Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away there was an app which blocked unwanted and possibly dangerous ads. Then, the good Jedi sold out to the dark side of the Force. At least, that’s what the Interactive Advertising Bureau Chief Randall Rothenberg is saying about the folks at Adblock Plus…in fact, he’s saying they’re not much more than an old fashioned extortion racket…selling their “white listing” for a price ( here ) and here . At the heart of all this is the “Acce...
Tim Cook, is saying “No!”, in thunder to the DoJ. But…”What if there’s info in there that would help catch terrorists?” That “What if” that makes us decide for ourselves the answer to Ben Franklin’s statement. Tim Cook said “No.” to the Justice Department’s Order to assist the FBI extract data from the San Bernadino terrorist’s phone. Wanna know something? He was right to do so. Why? Well, for one thing, does it occur to anyone that the FBI has the terrorist’s fingerprint?...
This one is truly bad. Why? Because patient care and medical information have been compromised in a severe manner. Any hack is bad…this is just much, much worse…in my opinion. The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has been unable to use its computer system for more than a week thanks to a ransomware attack. The hackers are said to be demanding more than $3 million in return for returning access. This means lab and imaging data for current and past patients has b...
Image manipulation is supremely important in many field…Photography, Art, and many more including skinning. Every year I post about this incredible FREE school (there is an option to buy “anytime” access to the lessons). There is also a re-run of the lessons if you can’t listen to the live lesson. This year there will be a total of 39 classes. There’s even an additional discount offered on Adobe’s popular “Photographer’s Bundle&rdq...
So, W10 now has a higher market share than XP. Really? Do you trust NetMarketShare’s numbers? They say IE is still beating all other browsers easily. When was the last time YOU used IE? The Federal Government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP) gives different numbers than NMS. They count differently, though. DAP lumps mobile and desktop together. NMS separates the two. So, NMS says W7 – 52.5% (desktop), W10 – 11.5%, and XP – 11.4%. W8.x – 10.4%. Hard to swallow, because by...
Before you pass out, “The IRS has revealed that cyber attackers managed to trick its system in handing over more than 100,000 access codes for user accounts. Fortunately the breach was discovered before any sensitive data was compromised.” – infopackets The attack occurred at a source outside the IRS. Social Security numbers were stolen, and the hackers set a bot working, using them, and E-PINs were generated from those stolen numbers…to wait for later filing of ta...
Discovered many interesting things on livescience.com – here are two as an example: The first: Images of the brain, processed by a neuroscientist-artist…Greg Dunn. He took various areas of the brain and then processed them creating unique art. One example in the screen shot below (more can be found on gregadunn.com ): The second is more of a mind expanding piece regarding the “male” vs. the “female” brain. Turns out, when this was examined by Dr. Dafna Joe...
Permit me to quote: “Microsoft Marketing chief Chris Capossela explained that users who choose Windows 7 do so “at your own risk, at your own peril” and he revealed Microsoft has concerns about its future software and hardware compatibility, security and more. “We do worry when people are running an operating system that’s 10 years old that the next printer they buy isn’t going to work well, or they buy a new game, they buy Fallout 4, a v...
Clearly, if you’re going to be selling your computer to a stranger (or anyone else), the last thing you want is to leave any data on it. So, My Disk Wiper is a good program, and will do it…even asks you twice, “Are you sure” type questions. It can be a long process, though. gHacks recommends checking the effectiveness with Recuva or Testdisk…I think that’s a good idea no matter which software/method you use to erase the data. I’d recommend bookmarking this link…no poin...
Oracle’s Java Plugin for your web browser is no longer being supported. This momentous step was taken on 1/27. So why did Oracle do this? Because the major browsers have moved to HTML5, which is far more secure and stable than the old NPAPI standard. In fact, all browser plugins based on that will cease to work in all the major browsers in 2016. MS, Mozilla and Google do not support plugins by default…and already block them or will block them shortly. So, since the browsers...
Well, Google acquired Motorola…but also VirusTotal. They also set up a website (currently at VirusTotal) where you can scan files, etc. The interesting in this is that it can scan the firmware on your computer (think Lenovo, and others), AND they’ve added an important layer of scanning: Your BIOS, which traditional AV software doesn’t scan…which the NSA counted on in spyware they created. They never think about Darwin though, do they? So…Brandon ...
Interesting…the guy who invented JavaScript has found (and founded) a new niche (Brave Co.) after the Mozilla disaster. Ironic, because this browser will show you content with ads stripped out as well as elements designed to track your online behavior…so your security will be MUCH greater. Supposedly though, it will not remove all ads: It’ll leave those actually useful to you. For phones, it will speed things up by a factor of up to four, and up to x14 for laptop...
One of my fave websites ( gHacks.net ) owner has produced quite an extensive review and comparison of available software to modify W10’s data collection and bad features like Wi-Fi sharing. It was nice of Martin Bormann to include urls and screenies…as well as a table of comparisons. All these programs have to be run with “Elevated Status” (as Administrator) or the changes you make won’t be applied. A very good “take away” is to make ...
So…not a whole lot to say. Will do everything WinZip can…and very fast. Has a portable format. and for Mac, as well. There are many features (more than noted below)…I’d advise going to the website and navigating…under features . There are screenshots available, too. Features : Compression and Extraction: Zip(z01), ZipX(zx01), TAR, TGZ, LZH, ISO, 7Z(7z.001), and EXE(e01). Extraction Only: RAR(part1.rar, r01), ACE, AES, ALZ, APK, ARJ, ...
Google notified Trend Micro about a problem with its software…specifically the password manager feature, which stores very strong passwords and at the touch of a button fills them in on the appropriate websites. The vulnerability comes from the way the tool interacted with Chrome 49…it was written to interact with Chrome 41…and the newer sandbox feature in Chrome 49 so, the Trend Micro tool doesn’t comply with the new security features in Chrome 49, so tha...