Friday, April 24th, 2009 I just noticed this today but it looks as though the Disk Defragmenter in Windows Vista is scheduled to run once a week by default.Personally, I think that with these newer and more efficient operating systems, not to mention the growing sizes of hard drives, that this is completely overkill. ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Hackers have crossed into new frontiers by devising sophisticated ways to steal large amounts of personal identification numbers, or PINs, protecting credit and debit cards, says an investigator. The attacks involve both unencrypted PINs and encrypted PINs that attackers have found a way to crack, according to the investigator ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Panda, an antivirus software company, has a new free Panda USB Vaccine available for download that can disable the Windows Autorun feature for an entire PC or a particular USB drive.The Autorun feature in Windows can make it easier to install software - and it can also be exploited by ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Researchers at DroneBL have spotted signs of a stealthy router-based botnet worm targeting routers and DSL modems.The worm, called “psyb0t,” has been circulating since at least January this year, infecting vulnerable embedded Linux devices such as the Netcomm NB5 ADSL modem (above) and launching denial-of-service attacks on some Web sites.Some ...
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Apply all of the browser, application and OS patches you want, your machine still can be completely and silently compromised at the lowest level--without the use of any vulnerability.That was the rather sobering message delivered by a pair of security researchers from Core Security Technologies in a talk at the ...
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