Monday, July 14th, 2008
Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach.
But now, researchers at the University of Washington and ...
Posted in Hardware, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve ‘Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia’s networks.’ According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they’re based on plain glass. As said ...
Posted in Hardware, Internet, Networking | No Comments
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
US-CERT and other security experts have warned of a critical design problem affecting all DNS implementations. The Domain Name Service is responsible for converting readable names like www.heise-online.co.uk into the IP addresses that computers can handle, such as 193.99.144.85. DNS is thus the internet equivalent to a phonebook and without ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The disk defragmenter in Windows Vista leaves much to be desired. A couple of months ago, I recommended Auslogics' Disk Defrag as a free alternative. What that program lacks is the ability to defrag just one or a select set of files and folders.
If you use Windows XP, the free ...
Posted in General BS, Windows | No Comments
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Domino's Pizza is to use Voltage Security's Secure-mail encryption package to protect internal and external company e-mails.The move is part of a corporate-wide data loss prevention initiative to avoid accidental loss of private or proprietary information, said Karl Anderson, network security manager for the pizza maker."We realised that e-mails being ...
Posted in General BS, Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
