by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
As you may know, Tuesday, a widespread “brute force” attack against WordPress sites started impacting sites across the internet. This attack is leveraging a botnet which looks to have more than one hundred thousand different computers at its...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports
from the sometimes-that’s-just-what-you-want-to-find dept. According to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test, searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches. The study looked at nearly 40...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET
from the get-off-your-duffs-and-invest-in-awesome-internet dept. Within hours of Google announcing that Austin, Texas would be the next lucky recipient of its Google Fiber initiative, AT&T released a statement indicating that it was willing to build a high-speed...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | HAPPINESS, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the good-god,-this-applicant-is-using-Lynx dept. The internet browser you are using to read this blog post could help a potential employer decide whether or not you would do well at a job. How might your choice of browser affect your job prospects? When choosing...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | Cloud Apps, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals
from the you’re-not-helping dept. IDC says Windows 8 is partly to blame for PC sales suffering the largest percentage drop ever. ‘As if that news wasn’t’ troubling enough, it appears that a pivotal makeover of Microsoft’s ubiquitous...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the why-don’t-they-just-apt-get-the-next-version? dept. “In one year today exactly, Microsoft will shut down support for Windows XP. The deadline will prove a challenge for many of Australia’s largest users of IT, all struggling to migrate to...
