Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 Popular cloud-storage service Dropbox has updated its terms of service to include a clause that states it will turn your files over to the government--if the government asks, of course.This is nothing groundbreaking, Business Insider points out --it's a fairly common clause that appears in other cloud services' TOS, including ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2011 People wonder if their password is a good password. I often come across two distinct groups of people. The first would fall into a "just use any word" category, which is a very bad practice for picking passwords. The second group will mix in a few numbers in order to ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 We are today proude to announce the release of RawCap, which is a free raw sockets sniffer for Windows.Here are some highlights of why RawCap is a great tool to have in your toolset:Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback)RawCap.exe is just 17 kBNo ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 Dropbox is a popular tool used to sync files between multiple computers and devices that a user owns. A user installs the software, designates a folder to keep syncronized, and is able to access those files among other machines that they own. The tool was even picked as one of ...
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 A new Trojan tries to extort money from users by convincing them to dial international telephone numbers to reactive Windows, a security researcher said today.Once on a PC, the malware displays a message claiming that Windows is "locked" and must be reactivated, said Mikko Hypponen, the chief research officer of ...
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