Adobe released an update to Adobe Flash on Thursday after critical vulnerabilities were identified in the previous version of 10.1.85.3. Common sense and the related Security Bulletin recommended upgrading to the latest version of Adobe Flash, version 10.1.102.64. Upon heading over to the Adobe site, I noticed the site has been a little updated, probably in preparation for the … [Read more...]
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Add A ‘Copy to Clipboard’ Button To WordPress or Any Site
To make the most of having my own URL shortener with YOURLS and having it integrated with WordPress, I wanted to provide each article's short URL for others. My shortened URLs start with 404ts.com and they hopefully make sharing on Twitter, texting, or just remembering how to get back to an article much easier. Just providing the shortened URL could be helpful but are there … [Read more...]
Google E-mails Gmail Users About Buzz Privacy Settlement
Google sent out an e-mail this evening regarding the settlement of a class action lawsuit regarding the loose privacy from their Google Buzz product when it first launched. The e-mail seemed a bit suspicious and likely to be a phishing e-mail upon first impression but appears to be legit. The e-mail originates from noreply-buzz-classaction@google.com. This is not a class … [Read more...]
Snip.ly Allows You To Shorten URLs and Easily Share Sites’ Highlights
Snip.ly, a website currently in alpha, assists in sharing images or selections of text from websites in a very simple manner. Although there are plenty of URL shortening sites out there like Bit.ly, Snip.ly brings the text snipping to the table and it works well. It already has a Chrome extension or can be used through a bookmarklet in other browsers. Working like most other … [Read more...]
A Herculean Effort Against “Cyber Security” Malware in Windows Vista SP1
Last night, I was working on a laptop that was given to me for some freelance tech support with the simple description of "acting like it has a virus and won't connect to the Internet." I got it home and fired up the computer. It definitely had a malware infection but the side effects may have proven to be worse than the actual antivirus. The computer was running Windows Vista … [Read more...]