I've written another guest article over at FreewareGenius. This one details Minitool Power Data Recovery Free Edition, a tool that allows you to unerase files and recover them from malfunctioning drives. Read the full article at FreewareGenius. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
Google Search Results Redirecting You To Ads? Receiving Popups? You May Have A Rootkit
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...]
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...]