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With San Diego Comic Con quickly approaching, everyone is jumping on board the superhero bandwagon. Today even McAfee has joined the hype. (The company, not the man, however, we'd love to see a comic book based on John McAfee!) In a press release, the anti-virus company released its second annual list of superhero searches that lead to bad links, viruses,
World Pride is unlikely to be a name that you've heard of, but once you see a few of their gadgets in the video, you'll recognise them from the gadget stores and catalogues. Jeffrey and Jamie chat with Jim. The team at World Pride visit factories in Asia and try to spot cool gadgets that haven't yet made it to
Digital security firm Sophos today released their Security Threat Report for 2011, which reviews all the ways that the bad guys are out to get you. It's a glossy 52 page report and is worth a quick read to understand the threats that are out there, especially in areas that you might not be familiar with. The report covers the
This weekend I had to fix my dad's computer after it got a Scareware popup. This Scareware was rather different than anything I'd approached before; when the popup appeared asking him to purchase via credit card some bogus software to "fix" his viruses, it also locked up his programs so that nothing else would work. He couldn't open his virus
I am installing the latest version of Digsby and am shocked that the application is asking me to install a number of highly intrusive plugins with the install.
Imagine a day where everything you do everything you access is spied upon either by Google or Microsoft. We know Google has a pretty good head start but not wanting to be left behind Microsoft has applied for a patent that is so over the top even I am having a hard time comprehending why they would do this.
Let me run this scenario by you. You subscribe to an influential newsletter that cost nearly a $1000.00 a year for the subscription. The Newsletter gets delivered digitally. Sounds reasonable so far doesn’t it? Well let’s assume that you open your newsreader today to find out that the person who you get that newsletter from has also distributed Spyware to