WyzGuys Tech Talk

I have already posted the truly frightening story about how Mat Honan had his identity stolen and the criminals used his accounts to wipe his Apple laptop, iPad, and iPhone and hack his Twitter account for spamming.

PCWorld has a terrific article on how to harden your own security environment to prevent the same thing from happening to you.  Some of the great ideas are summarized below, but I recommend that you take a minute to read ...

This is a great and very funny video featuring two puppets who explain Spam in a way anyone can understand…and enjoy!.

I read a disturbing article on Tech Republic about how the advent of polymorphous and encrypted malware programs are making traditional signature based anti-virus products ineffective.  Basically, malware writers are using sophisticated encryption techniques to keep their products from being detected, and are writing them in such a way that the encryption key is unique for every computer that it installs itself on.

Traditional anti-virus programs rely on something called signatures.  A signature is basically a uniquely identifying ...

So if you are wondering if Windows 8 is for you, or if you want to know what is different in Windows 8, take 30 minutes to watch this video from Tek Syndicate on YouTube.

I am still trying to figure out if Windows 8 is the “next big thing” or if it will suffer the fate of Windows Vista.  It is a major change in the user experience.  Not more start button and task bar.

On the plus side, ...

A rather poorly written malware application for Apple equipment has been offered for sale on the Internet by malware writers who hope to sell it to other cyber-criminals.  once installed on your Mac, it sets up a connection with a server in the Netherlands, which provides remote access, command and control functions.  It also looks through the password cache of your web browsers, looking for passwords to your online accounts.  For a more complete report see the article on Continue Reading →

Looking for a quick guide to the new Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android?  Here is a great sheet sheet from ITWorld.  For a longer, more in depth article, click here.  They cover Home Screen and Navigation, Notifications, Apps and app management, Settings, Search and voice control, Text input, File management and sharing, the sheet sheet, and an image gallery.  Take a look!

In an article post from Tech Gurus’ Moyo Ogunjale, where he discusses the issue of searching the deep web or hidden web, he goes into some detail on how to use the TOR Network not only to search for the hidden web, to to communicate anonymously online.

The TOR network stands for The Onion Router, and is named presumably because as you peel back the layers looking for the identity of the user, you just get another layer.  The ...

Brian Lett, president of SOSComplete LLC, has shared a terrific video course called My Market Magnet on a technique he says will get you first place on Google in as little as 30 days.  While I can’t vouch for that, I did spend about an hour or so taking the video course and I really liked what he shared.  While much of this for me was a review, there were many ideas that were new to ...