No one (except maybe hackers) loves hackers. President Obama will propose new laws against hacking that could make either re-tweeting or clicking on a link illegal. The (proposed) new laws make it a felony to intentionally access unauthorized information even if it’s been posted to a public website. The new laws make it a felony to traffic in information like passwords, where “trafficking” includes posting a link. Here’s the proposed law: http://www.whitehouse.gov/...
One for the kids of the 90’s. Castle Wolfenstein, Lemmings, Commander Keen, The Oregon Trail and Maniac Mansion… Go for it! Links: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Maniac_Mansion_Enhanced_1988 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Castle_Wolfenstein_1984 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Lemmings_2_-_The_Tribes_1993 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Commander_Keen_-_Keen_Dreams_1993 ...
Seriously. This in from Neowin (via Dell SecureWorks): “Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit(TM) (CTU) researchers discovered malware that bypasses authentication on Active Directory (AD) systems that implement single-factor (password only) authentication. Threat actors can use a password of their choosing to authenticate as any user. This malware was given the name "Skeleton Key." – Dell This installs as a memory patch of Active Directory and since it’s ...
This was a planned post which sydneysiders gave the spolier for…no matter. Cauldyth and everyone interested in learning Photoshop the way you should, from the basics, a free course is being given on my fave free learning channel, creativeLive by an excellent photographer, Ben Willmore. “Ben Willmore who is a member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame who has taught over 100,000 Photoshop users on five continents. His bestselling books, DVDs, and hit seminars have estab...
“The Best of The Best” of CES 2015 is Sling TV. O.K….so what’s that? You want to cut the cable but still want to watch TV shows? “Sling TV is the first non-traditional alternative that looks like it could really work -- and it's coming this month. Not only does it bring an interest-grabbing slate of content right off the bat (ESPN), but also the entire interface and system brings TV into the internet era. Even the price is on target, starting at $20 with no contracts i...
I love Adobe Ps. I make no bones about it. Many more folks would try their hand at it if they learned it from fundamentals…not just memorizing how to do something, but understanding the theory and then going about solving a problem…that’s the real fun. Anyway, Bryan O’Neil Hughes (Senior Photoshop Product Manager) has put together a bunch of tutorials on ways to do things…it’s excellent, so I thought I’d take some and pass the plate ar...
I think I’ve scooped the web on this one. Updated BitDefender Internet Security (I have that set on manual update) on one computer and when navigating to Outlook.com I get the error message: “Error code: ERR_CONNECTION_RESET” I’ve reported it to them. We’ll see how long it takes to get it fixed. Haven’t updated the other computer and I can navigate and logon just fine. Sooo: If you’re using BitDefender on more that one machine and have an Outlook account, pleas...
Miss Baton Rouge and Miss Louisiana of 1957, and the really pretty young woman who prtrayed Elly May Clampett (Beverly Hillbillies) has passed away at age 81. Beyond that, she sued Mattel, Inc. for making a likeness without her permission…she never landed any other roles, though.
Rumor is rife…MS abandoning the venerable IE? Untinkable? Not so much. Mary Jo Foley…a very well respected author and reporter reported yesterday in her blog at zdnet that “big changes” are coming for IE. In fact, it appears that while the search engine itself will remain, it will be lighter, faster (as in ‘dekluged’) and be far more like Chrome and Firefox. In fact, MS is building a new browser…called “Spartan” (good choice of name!). The brand name of IE is being ditched ...
As the product site says: “recALL allows you to quickly recover passwords from more than 200 programs (mail, web browsers, instant messengers, FTP clients, wireless, etc.) and license keys from more than 2,800 applications. recALL is the world's first program that allows you to recover most of the password and also a license from damaged operating systems through native support of the Windows system’s registry files . Due to the unique function emulation FTP, POP3 and ...
No secret…MS will be putting the second preview of W10 out in January 2015. No secrets revealed here, but there will be a new tool: “The Prepare this PC program enables users of supported versions of Windows, that means Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, to update to the next preview of Windows 10 using Windows Update.” – gHacks However, two words of caution: “The next Windows 10 version that Microsoft will release in January is still a preview...
Apple OS X users…a very important security fix has been issued for NTP. This update is very important to prevent remote code execution. OS X NTP Security Update ntpd Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.1 Impact: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code Description: Several issues existed in ntpd that would have allowed an attacker to trigger buffer overflows. Th...
Good article at TheWindowsClub about this: How to detect them, stop them from installing and rid your machine of them if installed through “bundling” with stuff you did want, for example. PUPs sound innocent enough – but, “Potentially Unwanted Software” but in fact, they are frequently a type of malware, spyware to be exact. I suggest reading the article…well written and informative. Remember…”free” is very rarely, if ever, “free” and watch out for the strings. Pick...
Not interesting in bashing…only in influencing a few consciences and perhaps buying patterns, because nothing changes minds like smaller profits. You no doubt remember the anti-suicide netting and Foxconn from 2010. Apple issued strict standards and inspections, and that fixed that, right? Wrong. BBC Panorama has revealed: “An undercover investigation by BBC Panorama reveals that workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products have been discovered to bei...
I find it a PITA that when you buy a new computer, or the OS online, you don’t get an OS dvd. In an effort to increase profits, MS became a well, PITA. Well, gHacks did a big service for me today. It gave links to the OS isos directly from MS. This isn’t “Whoopy! Free Windows!”, since you need your valid product key to use them. The links below are from official sources only. Don’t ever download Windows from anywhere but an official MS site. ...