by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the please-see-previous-department-line dept. Recently, an article was posted on Slashdot about the claim that law enforcement made about being frustrated by their inability to decrypt messages using Apple’s iMessage. However, this article on Techdirt...
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 13, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
One patch may be the first ever for Web Apps 2010 Windows 8 and Windows RT are subject to critical vulnerabilities that will be addressed on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday next week, both by virtue of supporting Internet Explorer 10. The bulletin for the...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the but-thanks-for-testing-it dept. Microsoft announced last night that it has stopped pushing a security update originally released on Patch Tuesday because the fix is causing some PCs to blue-screen. Microsoft recommends users uninstall the patch, which is also...
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...
