According to a recently published report from GFI Network and Security Solutions, based on data gathered from the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD), Windows is not the most vulnerable operating system. Which is? Read on to find out. GFI reports an increase of just over […]
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Another new SmartPhone app out there that is getting mixed reviews…. a look at NameTag: http://www.nametag.ws/ Picture this… You are walking your dog at a local park on a Saturday morning, minding your own business and waiting for your dog to do their business. All of
I reckon it depends on your definition of cheating and to put your mind at rest, I’m not banging on about two-timing your girlfriend, keeping a mistress in a love nest or falsifying your tax return. Having said that, in certain countries such as France
Google Earth. It’s one of those programs that inspires awe and continues to amaze me. Many hours can be spent within this gorgeous interface for both education and entertainment. You won’t be disappointed. Google has always provided a free version but now they have done
If you employ Styles in your Word 2010 document (and I hope you do!), and have your document organized with headings defined by Word, you can use the Outline view to move through your document. For example, suppose you have a rather large document and
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Following fellow author Mark Williamson’s exposé of the Superfish adware pre-installed on Lenovo PCs (Lenovo Distributes Adware on New PCs), news is coming to hand of further instances of Superfish-like intrusions. The most concerning aspect of the more recent revelations is that these intrusions are
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Also known as geolocation, this perverse and absurd practice isn’t just confined to The Oscars of course, as anyone who uses Youtube will be painfully aware. I choose Oscar, as in a moment of misguided magnanimity, I acceded to my better half’s request to watch the
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Do you ever look at your browser and think ‘How boring’? Or wish it could do more? If your computer/phone can have all these cool options why can’t your browser? This happens to me every time I open my Google Chrome browser. Me being me, I
Adobe may have attracted a degree of notoriety over its inherently vulnerable software, notably Reader and Flash, but there is no doubting that Photoshop has been and still is a flagship software in its field. Adobe’s Photoshop graphics-editing software was first released 25 years ago,
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~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS GIVEAWAY HAS NOW EXPIRED – The winning name has been drawn, and the winner is: Ron Denno Ron has been notified by email and his brand new Seagate external drive will be posted out to him as soon as we hear back. Congratulations
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In a slightly ‘believable’ turn of events, Lenovo, the world’s No.1 in PC distributions according to Wikipedia have been caught distributing adware on their new laptops, straight out of the box!. The adware, called Superfish, apparently injects third party ads on Google searches and other
Edward Snowden will undoubtedly go down in history as the man who irrevocably changed the world’s perception of online privacy forever. Personally, I think it’s disgraceful that we should even need specific software dedicated to protecting our privacy from snooping governments, advertizing companies, and the
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Continuing from our last chat about When the curtain comes down on your digital life my ole mucka Jim Hillier drew my attention to the fact Facebook now offers a “legacy contact” in which you can nominate someone to look after your Facebook page once you’re
Alcatel-Lucent’s security division, Motive Security Labs, has recently reported a 25% increase in mobile infection rates during 2014. The report estimates that 16 million mobile devices have been infected by malware worldwide, but perhaps the most concerning statistic is that Android devices have now caught
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