Chrome is Number One, and For Good Reasons. The debate about which internet browser is the best has essentially ended. Personal preferences aside, the consensus among most casual users as well as developers is that Chrome, the Google-backed browser, is number...
Microsoft Extends Antimalware Updates for Windows XP Until July 2015. Windows XP, despite its age in the software ecosystem, still controls nearly 30% of worldwide operating system share distribution. Microsoft announced several months back that it will cease...
Target estimates 1 in 5 Americans may be affected by recent security breach. In mid-December Target disclosed that hackers broke into the company’s computer system and stole several millions of its members’ personal information. A month later and Target has...
A number of Linksys and Netgear DSL modems have been found to be exploitable via a simple hole in the components’ firmware. How Was This Discovered? Eloi Vanderbeken recently took up the task of reverse engineering his Linksys WAG200G wireless DSL gateway’s firmware. ...
Quickly Check If You're Email Was Breached. Recently, eight major websites have had security breaches where attackers got access to user's email addresses, user names, passwords and various other personal information. Some of the sites include: 152,445,165 Adobe...
Office 365 Users: Hack Vulnerability. Noam Liran, the chief software architect at Adallom, recently detected a flaw in Microsoft Office 365 which can easily expose account credentials through Word Documents that are hosted on a webserver which is currently invisible...
What exactly are Bitcoins? Bitcoins are a digital currency that can be transferred securely between any two people in the world. Think of it as electronic cash that you can use to buy goods and services. Ultimately, a bitcoin is a number associated with an address....
It has been reported recently that Microsoft will be ending its retail sales of Windows 7. The customers who want to install Windows 7 on their present computers after this deadline may be out of luck. From 30th October, 2014, you will not be able to buy pre-loaded...
How To Manage Startup Programs. In the never ending battle to keep your computer running quickly and smoothly, one of the less obvious culprits are the programs that start each time you start your computer. Most if not all programs load in the background so you don't...
Anti-Virus Updates Ending for Windows XP. In our previous article on Microsoft ending support and updates for Windows XP, we described what made Windows XP so commonly used and the dangers of continuing to run it after April of 2014. Microsoft has put another nail in...