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My dream is to work somewhere that has a blazing fast internet connection. Over at Lucasfilm (you may have heard of Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean), every employee goes buck wild on a 1 gigabit per second connection to a 10 gbps internet backbone. There is an article on CNET this week about […]

You would think that after all these years of fraud and deception on the internet, people would learn not to download suspicious programs. Especially those linked by spammy emails.
Ignorant, naive computer users (I originally typed “stupid,” but then I would be mocking my own mother) in Sweden downloaded a “spam-fighting application” to their PC’s that […]

Starting today, people living in Northeastern Pennsylvania have every reason to change their insurance company to the Blue Cross. Making going to the emergency room more convenient than ever before, Blue Cross members can access their personal health records and fill out hospital-insurance related forms just by tapping a few buttons on their cellphones.
Developed by […]

If you are a Penn State student, you would have to be blind and deaf in both ears to be oblivious to the significance of February 1st. Does this phrase sound familiar to you at all: “Time is running out… have you changed your password yet?”
Every human being in the Penn State system must change […]

Microsoft is unleashing Windows Vista tomorrow. Will you be one of the thousands of Windows fanatics lining up like lemmings at Best Buy to have first dibs on the new cutting-ege operating system?

Vista claims hardened security, prettier graphics and a bunch of annoying copyright restrictions.
I’m getting a copy of Home Premium now only because a […]

Silicon Valley will soon be an antiquated term. Intel is developing the next generation of computer chips using hafnium. This new chemical element will allow computer chips to be much smaller and faster than its silicon counterparts.
You are probably familiar with Moore’s Law, which claims the computer industry progresses at such a rapid rate that […]

Someone is hacking your business through a device on your network that you would never suspect. Can you guess what that is?
Printers have evolved into increasingly intelligent machines with their own operating systems and server softwares.
A Computerworld article explains how the Blaster worm thrashed the McCormick and Co. company’s entire network through its printers. None […]

There is no such thing as “hack-proof digital media,” and the recent cracking of the HD and Blu-ray DVD formats proved this once again. The copy protection in both technologies were supposed to prevent discs from being copied and pirated ever again.
Both HD and Blu-ray use a copy protection scheme called Advanced Access Content System […]

You are probably familiar with the public lists of sex offenders available online for everyone’s eyes. These posterboards of shame serve as a powerful deterrence to committing rape and molestation. Shame is menacing enough to curb a criminal’s actions.
The web community is adopting a similar technique to fight hackers. A team called the Web Honeynet […]

There’s a virus going around that sends the following message to everyone in your address book:
http://www.ghidul-universitatilor.ro/?5695
When the unsuspecting victim clicks on the link, the virus hijacks his email account and, in turn, propagates the email message to everyone on his email list.
A social engineering method like this is particularly effective because the recipient trusts the […]