Archive for the 'News' Category
Iran – Blocking the Internet (Part 1)
The move has become standard for those who wish to curb information that is uncensored and raw from getting out onto the internet but law makers are seeing this as the true gagging of the freedom of speech. Pakistan has done so in the past week and Iran has announced that it will do so [...]
Read More..>>Stay Off Social Networking Sites
For the umpteenth time, when will people ever learn that social networking sites are a big pain when it comes to possible identity theft. The case involves FaceBook (again and again and again) where hackers offer a download of some free game along in their pages or some other pages they have already hacked into [...]
Read More..>>Anti-virus flaws Leave Holes in PC Security (Part 3)
Scripts are some of the hardest ones to crack for they are part of the full internet experience, for they make some of the seemingly magical behavior of your browser possible. Remembering usernames and passwords, knowing which pages you often visit and even track your online purchases so your browser knows which products you prefer [...]
Read More..>>Anti-virus flaws Leave Holes in PC Security (Part 2)
Well an anti-virus software is as the name says a software product that was programmed by some of the greatest human minds (sometimes by hacker themselves for they know how the system works) as a way of countering the millions of threats (viruses, Trojan horses and many other forms of malware) out in the internet [...]
Read More..>>Anti-virus flaws Leave Holes in PC Security (Part 1)
The internet is a very dangerous place to be without protection from the thousands of threats that are out in the wild (the term “wild” is a technical term for running malware that is wreaking havoc on computers connected to the internet) and even with some of the best software comes risks. In the BlueHat [...]
Read More..>>The Internet on the verge of Collapsing (Part 3)
Satellites were tried but they had a lot of problems so the best way is still with land-borne transmission methods. From relays, switches to routers to all the various parts, they are ageing at a fast pace that the technology and amount of users last year have increased so much that another capacity change is [...]
Read More..>>The Internet on the verge of Collapsing (Part 2)
The very scientists who formed it decided it was good for sending information to a lot of people and it was faster that next day door to door and in no time, the internet was born. Internet simply means an interconnected network that is formed by thousands upon thousands of networks that are interconnected to [...]
Read More..>>The Internet on the verge of Collapsing (Part 1)
We all love the internet, we work, live and do everything on it that we cannot live a day without using it. Well then here’s a shocker people, for according to experts from Cisco, the internet has two years to live due to ageing equipment that is in need of a major overhaul. You might [...]
Read More..>>Court Finds Contractor Guilty of Identity Fraud (Part 1)
A defense contractor has been charged and found guilty of selling a thumb drive containing names and Social Security information of around 17,000 military personnel for $500.00. The good news, the guy who bought the information was part of a special FBI task force that was entasked of finding such activities. What does that have [...]
Read More..>>Diet and Exercise App to Use Cloud-based Mobile Service
A plethora of applications have been developed to cater to the numerous needs and wants of customers all over the world. The Internet, of course, plays a central role to the development and implementation of these applications. While some of the apps can be pretty mundane, there are lots of interesting and unique ones out [...]
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