Is it safe to go Home?
I love my GPS and use it whenever I’m going to a new place. Last night I had to go photograph a band at a small club in San Francisco so I programmed the address into my GPS. I also…
GNC-2009-05-15 #477 Monster Show Longest of the Year
Monster Show tonight longest of the year audio comments and e-mails are flooding in keep it up. Voice Mail hotline is +1-619-342-7365 or email geeknews@gmail.com. Apologies on the last shows Audio it is squared away tonight. Jet Lag got the…
CAPTCHA on a Router?
D-Link has created the first router that makes you answer a CAPTCHA word before you can do anything on the router. It’s an interesting idea – you change the IP address, you add a CAPTCHA. It does thwart Bots from…
Taking down 100,000 computers with a single command!
This is what happened to computers infected with the Zeus/Zbot. The creator of the botnet built into the malware a Kill switch that causes the infected computer to “BSOD” The botnet owner executed that Kill command recently essentially killing over…
Real or Imagined Threats?
Some news reports out today are leading the public to believe that the April 1st threat of Conficker has been a whole lot of nothing. Yes, the worm had a trigger date to take over machines on the 1st, and…
Welcome to the Real World!
I can just hear them screaming at the top of their lungs. Imagine going from having your iPhone, Mac or Updated PC and having access to every program under the sun to walk into the White House to find Windows…
Getting scammed, old school
I thought that the good old chain letter was a thing of the past, until I received a letter in the mail today that invited me to participate in a pyramid scam. The scam asked me to send a $10…