by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog Entry
Extensions are an amazing way to customize your Chrome experience, but some of them ask for a lot of data for no apparent reason. I talked with programmer Joe Flores and Meldium co-founder Boris Jabes to get insight into how permissions work, and see if it’s...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
We recently came across the file 1ac150ddb964722b6b7c96808763b3e4d0472daf during the course of regular research. We detect this file as Trojan:Win32/Preflayer.A. The file had been distributed with the file name FlashPlayer.exe and not surprisingly, when executed, it...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
The Distributed Computing & Security research team at the University of Hanover in Germany has implemented a browser encryption test page that analyses the way in which an HTTPS connection is established. One of the things it demonstrates is the accessing...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
An early build of Microsoft’s big Windows 8 update has hit the web After an abundance of rumors, whispers, and slip-ups in job postings, we now have more concrete evidence of Microsoft’s secretive Windows Blue operating system: An honest-to-goodness leak...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the what’s-to-blame dept. Despite the headlines, the big denial of service attack may not have slowed the Internet after all. The argument against the original claim include the fact that reports of Internet users seeing slowdowns came not from service...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it’s hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least have it installed on their computers. But how close is...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices
The security presentation had a provocative title Source: Uli Ries At the Black Hat Europe conference that is currently in progress, Russian security expert Nikita Tarakanov has presented the results of his analysis of the driver software that Huawei ships with its...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, ENTERTIANMENT, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, TECHNOLOGY
NBC Universal is one of the copyright holders involved in the “six strikes” copyright alert system but the warnings it sends out to subscribers of non-participating ISPs stand in stark contrast to the educational approach of the program. A threatening email warns the...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 28, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS
Yes, Google Reader is going away, and yes, there are great alternatives. However, if you’re tired of web services shutting down on you, why not take matters into your own hands? Tiny Tiny RSS is a free, open-source syncing RSS platform with more features than...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the reducing-complexity dept. In what I see as a refreshing change, T-Mobile, the fourth largest carrier in the U.S., has made sweeping changes to its service, ending both phone subsidies and service contracts. Its CEO said, ‘Here’s the deal: If we...
