I am currently moving to a new appartment wich is why it have been such a low activity on the blog the past week.
will get more time for the blog when i am done sometime next w...
21.11.10
15.11.10
Microsoft lets Hotmail users set encryption by default
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Hotmail users can set the e-mail service to automatically use https for their sessions.(Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft announced today that it is offering Hotmail users the ability to take advantage of encryption when using the free e-mail service.
To enable full-session HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) for Hotmail you can type in "https://hotmail.com" or set it as the default for e-mail, calendar, and contacts at https://account.live.com/ManageSSL. Previously SSL was only used at the time of sign-in, but now it's available from the start until a user logs off, a Microsoft spokeswoman said.
Also starting today, SkyDrive, Photos,...
Security firms blast Microsoft for free antivirus offer
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Microsoft Security Essentials is being offered as a free download via the Microsoft Update service.(Credit: Microsoft) Two security software makers are complaining about Microsoft using its update service to deliver its free antivirus software to Windows users who don't have such protection on their computers.
No, it's not 1998. And we're talking about allowing customers to choose whether they want the software, rather than bundling a particular browser--say Internet Explorer--on Windows.
Microsoft began making its Security Essentials software available to customers through its Microsoft Update service as an optional download on November...
EU wants stronger online privacy rules
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The European Union wants stronger rules that would give people more control over how their personal information is used by online companies like Google and Facebook.
The EU has directed its European Commission arm to draft proposals for new rules governing online data, looking to address a variety of questions: What happens to your personal data when you board a plane, open a bank account, or share photos online? How is this data used and by whom? How do you permanently delete profile information on social-networking Web sites? Can you transfer your contacts and photos to another service?
The new rules could require online companies...
The sorry state of antivirus software
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I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve come across an ‘expert’ telling some poor soul who’s had their PC trashed by malware that it was all their fault and that the problem could have been easily prevented by installing an antivirus package, and keeping that package up-to-date.
If only life were that simple …
My blogging buddy Ed Bott recently discovered a few malicious files lurking on his system despite having antivirus installed. Now Ed’s a clever guy, so if he can have nasties lurking on his system, that should act as a warning to us all.
Note: Let’s not turn this debate into a Windows vs. Mac vs Linux argument. I’m talking here specifically about security of the Windows platform.Now, I don’t have any specifics on Ed’s setup, but I think that his story serves to demonstrate the...
Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid
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How effective is free antivirus software? I had a chance to see a real, in-the-wild example just this month, and the results were, to put it mildly, unexpected. The bottom line? Microsoft’s free antivirus solution found and removed a threat that two well-known paid products missed. Here are the details. [Update: After I publlished this post, a second example appeared, courtesy of a rogue commenter in the Talkback section. See the results at the end of this post.]
I’ve had Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) installed on my main working PC for most of the past year. Mostly, I use it for real-time protection....
10.11.10
apologies : real life
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i have to apologise but i have to much stuff going on in my life right now so i have not been able to produce any new content on the blog for the past days, i hope i get more time over the weekend
Bee...
6.11.10
Update your programms
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Just a little reminder for the normal Pc user
Take the time tonight and update your software on your computer, Ativirus programs and windows are the most important ones, just used the whole day myself to update what i had. It takes time but its something you NEED TO DO at least once a w...
4.11.10
Study: 92% of U.S. 2-year-olds have online record
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There has been a lot of concern about young people posting too much information about themselves online, but a study commissioned by security company AVG found that 92 percent of U.S. children have some type of online presence by the time they are 2 years old. A third of U.S. mothers posted pictures of newborns, and 34 percent of U.S. moms said they had posted sonograms of their as-yet unborn child.
The study, conducted by Research Now, surveyed 2,200 mothers with young children in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan during the week of September 27. American parents, according to the study, are more likely to share baby pictures and information online than parents from other countries in the survey. Seventy-three...
Study: 359 Android code flaws pose security risks Read more
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0diggsdigg Coverity tallied various flaws in Android 2.2 that can lead to security vulnerabilities.(Credit: Coverity) Coverity, a company with tools to check for programming problems that pose security risks, has found 359 of them in a scan of the Android source code.
There are 88 high-risk problems and 271 medium-risk problems in the source code underlying the Android kernel used in HTC's Incredible phone, the company said Tuesday. Android uses the Linux kernel, but the Android-specific components have a higher defect rate than mainstream Linux, Coverity said.
