Adobe released patches for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat bringing the products up to versions 10.0.1, 9.4.2, or 8.2.6 for the three currently supported major versions. For the first time in a long time, Adobe was able to keep their scheduled quarterly updates. Congrats to them on being able to keep ahead of major security exploits making it public. The update does resolve … [Read more...]
Infographic: Inside the Business of Malware
This flowchart shows how individuals or organizations profit out of infecting your computer. Amongst other things, it also shows a few reasons why it is important to clean up your infected computer immediately and change the accounts of any possibly compromised accounts. Check out this infographic from byJess.net. (click for full res image) (via threatpost) … [Read more...]
Avast! Version 6.0 Coming Soon With AutoSandboxing To Further Protect Your Computer
Avast! is my favorite and frequently recommended free antivirus suite. Today, Avast! announced that version 6.0 will be coming soon. With the version update, it's bringing some cool technology with it. Both the free and paid versions will be getting an automatic sandboxing capability with this new version. AVAST Software is including an array of new technologies in its … [Read more...]
Too Long; Didn’t Read Terms and Conditions
Well, here you won't have to read because it's a video blog discussing those Terms and Conditions or Acceptable Use Policies that everybody just clicks through and maybe shouldn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIlTB84-Ho On April 1st this year British video game company Gamestation put a joke clause to their terms and conditions granting them ownership of the soul of those … [Read more...]
The Details on Printers Using Yellow Tracking Dots
I swear I once watched an episode of C.S.I. where the condemning evidence was the little yellow dots that color printers print on every page that allows users to be tracked. Even before that episode though, I felt that the information was common knowledge. The EFF has more details on the printers that do this as part of their Machine Identification Code Technology … [Read more...]