by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the say-what-you-mean dept. “Google on Thursday released Chrome version 25 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. While Chrome 24 was largely a stability release, Chrome 25 is all about features, including voice recognition support via the newly added Web Speech API...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, SECURITY, Technicals
Dell can trump Cisco in the information-technology security market, say Dell’s executives in describing how the company with its multifaceted approach will hold an edge against some powerful rivals that also include HP and IBM. Cisco is a great competitor, but...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
Jean-Ian Boutin, who works for AV firm Eset, has discovered trojans that carry a valid digital signature. This potentially allows online banking spyware to pass superficial tests as harmless. Apparently, the certificate in question was issued by the DigiCert...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, SECURITY
Escalating current events that involved several series of emergency patches and intrusions into prominent companies have slightly distorted our view of the bigger picture: it appears that companies are being spied on with a high degree of technological effort –...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the call-the-internet-police dept. Recently, I had found out (through my log files) that my wireless router was subject to a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) brute force PIN attack. After looking on the Internet and discovering that there are indeed many...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 15, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY, Technicals
from the no-more-flash-or-java-in-fighter-jets dept. Last night before the State of the Union speech, President Obama signed an executive order for improving cybersecurity of critical infrastructure (PDF). The highlights of the order are: ‘information sharing...
