Yesterday, a client got infected with some malware after visiting what should have been a safe website. I ran through the usual routine of deleting the malicious files in the Temporary Internet Files folder and scanning with MalwareBytes. The scan found and cleaned up about 8 objects and the annoying scareware was gone upon restarting. Unfortunately, pop-unders were showing up … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
World IPv6 Day Starts… Now!
For the next 24 hours, it is World IPv6 Day. IPv6 is the latest version of the Internet Protocol, which allows computers to communicate on a network or the Internet, the largest network. World IPv6 Day is an event where some of the largest organizations on the Internet are participating in an 24-hour test flight to turn IPv6 on their main servers. The reasoning behind this is … [Read more...]
RSA Offering To Replace All SecurIDs After March Breach and Attack On Lockheed Martin
In the middle of March, RSA detected a cyber attack on its systems and found that information related to their SecurID two-factor authentication system had been taken. This information seems to be a "skeleton key" to the whole system and the hackers are using this information to take down organizations that use RSA SecurID. Some of these organizations include major US … [Read more...]
At Sony’s E3 Keynote Speech, PlayStation Vita Introduced
Beyond a quick apology for the PSN outage and announcing some upcoming game titles, the big part of Sony's E3 Keynote was introducing the PlayStation Vita. While it was previously code-named NGP, Next-Generation Portable, to follow in the steps of the PSP, the specs were detailed in the rest of the keynote and on the PlayStation Blog shortly afterwards. … [Read more...]
Apple’s PhotoStream Match in the iCloud [comic]
At Apple's conference yesterday, Jackie Chan's Uncle's "one more thing" was the $25/year iTunes Match which upgrades music quality and compares your non-iTunes purchased music to hashes of music already on the server, saving you from having to upload the song. The Brads webcomic dares to dream if this is also how photo storage works. Go read the rest of the comic How Photos … [Read more...]