by Joseph Forbes | Feb 4, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
from the oh-don’t-you-worry dept. Leading privacy expert Caspar Bowden, warned European citizens not to use cloud services hosted in the U.S. over spying fears. Bowden, former privacy adviser to Microsoft Europe, explained at a panel discussion hosted at the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
First of all, there’s probably no reason to worry about this! There are a number of normal things happening in the background on your home network, out across the internet at large, and between your cable modem and your ISP that make it look like there’s a...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Web Hosting
from the click-here-to-subscribe dept. “Microsoft’s release of Office 2013 represents the latest in a series of makeover moves, this time aimed at shifting use of its bedrock productivity suite to the cloud. Early hands-on testing suggests Office 2013 is...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS
One subscription serves up to five Windows computers Microsoft today rolled out its New Office software, presenting it as a family plan for its Office 365 cloud service for five machines rather than as a download or disk for just one machine. Called Office 365 Home...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the rome-wasn’t-built-in-5-years-either dept. Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed DNS...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS
from the ten-years-warning-insufficient dept. Several major Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom, including BSkyB, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, AAISP and Fluidata, have warned that the adoption of Carrier Grade NAT (IPv4 address sharing) is likely to become...
