“Security” collection
Safeguard your family’s digital and physical environment with expert advice on home monitoring, online privacy, and data protection. This category provides essential strategies and reviews of tools to help you maintain a secure, private, and protected connected life.
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View all →December 4, 2009
Tech News: IE Hole Plugged, BitLocker Cracked, New Twitter Mobile & Bing Bombs for 1/2 Hour
Happy Friday all! Here's what grabbed my attention this morning in Tech News: Microsoft to plug critical IE hole targeted by exploit code "Microsoft said on Thursday that it will offer six updates for 12 vulnerabilities next week including a critical hole in Internet Explorer that affects Windows 7 and other current versions of the operating system for which exploit…
Read more →December 3, 2009
Tech News: Google Public DNS, H1N1 Malware & Mac Sales Growth Projected
Taking a quick break during lunch to get this out. Had to skim the hot news quickly. Google promises faster Web with launch of Public DNS "Google is taking control of the Internet’s equivalent of the telephone switchboard, called the Domain Name System, or DNS. In a blog post this morning, Google announced the release of a public DNS resolver…
Read more →December 1, 2009
Tech News: Windows BSOD, Office 2010, YouTube Pay TV & LCD Lawsuits
Looks like we all survived Cyber-Monday. Here's what got my attention this morning: Microsoft looking into Windows 'black screen of death' problem "Microsoft says it's looking into reports that its latest security updates are causing some Windows machines to stop working and display a mostly black screen with no desktop icons, taskbar, sidebar or other elements -- seizing up and…
Read more →August 12, 2009
WebCam Monitoring & Streaming Via a $5 iPhone Application – iCam
If you travel frequently, have small kids, or just like to keep an eye on things, I have a great solution for you. A few weeks ago, I came across a nice iPhone app called iCam by SKJM which allows you to set up video monitoring of up to 4 sources at a time. Sure, there are lots of webcams…
Read more →June 23, 2009
How to Fix Apple Mail Not Saving Passwords – Keychain First Aid
Recently I was plagued with having to repeatedly enter and re-enter my passwords on some of my email accounts using Apple Mail. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. I would get asked to enter when sending email from a certain account as well as when trying to receive email from a completely different email account.…
Read more →May 20, 2009
Phishing Scam Alert: “Information from Comerica Bank customer service team”
I just got the following email with the subject line: "Information from Comerica Bank customer service team [message id: 0715063392]" from "Comerica Bank" which, for me, was obviously a phishing scam. I wanted to quickly document what I found to alert others. While the English of this email message is not as bad as other phishing scams that I have…
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April 9, 2009
Conficker Worm- What You Should Know, Prevention & Fixes
It looks like the Conficker worm is rearing its ugly head today, downloading a mysterious payload that is heavily encrypted to infected Windows machines. As the information on this is just starting to hit, there is still a lot of speculation as to what the payload contains and what it does. This post provides a brief rundown of links, tools…
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February 9, 2009
How to Easily Check your Blog for Security Breaches & Hacker Code
A few months ago, I got an email from a family member that told me that when they visited my blog, they received a "malicious software" warning. I found this very odd, since I visit my own blog fairly regularly and hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary. I found out that the issue only appeared with Safari for the…
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January 6, 2009
MacRumorsLive Gets HACKED Covering Macworld Expo 2009
This is just plain silly. The MacRumorsLive site (http://www.macrumorslive.com) got hacked only about 25 minutes into them covering the keynote. I took a quick screen capture of when the hack first reared its ugly head: After the tasteless insert of "STEVE JOBS JUST DIED" into the live blogging, things just got progressively worse with a bunch of "hackers" claiming to…
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November 4, 2008
HTD Tech Tip #3: Security Programs Don’t Always Play Well Together
It's always important, if not critical to have anti-virus & security programs installed on your PC. I'm actually a big fan of the various Security Suites that you can get that come with all of the different types of protection packaged together (firewall, anti-virus, ant-spyware, anti-malware, anti-spam, etc.). With the all-in-one package, you don't have to worry about compatibility. There…
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September 12, 2008
Humor: Your Servers are NOT Bulletproof!
Having some fun with servers (traditional vs. the "Cloud"). There are more videos coming at NoHardware.com. HTD says: Hope you liked it!
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June 12, 2008
Review: Safe Internet for your Kids with Intego Content Barrier x4
Being a good dad means protecting your kids. That can be by physically keeping them from danger, or, by preventing their young innocent eyes and minds from being corrupted by seeing content that they are too young for. With technology, connectivity and communications pervading all aspects of our lives, it has become increasingly difficult to control what our children see,…
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