Malware has a few different intentions when it infects your computer. It could want to: show you ads to make money (adware) Watch where you go on the web and steal your passwords to either use your accounts for sending out spam or access your bank/credit card account Make you think you have a virus so you pay them to fix it (scareware) Make your computer part of a … [Read more...]
ICANN Votes In Big Changes Coming To Domain Names
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, voted in a pretty big change to domain names at its special session held in Singapore today. They have voted to allow registries to buy and control the top-level domains, or TLDs. Typical TLDs include .com, .net, or .org but after the vote, individuals will be able to apply to run a wide variety of what they want. … [Read more...]
A Rough Road For Bitcoin – Largest Exchange, Mt. Gox, Reports Leaked Account Info and Huge Sell-Off Initiated
At the end of March, I first wrote about Bitcoin, a virtual cryptocurrency with no central management by design. When I wrote about it, you could buy a single bitcoin for about 80 cents. Since then, the value of a bitcoin has skyrocketed to $30USD and stabilized around $16USD as more services and merchants are starting to accept the currency and speculation puts the currency in … [Read more...]
State of Illinois Sued For Unconstitutional “Amazon Tax” Law
I have covered the State of Illinois passing HB3659, commonly referred to as the "Amazon Tax", before the governor signed it and after it was signed into law because it affected me and my income once Amazon disconnected all Illinois-based Amazon Associates. Since then, I've had moderate success regaining that lost revenue stream through other affiliate programs and Skimlinks … [Read more...]
Google Doodle Live Streaming The Total Lunar Eclipse
You can head on over to Google's homepage (classic) and see the phases of the total lunar eclipse as it's happening. It's about half dark right now and can be seen from the other continents besides North America according to the Google blog announcement. Move the slider left-to-right to simulate the eclipse. The interactive footage is coming from the Transformers 3-sponsored … [Read more...]