It is being universally described as “catastrophic” and “the biggest security threat the internet has ever seen”… it is called Heartbleed. Heartbleed – What is it? “Heartbleed” is the name given to a bug recently discovered in a component of the widely utilized OpenSSL open […]
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As the first quarter of 2014 has now drawn to a close, and considering XP’s end of support is nigh, I thought it might be timely to check out current market share figures and see how much things have changed over the past 12 months.
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In today’s world of burgeoning cybercrime, passwords and password security have become critical in the way we protect ourselves online. It’s not too difficult to create a different strong password for each account but it is not so easy remembering them all. This is where
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What Was Your First Tweet? Twitter celebrated the eighth anniversary of the first Twitter message this week by providing a tool to look up your first tweet. If you are on Twitter, you can look up your first tweet (or anyone else’s) with this
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Windows XP’s Fast-Approaching Demise It’s no secret that Windows XP’s life expectancy is a bit grim. April 8th, 2014 is the last breath of life XP will ever see. April 8th is also Patch Tuesday and that’s the breath of life I’m talking about. On
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Amazon Prime Price Going Up If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, you received an email this week announcing that Amazon is raising the price of its popular service to $99. According to Amazon’s website, the price change is set to occur on April 17th.
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A New York federal court has granted permission for the seizure of several domain names, bank funds and social media accounts belonging to the Chinese based company responsible for the DVDFab software. As of now, DVDFab and associated domains are inaccessible. The order was issued
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Samsung Rolls Out Milk Music Samsung is now offering a free radio-streaming service in the U.S. The service, Milk Music, combines content from Slacker Radio with exclusive music deals from artists. Milk Music joins the somewhat crowded music streaming field along with Pandora, Spotify
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Among the many bulletins, RSS feeds, and newsletters I regularly peruse to help keep up with all things internet, is a newsletter called ‘Naked Security’ which is produced by the Sophos Security Company. The Naked Security newsletter recently featured an article which includes “10 top
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Bandwidth Usage and Broadband Caps Our very own Dave Hartsock wrote an article back in 2011 that still makes a lot of sense to me. Some articles seem timeless and this is one of them. You can read “Do Broadband Caps Make Sense” to give
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