Monday, July 21st, 2008
Buying a PC can come along with some unwanted preinstalls. And now with Microsoft mandating that third party hardware manufacturers bundle Vista (not XP), that unwanted preinstall can include an entire OS. Given that a portion of any commercial PC's purchase price includes funds allotted to software, XP users may ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Kevin Mitnick knows that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
As a young fugitive hacker, he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken.
Three people face charges in federal court in New York for allegedly breaking into Citibank's ATM network inside 7-Eleven stores and stealing PIN codes, according to court filings ...
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