by Joseph Forbes | Mar 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
from the and-it-can-be-yours-for-free dept. UEFI guru Matthew Garrett, who cleared the Linux kernel in Samsung laptop bricking issues, has come to rescue beleaguered users by offering a survival guide enabling them to avoid similar issues. According to Garrett,...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 24, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, MONEY, POLITICAL, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the man-vs-the-states dept. passed a nonbinding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within their borders. The proposal was an amendment to a 2014 budget bill that the Senate debated Friday. It was pushed by...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 22, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Cloud-based subscription service for Office 365 Home Premium offers good value and convenience Microsoft has been dishing out various flavors of Office 2013 since November 2012, when enterprises with volume license plans got first access to the finished software. In...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 22, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals
It appears that iOS 6.1.3 presents yet another opportunity for attackers to bypass the passcode lock and access the telephone app – which includes information such as the user’s call history and address book data and allows intruders to open the photo gallery...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 20, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY, Technicals
Black Hat Europe: Trend Micro’s SCADA experiment finds 17 targeted attacks, mainly from China, US, Laos An experiment in which a Trend Micro researcher set up two instances of an Internet-based simulation of an industrial-control system (ICS) for a nonexistent...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | DATA, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals
Support for Windows 7 will continue until 2020, but only if the latest Service Pack has been installed. Where this is not the case, support will end at Microsoft’s next Patch Day on 9 April 2013. The company has therefore notified users that, with immediate...
