Today is World Backup Day. It's just a friendly reminder to make sure all your valuable files, pictures, videos, documents, or whatever are all securely backed up. If it's been a while since the last time you backed up, it's time to copy them to an external drive, burn a DVD, or upload them to an online storage system. You have plenty of options and no excuse to complain when … [Read more...]
BitCoin – A Virtual Currency
What is Bitcoin? From the official site bitcoin.org: Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network. Advantages: Bitcoins can be sent easily through the Internet, without having to trust … [Read more...]
Kingston Warns Certain Solid State Drives Need Firmware Update Or May Face Drive Failure
Kingston is warning customers of some of its Solid State Drives that a technical issue has been discovered that could lead to the drive failing in a small percentage of cases. To address the issue, Kingston recommends all customers of these hard drives upgrade the drive's firmware. The firmware correction is to correct the ssd hanging in the BIOS and boot failure. From … [Read more...]
Amazon Launches Appstore for Android – Free Paid App Every Day
Amazon has launched an Appstore for Android apps. Their unique offering includes a free paid app of the day with today's offering being Angry Birds Rio, exclusively from the Amazon Appstore. Other announcements include that Amazon will sell ad-free versions of Angry Birds. Another feature of the Amazon Appstore includes the ability to Test Drive applications which runs the app … [Read more...]
The Results of Pwn2Own 2011
As previously reported, Pwn2Own took place Wednesday through Friday at CanSecWest this past week. Although, the TippingPoint blog wasn't updated as the source of winners, we can report the browsers or mobile devices that were compromised based on reports coming out of the conference. Browsers "Safari goes down first at #pwn2own" "Stephen Fewer @stephenfewer just successfully … [Read more...]