Here are some especially interesting web sites that I have visited lately, and i thought they were special enough to share.
Norman Bel Geddes was an industrial designer who worked between the two world wars. This site includes his vision for a long distance flying boat that makes the new Airbus look small by comparison. you have to see this one
Interested in improving your mental acuity? Then check out SharpBrains. Brain fitness is emerging as ...
There was a post recently to the StopBadware group by Jart regarding this threat to computer and Internet security. In my Bulletproof Computer Security class, I discuss how the nature of the security threat has moved from loosely knit groups of kiddie scripters and teenage computer crackers to a highly organized and professionally trained cadre of criminal software writers. This post, repeated below, also contains links to articles on BlogSpot and Wikipedia.
Jarts post follows:
http://groups.google.com/group/stopbadware/browse_frm/thread/f6d908519cc04432?hl=en
I hope ...
Sony has done plenty of damage to its already tarnished reputation for going with proprietary formats that ultimately fail (Betamax, BluRay?), and for hardware issues (flaming laptop batteries), and security issues (CD rootkit scandal). Now they are at it again, putting a rootkit on a USB key drive. See the following article.
Nutshell, Finnish security company F-Secure has reported to have found software with rootkit-like behaviour supplied with Sony USB sticks with a built-in fingerprint reader.
"The Sony MicroVault USM-F fingerprint ...
(From PC Magazine) Kaspersky is one of the leading anti-virus companies, and in June they released their ranking for the top 10 best (or worst) malicious software designs of the year.
Lets just say that if you get one of these, you have got a problem!
1. Greediest Trojan targeting banks: Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.aqu, a modification that targets 87 banks simultaneously.
2. Greediest Trojan targeting e-payment systems: Trojan-PSW.Win32.VB.kq, which targets four e-payment systems.
3. Stealthiest malicious ...
Beware e-mails purporting to be an "e-card" from "friends" or "family". If there is not a name of someone you know directly identified in the e-mail, you are being lured into a spam botnet. See the PC Magazine article excerpt below, and click on the link to read the entire article.
Thursday August 23, 2007
Storm Worm Attacks Take On New Disguises
The big effort to build a new botnet these days is through the Storm ...
Here’s an important bit from PC Magazine. Evidently there are
phishing exploits arriving in your e-mail box pretending to be from
GoDaddy, a popular Domain Name Registrar. Do not respond to these
messages, or click on any links in the e-mail. Those of you hosting
with my hosting service, WyzHost, would never get anything from
GoDaddy because I do not use them.
Questions? Call me or drop me an e-mail.
The ...
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I don’t want to get all conspiratorial, but could this be another sick ploy by the RIAA to "deal with" muisc "piracy." Hope not, because this virus attacks legally purchased music in MP3 format as well
From PC Magazine
Monday August 6, 2007
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George Ou from ZDNet has published this excellent article. i followed the directions and achieved a much improved start up and operational environment on my two year old Toshiba laptop.
The article links are below, and I have included a PDF file courtesy of TechRepublic that you can save for your own use.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=547&page=2
How to fully de-gunk a PC of crapware
That pre-bundled software can make your PC sluggish, unstable, and prone to crashes. George ...