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- Krebs on Security
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- Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims
- Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years
- FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data
- Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme
- Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?
- Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak
- Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Install Windows from a USB Drive
Here’s a great app to make a bootable installation from your USB Drive. Link
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Share Information with Your CellPhone
The internet is crossing over with the medical field, school, jobs and a dozen other various ways including cellphones. Phonevite can be used in many ways to communicate across different forms of communication (iPhones, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and others) . When do … Continue reading
Diigo Takes Web 2.0 To A New Level
Diigo is a Web 2.0 tool that allows you to highlight, bookmark, annotate and use the web like never before. Diigo allows you to collaborate the information that you find. Check out this demo.
Share a File with spread-it
Spread-It allows for up to a 500mb file upload and emails a link to the intended recipient. Link -dbabian
Hijack any iPhone
Evidently there is a flaw in the texting on iPhones that allow an attacker to totally control the phone. Link orginial posts -Forbes – Yahoo – Bill Mullins
Marshal8e6 Releases New Intelligent Email Encryption Service – DarkReading
Marshal8e6 Releases New Intelligent Email Encryption Service – DarkReading Shared via AddThis
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Rogueware On A Roll: 640,000 New Variants Of Fake AV In Q3 – DarkReading
Rogueware On A Roll: 640,000 New Variants Of Fake AV In Q3 – DarkReading See are articles posted this week on FAKE anti-virus information. Don’t click on any apparent software that warns you that you are infected if you did … Continue reading
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See if Your Identity has been stolen or sold
This webste offers an excellent database to see if you are at risk for data or identity theft or if your information was sold. Link Your information is verified to see if you are at RISK. You will receive two … Continue reading
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Researcher Uncovers Massive, Sophisticated Trojan Targeting Top Businesses – Trojan horses/Security – DarkReading
Researcher Uncovers Massive, Sophisticated Trojan Targeting Top Businesses – Trojan horses/Security – DarkReading Shared via AddThis
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Google Safe Browsing Feature Could Compromise Privacy – DarkReading
Google Safe Browsing Feature Could Compromise Privacy – DarkReadingResearcher RSnake has discovered that Google’s anti-malware and anti-phishing features for Chrome and Firefox tracks information about user’s browsing habits Shared via AddThis
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PRTG Network Monitoring
PRTG Network Monitor provides a freeware solution to monitor your network. This solution allows the monitoring only 10 devices. Link
Network Bandwidth Monitoring
As we go thru our networking course, one of the biggest items you need to keep in mind is setting a baseline checking your servers and workstations bandwidth that is being used by your users. This Utility (Networx) is an … Continue reading
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Largest Laptop Harddrive
The largest laptop harddrive? 1 TB of course as of 7/09. Link
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I Wonder…
Every night that I that I turn in, I wonder about my current students and hope that they have the drive and motivation to continue their studies. They compete against some of the most talented people in the world. Although … Continue reading
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Test Your Website’s Response Time
Here’s a few great tools that allow you to test your website’s response time. Link
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Test Your Webserver
This webserver stress test is for IIS 6.0. Link
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The Best Burning software has to be ImgBurn
By far one of the best burning applications available has to be ImgBurn. With ImgBurn, you to: Read – Read a disc to an image file Build – Create an image file from files on your computer or network – … Continue reading
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Antivirus2009 Variant on Video
Here’s a movie of Antivirus2009 (variant). Don’t fall for this if you see this. Reboot Your Computer. IF you are dumb enough to click, download Malwarebytes or SmitFraudFix. Reboot into safe mode. Run these programs several times and you should … Continue reading
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Extortion or Real Advice?
The class has repaired a ton of computers that have every version of Antivirus2009 and every name that could be given to fool the average user. Here’s another to avoid. In order not to get infected, turn your computer off. … Continue reading
Get money for a lot of your old electronics
Get money for a lot of your old electronics. Link
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