Computrace back door could make millions of PCs vulnerable Almost all recent PCs have Absolute Computrace embedded in their BIOS. It’s a product designed to allow companies to track and secure all of their PCs from a single cloud-based console. But researchers at Kaspersky lab have revealed that it often runs without user-consent, persistently activates itself at system boot, and can be… Read More »
Another Comcast call recorded, another Comcast apology Is recording the only answer? Ash Semvalavich/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET This call is being recorded to improve customer service. It’s being recorded by the customer. Perhaps this is the message that every Comcast customer should prepare after another unhappy man decides to record a call with the company’s service staff. In… Read More »
These States Have the Fastest Internet Virginia tops the list, and Alaska comes in last Virginia tops the list of the states with the fastest Internet, with an average Internet speed of 13.7 megabits per second (Mbps), according to Akamai’s “State of the Internet” report for the first quarter of 2014. Massachusetts and Delaware tied for second at 13.1 Mbps,… Read More »
Hackers Unveil Their Plan To Change Email Forever The creator of an ultra-secure email service once said to be used by Edward Snowden unveiled his next project at a major hacker conference Friday: He and others like him want to change the very nature of email forever. Ladar Levison, creator of the Lavabit encrypted email provider, was forced… Read More »
Hackers can tap USB devices in new attacks, researcher warns USB devices such as keyboards, thumb-drives and mice can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher has revealed. Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin’s SR Labs, noted that hackers could load… Read More »
Comcast Confessions: when every call is a sales call When AOL executive and Comcast customer Ryan Block recently tried to cancel his internet service, he ended up in a near-yelling match with a customer service representative who spent 18 minutes trying to talk him out of it. Rep: I’m just trying to figure out here what it is about Comcast… Read More »