by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, ENTERTIANMENT, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The iPhone and iPad are fantastic gaming devices, but unfortunately a lot of games still try to emulate gamepads with onscreen buttons on the touch screen and it just doesn’t work that well. Thankfully, a jailbreak app called Blutrol lets you turn a handful of...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
The Distributed Computing & Security research team at the University of Hanover in Germany has implemented a browser encryption test page that analyses the way in which an HTTPS connection is established. One of the things it demonstrates is the accessing...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 25, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, Technicals
Ramnit is one of the most prevalent threat families still active in the wild today. Two years ago, we talked about the infection method it uses in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) blog Little red Ramnit: My what big eyes you have, Grandma! by Scott...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 20, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), SECURITY, Technical Support
Apple Security: “Safe” Files Posted by Sean @ 14:22 GMT Things that Apple’s OS X 10.8.3 update patched — which may allow for arbitrary code execution — that are also on “safe” file type list used by Mac browsers: ImageIO (picture);...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | DATA, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals
Support for Windows 7 will continue until 2020, but only if the latest Service Pack has been installed. Where this is not the case, support will end at Microsoft’s next Patch Day on 9 April 2013. The company has therefore notified users that, with immediate...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 14, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals
Google wants to aid webmasters in identifying site hacks and recovering from them Google has launched a site for webmasters whose sites have been hacked, something that the company says happens thousands of times every day. The new site features articles and videos...
