Microsoft recently covered its new Cybercrime Center, an effort to advance the fight against cybercrime. The Digital Detectives story helps explain what the Cybercrime Center does and why it is important. It also helps explain various types of cybercrime the new headquarters will be fighting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT488smKxVc Law enforcement agencies are often … [Read more...]
The results of Mobile Pwn2Own 2013
Back in March, the Pwn2Own 2013 contest took place to coincide with CanSecWest. This past week, the second annual Mobile Pwn2Own was held in Tokyo at the PacSec conference. Previous reporting: The results of Pwn2Own 2013 Mobile Pwn2Own 2012 The results of Pwn2Own 2011 HP and other sponsors like Google's Android and Chrome teams along with Blackberry are willing to shell … [Read more...]
Today is Energy Star Day!
Energy Star is a standard for efficient appliances. It was started in the United States by the EPA but has since grown to have an international influence. Energy Star appliances are above and beyond the federal requirements for energy efficiency, saving energy and saving you money. The Energy Star label also saves you time when shopping. The Energy Star information can help … [Read more...]
How to modify the Regular Maintenance scheduled task in Windows 8.1
This morning, my computer was awake and humming though I know for certain that I put it in Sleep mode last night. The computer was updated to Windows 8.1 and I never caught Windows 8 having this behavior. To figure out why the computer was awake, I first checked out the event log. Under the Windows Logs, System I was able to find an event from Power-Troubleshooter. It told me … [Read more...]
Configure Adobe Acrobat and Reader to open PDFs at 100% by default
For years (years!), I have been annoyed by a behavior of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. When you open up a PDF, the viewer will scale the PDF to fit your resolution. On my monitor with 1680x1050 resolution, PDFs would start off zoomed to 174%. On my other monitor with 1920x1200 resolution, documents would start zoomed in to 232%. Every time after opening the PDF, I will click the … [Read more...]