The Department of Defense and other organizations were found to be connecting into Windows Vista computers without authorization.
6 Firefox Extensions for Web Workers
With thousands of extensions out there, your list may vary, but here’s my own selection of half a dozen essentials.
Security Now 101: Are You Human? – Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Steve looks at Captcha and Re-Captcha – the pros and cons of trying to distinguish humans from robots, with a side look at Alan Turing and Jeff Hawkins’s On Intelligence.
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Why don’t we tip IT service people?
You tip the pizza man, you don’t tip the Fed Ex driver. You tip the bartender at the pub, and you don’t tip the McDonald’s clerk; but you do tip the barrista at Starbuck’s. The US has ritualistic levels of tip etiquette, which admittedly don’t exist other places in the world but, the question remains; Why don’t we tip our IT service people?
New Trojans: give us $300, or the data gets it!
Security companies PandaLabs and Kaspersky Lab have both identified new strains of Trojans that do the same thing: they encrypt users’ data and leave a ransom note on the hard drive demanding $300.. or else.