Amazon has already started the Black Friday deals as of this morning. Apparently they couldn't wait for the end of the week to start the madness. Fortunately, with online shopping there's a lot less madness or trampling, plus it tends to be quite a bit warmer than standing outside at 5AM. This year's Black Friday has been dubbed Deals Week and runs today, November 22nd, through … [Read more...]
No Autorun – An Open-Source Project To Prevent USB-Based Malware From Spreading
With a number of recent malware infections spreading through the means of social engineering and infected USB drives, there are a few methods available to protect yourself. The most common way that organizations have been protecting themselves from this rising threat is through Group Policy and disabling the autorun/autoplay features of Windows. This makes it a little less … [Read more...]
Adobe Reader X Now Available For Download and Tips on Deploying
Despite Adobe's confusing claims earlier this week that Adobe Reader X (pronounced '10') and Acrobat X being available, the software just now became available for download. They just barely made their "within 30 days" promise from October 18th. You can download this latest version of Adobe Reader from the usual http://get.adobe.com/reader/ site. Unfortunately, the … [Read more...]
Today is National UnFriend Day
Jimmy Kimmel of late-night talk show fame (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) has been running a bit of a campaign in the past few weeks that culminates today. His plan states that he wants to make today a new holiday titled "National UnFriend Day". He wants people to sign onto Facebook and review their friends and remove anybody that they don't really know. National UnFriend Day might be a … [Read more...]
Mozilla Wants To Secure All Browsers With Plugin Check
Mozilla offers an expanded version of the Adobe Flash Player check that you might see after a Mozilla Firefox update but this site covers a number of other plugins and works for more browsers than just Firefox. The Plugin Check site checks at least Adobe Flash, Java, QuickTime, Silverlight, Adobe Acrobat, and many other plugins. It will report the version if it's running the … [Read more...]