Windows users, more than anyone else are targets for sneaky installers that add unwanted programs to your computer, and hijacking toolbars to your browsers. If you keep installing bundled sneakware, your computer will become erratic and start becoming unresponsive — and if you let it go on and on, it will start doing odd things — and finally… Read More »
EB is pretty cool,, she knows all the hacker terms like pwned and crack. I don’t know any of them, but if I need to know one she’ll tell me — reluctantly. Because you’re all good people like TC, you probably don’t know what pwned means, so EB told me it’s OK to tell you. Pwned means owned.… Read More »
It seems every day there is something else in the news about our government encroaching on our personal lives. Now it has been revealed that the FBI hackers have been developing malware. It’s not surprising; I think most of us know the government hires the best hackers and pays them well. So here you go… This Ars Technica… Read More »
Google Pushes White House Petition Demanding The Government Secure A Warrant To Read Your Email Google is promoting a White House petition calling for reform to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), amending it to require a warrant for the government to read the email of its citizens. In a Google+ post – natch – Google asked its… Read More »
EB and I have been around and on the Web since the days of Windows 95 when computers had 540 MEGABYTE hard-drives and 16 KILOBYTES of RAM. And Yahoo has been around as long as us or longer, but Yahoo Mail has been something we’ve never used — and never well. From security breech to security breech to… Read More »
Just a few minutes ago, I received one of those scam emails designed to pluck at my heart strings and make me all warm and fuzzy — and abandon my common sense enough that I’d actually give my bank account details to someone I don’t know. Most of the time, I just delete it, but sometimes I can’t… Read More »