Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Administration
These days, data is mobile. Every day, sensitive corporate data leaves a company’s headquarters on a flash drive or an employee’s laptop. Regardless of where it is going, mobile data can be an I.T. department’s worst nightmare.
In fact, the 2006 “CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey,” a joint effort by the San Francisco office [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Administration
When I needed to make a USB key (aka. USB pen drive, USB memory stick, whatever) bootable under Linux I found there was a number of pages on the Internet that listed the steps needed. Some of these pages required you to do some steps from DOS and/or used the syslinux command.
I did not want [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Administration
This is old news but still deserves a mention. In case you haven’t been a student in awhile TurnItIn is a service for educational institutions. They make it compulsive for students to allow their paper to be submitted to Turnitin or receive a failing grade of 0.
The service, a profit entity, operates by archiving student [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2008 by Administration
Got it through MSDN… the real release, not the beta. Everything to do with file transfer has improved substantially… Copy, delete, move.. large, small files.. all smooth now. C’mon Microsoft.. you can do it!
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Administration
People will post just about anything on social networking sites. And the information can be used against them. Suddenly, those saucy pictures and intimate confessions on social networking sites can be taken down and used in evidence against you in ways never dreamed of.
In the judicial backwater of a New Jersey federal court, a [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Administration
Damballa researchers share some techniques for getting a better picture of botnets — and targeted attacks
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Senior Editor, Dark Reading
Is that malware found on your client machine the sign of a targeted attack or a routine bot-herding run? How do you know for sure?
Botnet hunters from Damballa are using some traditional network monitoring [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Administration
Better get rid of those HD-DVDs soon.
HD DVD Format on Death Watch
Author: THOMAS K. ARNOLD and ERIK GRUENWEDEL
Posted: February 14, 2008
The format war has turned into a format death watch.
Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a rash of [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Administration
Feel free to use this to give to your Valentine. I did. :)
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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Administration
If you send an email to mp3@koolwire.com with your .WAV attached, it will convert that .WAV to .MP3. Here’s some more.
send email to:
mp3@koolwire.com - WAV to MP3
wav@koolwire.com - MP3 to WAV
pdf@koolwire.com - Word, Excel, PowerPoint to PDF
doc@koolwire.com - PDF to Word, Rich Text Format
iPhone@pdfonline.com - Visio, Word (including the 2007/.docx kind) to PDF & [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Administration
At first i was like “Oh shit, a bunch of crap is about to fall out” then i got close enough to realize that it was just a badass painting…
that’s a dog in the bottom left.
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Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Administration
Just how rampant is piracy in PC casual gaming? In a startling installment of his regular Gamasutra column, Reflexive’s director of marketing Russell Carroll (Wik, Ricochet) reveals the 92% piracy rate for one of his company’s games, and what worked (and didn’t work) when they tried to fix it.
“It looks like around 92% of the [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Administration
I know a lot of you guys use ImgBurn. The new version was just released yesterday (the previous version, 2.3.2.0, was released 4/12/07). The change log is gigantic. Among it are the ability to create and burn audio CDs, HD-DVD discs, Blu-Ray discs, the usual insane list of bug fixes, language files for localization, and [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Administration
There is a new local root exploit found in linux kernels 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1. Here’s a proof-of-concept, which basically works as a “passwordless su”.
I have tested the exploit on a few systems I manage, and it just plain works on a number of them. The distros I have around that are vulnerable are:
Fedora 8
CentOS [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Administration
Even with strike over, Heroes seems grounded until next season.
February 11, 2008 - While the strike looks just about over, Heroes fans shouldn’t expect new episodes in the immediate future. The news filtering out seems to confirm that the NBC superhero hit won’t be back until this fall, despite writers almost certainly going back to [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Administration
In what can only be classified as yet another crushing blow to the embattled HD DVD camp, rent-by-mail giant Netflix has just announced its intention to only stock Blu-ray titles in the future. Netflix justified its decision by pointing out the fact that most Hollywood studios seem to be converging solely around the Sony-backed format [...]
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