations at a reasonable price. But with...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
Further infection vectors were incorporated into Stuxnet over time Source: Symantec The first Stuxnet worm was in operation as early as 2007, not just, as previously believed, since 2009. Security firm Symantec found the older variant during a routine check of its...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, Data Recovery, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Once you’ve gone through a few computers, you probably have more than a few old hard drives lying around. You don’t have to let them go to waste, though! Here’s how to combine multiple hard drives into one, huge volume that’ll hold just about...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA
Cloud storage is everywhere, but if you don’t want to mess around with keeping your data on someone else’s computer, or you simply don’t want to pay for it, DIYer Dominic came up with a solution to use his own computer as a DIY remote storage system...