How To Get Refunded on Prepackaged Vista

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Buying a PC can come along with some unwanted preinstalls. And now with Microsoft mandating that third party hardware manufacturers bundle Vista (not XP), that unwanted preinstall can include an entire OS. Given that a portion of any commercial PC's purchase price includes funds allotted to software, XP users may ...

Social Engineering 101: Mitnick and other hackers show how it’s done

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Kevin Mitnick knows that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information. As a young fugitive hacker, he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of ...

A free utility lets you defrag files singly or in bunches

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

The disk defragmenter in Windows Vista leaves much to be desired. A couple of months ago, I recommended Auslogics' Disk Defrag as a free alternative. What that program lacks is the ability to defrag just one or a select set of files and folders. If you use Windows XP, the free ...

Domino’s Pizza to encrypt emails

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Domino's Pizza is to use Voltage Security's Secure-mail encryption package to protect internal and external company e-mails.The move is part of a corporate-wide data loss prevention initiative to avoid accidental loss of private or proprietary information, said Karl Anderson, network security manager for the pizza maker."We realised that e-mails being ...

PINs stolen from Citibank ATMs

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken. Three people face charges in federal court in New York for allegedly breaking into Citibank's ATM network inside 7-Eleven stores and stealing PIN codes, according to court filings ...