Tactical Forensics Platform

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Earlier I wrote about my proposed Tactical Network Security Monitoring Platform. Today I finally sat down and installed the operating systems I need on this system to create a portable tactical forensics and investigation platform. I did not want to use my main work laptop for this sort of work ...

Live Mesh Technology Preview Announced

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Today Microsoft is unveiling a technology preview to a really neat new software+services platform called Live Mesh. Live Mesh is a brand new platform that helps your devices act together through the internet enabling users such as you and me to manage, access, and share their files and applications from ...

Yahoo moving to new Web-crawler software

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Yahoo has begun indexing the World Wide Web with its third-generation software, Slurp 3.0, the company said Monday. "With everything now in place, the rollout has officially begun," Sharad Verma and Yoram Arnon said in a posting to Yahoo's search blog on Monday. Unlike top search rival Google, which on Friday revealed ...

Add File types to the Microsoft Outlook Attachment Manager

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Microsoft Outlook categorizes mail attachments into three risk types which are high, medium and low. Outlook uses the default Microsoft configuration to determine if a file poses a high, medium or low risk when the user tries to open the attachment. The file extension .exe for instance poses a high ...

Apple Adds Anti-Hacker Features to QuickTime

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Apple is quietly adding several key anti-hacker security features into its flagship QuickTime media player as part of a deliberate plan to reduce the effectiveness of malicious exploits. The XPMs (exploit prevention mechanisms) have been fitted into the WIndows and Mac OS X versions of QuickTime 7.4.5, a new update that ...

Linux Replacements for Your Favorite Windows Apps

Friday, April 11th, 2008

For many users, getting started with Linux is surprisingly easy. New, friendlier versions of the free operating system, such as Fedora and Ubuntu, feature straightforward menus and automated installations that make switching from Windows to Linux a relatively simple process. But a lot of people who try Linux dump it and ...

Apple Pushes Safari to iTunes and QuickTime Users

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

If you use QuickTime or iTunes on Windows you might have seen something like this lately from your Apple Software Updates applet:

Ad Supported Software is NOT Free

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

One of the things you will hear about spyware is that "it keeps free software free". The spin doctors and apologists go on about how you are able to install software for free because of the advertisements. To hear spyware companies tell it, they sponsor these poor, starving software developers ...

NaDa 0.5

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

NaDa is a new concept. A thought, really. It is very light : 1 byte. It doesn't take long to fetch. It doesn't take long to understand. It doesn't disturb your habits nor does it makes you feel insecure. It is a reassuring piece of software that does nothing, and ...

24 Microsoft products you can try for free!

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Check out the following trial versions of Microsoft products-including trial versions of the latest games, personal finance software, reference products, Web publishing tools, and more! Depending on the trial, you can choose to download the trial for free straight from the Web, or order the CD-ROM for a nominal shipping ...