by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the watch-what-you-click dept. The popular belief is that security risks increase as the user engages in riskier and shadier behavior online, but that apparently isn’t the case, Cisco found in its 2013 Annual Security report. It can be more dangerous to...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 1, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the touch-makes-life-more-bearable dept. The Register tells us that Microsoft has begun squabbling with PC manufacturers over the reasons behind the failure of Windows 8. Microsoft is ‘frustrated with major OEMs who didn’t build nearly enough touch...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog Entry
For individuals, there is no one answer when it comes to buying or renting Office. Let’s take a look at the options For the first time Microsoft is tempting Office users to rent, not own, software that for decades they’ve bought as a standalone program....
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 | HAPPINESS
Most career problems stem from the fact that we are terrible at picking jobs. We think we are picking a good job and then it turns out to be a bad job. It’s almost impossible to pick a good job on the first try, actually. So don’t think you’ll be the...
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 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the power-to-the-people dept. Now that the ridiculous phone unlocking law is a done deal, and we all understand exactly what that means (i.e., ‘fines of up to $500,000 and imprisonment of up to five years’), you might be left wondering what can you do...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog Entry
Modern operating systems randomise all memory addresses (Address Space Layout Randomisation). Libraries loaded into memory, for example, are loaded into memory with random offsets. The result is that simply discovering a buffer overflow in a browser and so...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS
One subscription serves up to five Windows computers Microsoft today rolled out its New Office software, presenting it as a family plan for its Office 365 cloud service for five machines rather than as a download or disk for just one machine. Called Office 365 Home...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
In a few weeks the MPAA, RIAA and five major U.S. Internet providers will start to warn BitTorrent pirates. The parties founded the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are told that their behavior is...
