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Last week on Safer Internet Day, Microsoft promoted steps to take to improve safety on their personal computers and mobile devices. You can find the 2012 Microsoft Computing Safety Index from Microsoft's Safety & Security Center. The 2012 report adds mobile devices to the report. The survey was conducted across 20 countries/regions and the global average was the same as … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2013
F-Secure Threat Report – 2nd Half 2012 [infographic]
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With 2012 safely behind us, F-Secure reflects on the second half of the year in malware. They focus on malware, exploits, and botnets with the data prepared in interesting ways, such as a timeline and organized in exploits per country. The year saw ZeroAccess, Zeus, SpyEye, mobile botnets, and many more. With different profits available for infections, many malicious people are … [Read more...]
Nvidia demonstrates the difference in gaming with PhysX and without
Nvidia demonstrated the difference its PhysX capability can make for making a game look much more realistic and impressive. Using the free-to-play game Hawken, a recent blog post demoed the differences quite well. The game uses the Unreal Engine 3 and takes advantage of Nvidia's physics accelerator incorporated in the GeForce cards. A peer to the dedicated graphics card was … [Read more...]
The Pirate Bay AFK documentary now available
The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard documentary that covers The Pirate Bay trial is now available. The release date was to synchronize with a simultaneous release at the Panorama programme at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The movie is available to stream from YouTube or, as only appropriate, torrent from The Pirate Bay. The film was released with a Creative … [Read more...]
Keep track of the free apps and deals from Amazon more easily through RSS
Amazon.com, being a large electronic retailer, is frequently able to offer some great deals and even freebies but usually they are only available for a limited time. To keep up with the deals they offer on Android apps, Kindle books, and MP3s can be quite tedious. If you regularly check an RSS reader for feed updates, it's possible to take advantage of the fact that Amazon … [Read more...]