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 4, 2013 | Blog Entry, HEALTH
If America’s shorelines begin shrinking at an alarming rate, it may not be due to global warming. It may just be that we’re so fat we’re in danger of sinking an entire continent. Okay, a hyperbole perhaps, but the report just out, from non-profits Robert Wood...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | NERD NEWS
Mobile devices like the iPhone 5 are embracing the 5GHz band, and that trend will expand as 802.11ac radios become prevalent even on smartphones starting in 2013. The FCC announced a New Year’s Wi-Fi gift during the International CES show earlier last month: a...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | Blog Entry
If you like to pay with plastic at your local department store or independent retailer, get ready: you may be subject to new credit card fees up to 4% of your transaction. A recent legal battle between credit card companies and a group of retailers has ended, and 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 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the we-enjoy-taking-your-money dept. Joel Runyon recounts a tale that will be familiar to many people who have bought secondhand smartphones. After his old dumbphone died a few months ago, Runyon picked up a used iPhone. He just needed it for basic phone...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | HACKING
In its report of an attack by Chinese hackers on the paper, the New York Times stated that the anti-virus software it employed only detected one strain of malware among a list of 45 different malicious programs. The New York Times used anti-virus software by Symantec...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Web Hosting
from the just-because-you’re-paranoid-doesn’t-mean-they-aren’t-after-you dept. Last week the CEO ServiceNow made a minor splash by claiming that it was awfully easy for a cloud provider to spy on the data they stored for you or discriminate based on...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the your-curtains-are-ugly dept. Eighteen brands of security camera digital video recorders are vulnerable to an attack that would allow a hacker to remotely gain control of the devices to watch, copy, delete or alter video streams at will, as well as to use the...
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...
