Aaron Barr, former CEO of HBGary Federal before a highly-publicized confrontation with Anonymous, has been mentioned here on 404 Tech Support once or twice (or three or four times) before as part of reporting the news. The security professional recently did an interview with Threatpost at this year's DEFCON hacker conference. He answered five questions to get us caught up. He … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
Adobe Labs Launches Muse Beta To Create Websites Without Needing To Code
Muse (codename) enables designers to create websites as easily as creating a layout for print. Design and publish original HTML pages using the latest web standards, and without writing code. You can find Muse at muse.adobe.com, just click the 'Get Muse' button on the right column. Muse is an Adobe Air app and requires Adobe Air in order to run. It is free until early 2012 when … [Read more...]
Even With Windows XP SP3, I’m “Unable To Access Windows Update Without The Latest Service Pack”
I was creating a new image this weekend for a client and wanted to build it from the ground up so we weren't carrying any old things forward. I installed Windows XP from a Windows XP SP1 CD and installed Service Pack 3 after getting all the drivers installed. Unfortunately when I went to run Windows Update, the most time consuming task of creating the from-scratch image, I was … [Read more...]
Google Gives Android A Shot In The Arm With Acquisition of Motorola Mobility
Google's CEO Larry Page announced a very big acquisition deal this morning - They are in agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility, the handset division of Motorola that was spun-off at the beginning of 2011, for $12.5 billion. In a joint press release coming from Mountain View, California and Libertyville, Illinois, the two companies listed details of the acquisition. Google Inc. … [Read more...]
NPR Asks: Is There A Bandwidth Shortage?
I came into this story halfway through on my way to work yesterday morning and given the topic, my ears perked up and I had to find the rest of the segment I had missed. You can listen to the story or read the transcript on NPR.org Is There A Bandwidth Shortage?. Movie and video streaming are Internet gas guzzlers. They account for a huge growing amount of traffic on the … [Read more...]