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 | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
The installation, care, and feeding of an Apache Web server is not terribly difficult, but can seem so if you haven’t ventured into those particular waters before. This quick-start guide will help you get your feet wet with Apache on a Linux server. You’ll...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
from the much-lower-than-expected dept. In a project that found more than 80 million unique IP addresses responding to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) discovery requests, researchers at Rapid7 were shocked to find that somewhere between 40 and 50 million of those are...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | NERD NEWS, Technical Support
from the making-the-best-of-it dept. “New video card launches from AMD and NVIDIA are almost always reviewed on hardware less than 12 months old. That’s not an arbitrary decision — it helps reviewers make certain that GPU performance isn’t held back...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
It is now illegal under federal law to unlock your cell phone without permission from your wireless carrier. Here’s a quick guide to answer all your why, how, and WTF questions. As of today, it is illegal to unlock your new smartphone. This rule, issued by the...
by Joseph Forbes | Dec 30, 2012 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support
As an official patch is yet to become available, Microsoft has released a temporary Fix-it tool to close a critical security hole in its Internet Explorer web browser. According to a blog post by Yunsun Wee, Trustworthy Computing Director at Microsoft, the company...
