ok this is hardly news, but it did catch my eye. Basically this worm is pretty easy to stop. Just have good passwords. No MS vulnerability to worry about, this worm just finds port 3389 open and brute forces a password to get in. once a connection is made, it simply uses the RDP protocols …
No more unrealistic estimations on file operations! its about damn time! For years I’ve sat in awe of the estimated time to copy files as it inexplicably jumped from minutes to hours as it copies files of varying sizes, wondering when i was going to be done. That’s (almost) all going to change, with the arrival …
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I …
There is already a movement to put honeycomb on the Touchpad. Now that HP has discontinued the Touchpad, you can search for one from Walmart and start loading a proper OS. http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=3327 http://touchpadroid.blogspot.com/ Update! ok, by 11:31 on August 24th most retailers are sold out. But it is rumored that another shipment should arrive …
Taken from www.ibtimes.com Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) could lose a major chunk of its revenues by exiting its PC business and closing down webOS, a Wall Street analyst wrote in a note to clients. Wow, the commercials are still playing on the radio and T.V. and the WebOS tablet is dead. HP, im seriously concerned …
Kinda big news, the maker of the popular Droid smartphone, Motorola, is being purchased by Google. Apparently Google needs patents and Motorola has plenty. They also have made of of the best hardware platforms for Google’s Android smartphone software. Motorola owns something like 17,000 patents on mobile phones, and plenty more in the pipeline. Larry …
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/92370-4g-and-cdma-reportedly-hacked-at-def-con Ill write more later.. it seems this may be legit.. if so I wonder which 4g was hacked… Update, apparently this has now been confirmed by a second source, still no word of which 4g this affects.. Also no word from the carriers yet. I would say that this is not good news …
Oh, Ping of Death.. just saying it brings back old memories. This was one of the first exploits i had a lot of fun with in class. sending ping’s to other classmates and watching the Windows NT computer blue screen and reboot. good times…. good times…. for a more technical understanding of the history of …
I’ve long preached about the false sense of security Mac users have and how this assumption that they do not need to consider security could end up with users being compromised. Certainly as user acceptance grows and Apple gains market share, this would only increase. Other factors to consider is the lack of enforcement and …
Page Speed, the Web Performance Tool and Apache module Google has launched a CDN (Content Delivery Network) and right now its free! I havent had a moment to test with all the work here @ epic and burning the midnight oil for Digital Physician going live in a week. But i thought someone may be …