by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
In the next couple of days Microsoft plans to introduce an extension that will make the login process for Microsoft accounts more secure. The method, called “two-step verification” in a blog post, will require not only a conventional password, but also a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, HAPPINESS, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
Set the rules for what happens to your Google data if you go off to that great results page in the sky Google provided a somewhat morbid reminder of the increasing primacy of digital data in our lives with the release today of the euphemistically named Inactive...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the safer-than-relying-on-pigoens dept. Vint Cerf, one of the ‘founders of the Internet,’ told an audience April 16 that if he could do it all over again, he would construct the Internet in the mold of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Cerf, who...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | DATA
from the projected-release-2047 dept. Java Development Kit 8, planned for September 2013, is being delayed until next year because of ‘a renewed focus on security.’ Java has been having security publicity problems recently, but Oracle now seems to be...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the credit-where-credit-is-due dept. A few weeks ago the FSF reported that Google had started blocking invites sent from non-Google Jabber servers. This was done as a crude anti-spam measure. Google have since rolled out proper anti-spam filtering for its Jabber...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
From August 2011 to February 2013, AV-TEST investigated malicious code in approximately 40 million search results from major search engines. The results of their research are now out and show that Google comes out on top, returning only 272 infected web pages in a...
