A special thanks today, to those among us who have served in the armed forces.
Today is a national day of remembrance for those who have fallen in the line of duty while serving our country in the armed forces, and those who lived to tell about it, but have left this world. Take time today to find a veteran or active duty military and thank them for their service.
Continue Reading →Running out of excuses? This handy tool should help. From Pinterest (of course.)
The cyber-criminal underground has found a real moneymaker in the various forms of encryption based ransomware schemes. These exploits turn all your readable work product, your documents, pictures, music and video files, into a collection of encrypted gibberish, and then kindly offers to sell you the decryption key. I recently saw an infographic from Symantec on the Bromium blog that illustrated the problem perfectly.
One of the very worst breaches that can happen to you is for an attacker to be able to access your email account. If someone else can access your email, and read the messages you send and receive, and access your contact list and calendar, then they can learn many personal details about you that would make it easier to steal your identity, access other web accounts using the password reset ...
Its been a while since we have written about AI and robotics, but an article in Tech Republic got me inspired to discuss some of the more disturbing uses of autonomous machines, from least to most scary
Thanks to my uncle Ron Weiss for this one:
They should put Prince on the $20 bill and call it $19.99… It’s “The bill formerly known as a twenty.”
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A recent rule by the Supreme Court has given the FBI authority to hack your computer if it is inadvertently part of a criminal botnet. Recent changes to a procedural rule known as Rule 41 allows the FBI to obtain a search warrant to use “network investigative techniques” or NIT (or more commonly called hacking) to search computers engaged in criminal activity anywhere in the world. This includes innocent computer ...
Windows XP was released on August 24, 2001. It was officially retired by Microsoft two years ago on April 8, 2014. This makes WinXP almost 15 years old, which in operating system years is about 500 years old. Sophos reported:
Continue Reading →“Windows XP was still running on 10.9% of all desktops as of March 2016, according to stats compiled by Net Applications.
To put that in perspective, according to Net Applications’ figures, Windows XP is ...
You took the red pill, and now you want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. You spend a lot of time on computers, and use them for things that your friends think are odd. You are on your third Raspberry Pi project. You are running Linux on at least one computer. Now you want to learn the light and dark arts ...