Some good news for Google, though, is that the defect rate is still lower...
Controlling where Facebook Places puts you
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Users can disable the ability of friends to check them into places.(Credit: Facebook) In designing its new Places geolocation service, Facebook seems to have learned from its past privacy blunders. The new service has multiple layers of privacy control, but as with other aspects of Facebook privacy, users need to put some thought about whether and how they want to disclose their location. Facebook has also created an extra level of privacy for its under-18 users, prohibiting them from displaying their location to anyone other than their friends.
The first thing to know about Places is that it's not fully automatic. You have to "check...
3.11.10
Supreme Court weighs law on violent video games
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Over the last decade or two, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly extended the First Amendment's formidable legal shield to the Web.
In 1997, the justices tossed out the Communications Decency Act, saying Congress could not outlaw making "indecent" material available on the Internet. Last year, the law's benighted successor met the same fate, as did a law targeting animal cruelty videos that the court rejected in April.
Today the Supreme Court is scheduled to discuss during oral arguments whether to grant video games the same favored kind of laissez-faire treatment.
Unlike those other cases, the law in question is a California statute,...
Man bites dog? Google sues the government
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Google and the U.S. government are headed for a legal showdown, but on different sides of the courtroom than one might expect.
Eric Goldman, a law professor with Santa Clara University who closely follows the tech industry, spotted a lawsuit filed by Google against the federal government claiming that the U.S. Department of the Interior did not properly evaluate Google Apps when choosing a new Web-based document system. Google alleges that because the Interior Department specified that the system needed to be part of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, Google Apps never had a chance despite repeated attempts by Google to explain the product.
"Significantly, the SOW (statement of work) and even certain terminology were closely aligned with Microsoft's product literature for...
2.11.10
Porn maker sues 7,098 alleged film pirates
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n a move sure to outrage both file-traders on BitTorrent networks and legal watchdogs, a well-known pornographer has filed a federal copyright suit against 7,098 individuals.
(Credit: Axel Braun) Axel Braun Productions filed the complaint Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, alleging that the defendants illegally shared the adult film "Batman XXX: A Porn Parody." The film was written and directed by Axel Braun and distributed by Vivid Entertainment, one of the country's best known porn studios.
In an interview about the suit with Xbiz Newswire, a publication that follows the adult-film industry,...
The unvarnished truth about unsecured Wi-Fi
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Chances are you don't leave your front door unlocked. And you shouldn't leave your Wi-Fi network unsecured either.
Many of you may have heard this before, but many still seem to not be doing anything about it. You should. Here's why. With a US$50 wireless antenna and the right software a criminal hacker located outside your building as far as a mile away can capture passwords, e-mail messages, and any other data being transmitted over your network, and even decrypt data that is supposedly protected.
Someone could also join the network and launch attacks on your computer and any other devices using the network at that time. If file sharing has been left on or the personal firewall is misconfigured it's relatively easy to access the computer via an open Wi-Fi network. Someone could...
Facebook app developers sold user info
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Facebook has revealed that a data broker has been buying identifying Facebook user information from app developers and as a result has placed some developers on a six-month suspension.
The announcement, which Facebook made last Friday afternoon on its developers blog, comes on the heels of the revelation that many popular Facebook apps were transmitting user IDs--which can be used to look up a users' names and, in some cases, the names of the app user's friends--to at least 25 advertising and data firms.
According to Facebook's developers blog:
As we examined the circumstances of inadvertent UID transfers, we discovered some instances where a data broker was paying developers for UIDs. While we determined that no private user data was sold and confirmed that transfer of these UIDs...
Nurses and the profession they represent: A chase that concern`s us all
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Heya
you did read probably the title and wonder what it has to do with computers, the truth is that it does not have that this is one of the few times I will deviate from the main theme for the rest of the blog,
Today I have visited Norway `s largest Internet newspaper, and at the bottom of the page was a link to a post made by a nurse, Where she talks briefly about her profession, it is a subject that affects us all at some point in our life.
You can wake up one day that work just like everyone else, but it may soon prove to be one of your worst days for many reasons, But what many take for granted are the people who are there for you that day you end up in health care, The Angles in White, which you can call them is often a forgotten profession for most of us. You can see them...