A weekend blog post from MS about this. Not common at all. This exploit would allow remote code execution if one visits an affected website, after browser compromise through email or even IM. IE 10 and 11 are protected from this if they have “Enhanced Protection Mode” turned on. You are also protected if you have EMET 4.1 or 5.0 Tech Preview installed. “Microsoft says that PC owners should always enable their personal firewall, make sure to have all of the l...
Many will greet this with fear, and its misuse should be feared. However, if you can, suspend the fear for a moment, and revel in the wonder of what has been achieved. For the first time, molecular geneticists have achieved a truly wonderful thing. They have performed the precise repair of a damaged gene, and that gene only. This was what I considered would be the ultimate triumph of Medicine. The scientists at MIT have used two enzymes (from a bacterium) to locate and correct a ...
“When your PC won’t boot from its hard drive, you might be dead in the water — unless you’ve created a bootable emergency repair disk or drive…even if you’ve diligently made system-image backups, you might still need an emergency disk at hand to restore the most recent image.” – Fred Langa The links below present a really good two part series by Fred Langa in Windows Secrets. It would be well worth your time to read them, and to prepare Rescue/Emergency Boot Disks f...
Many were thrilled about Oculus Rift and gaming, others doubted the wisdom of Facebook’s purchase of the 3D gaming module currently being developed. Jump to Roberta Firstenberg’s chemotherapy resistant terminal malignancy, and that quality of mercy, and her granddaughter Priscilla who is a game artist artist. The dev and support team for Oculus Rift received a moving note from Priscilla about her grandmother who was essentially immobilized, and decided to do the right thin...
Do you hate reinstalling windows because of the updating process? Especially if you’re not on a super fast connection? “Slipstreaming is a method in which you integrate software updates with the original installation media.” – Lifehacker This is even for those who have fast connections and who really don’t need the hassle: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-slipstream-windows-updates-into-your-installatio-1562956432?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&ut...
You’ve all heard about it and about the website that checks url vulnerability. Just posting this for you Chrome users – now there’s an extension which works quietly in the background but will pop up a warning if you arrive at one of the smaller (or larger) websites which haven’t fixed the Heartbleed vulnerability. Here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromebleed/eeoekjnjgppnaegdjbcafdggilajhpic Update: There are...
Well, the IRS missed the April 8th deadline with Windows XP (58,000 computers worth) and will be paying MS millions for an additional year of security patches. Deadlines only apply to some XP users, it seems. This especially rankles since the IRS demands we all tow the line with our 1040s and now health insurance as well. Guess who’s going to pay for those patches? Doubly painful since they won’t be available to the folks actually paying for them. Turns out this will cost an...
"Windows XP mode is restricted to Professional versions of Windows 7. Microsoft doesn’t officially support it on Windows 8 , but there’s a way to get Windows XP Mode running on Microsoft’s latest operating system anyway. You won’t need a Windows XP disc or license key — just a computer running Windows 8." For those who are unhappy, I found an article which explains the "how to": http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/forget-end-life-w...
This video ( http://youtu.be/jz55QSOaFbI ) from MS should explain the updates. There are “Critical” updates. Executive Summary Four bulletins are released by Microsoft this month that address 11 vulnerabilities across all products. The products affected by these vulnerabilities are Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Two bulletins are rated critical, the other two important. Top deployment priority are the two cr...
Really. This is a huge problem. There’s a bug in the security encryption software used by large segments of the internet (possibly millions of websites) to encrypt and secure private data from being transmitted to the internet which causes data leaks (passwords, user names, banking info, etc.) when the server communicates with a computer attempting to communicate with that server. Worse: The data can be stolen without leaving a trace, and impersonations would go undetected. Heart...
There’s an update available to Ps CS6, CC and Bridge (at least it was for mine). There’s new support for Canon EOS 1200D, Casio EX-100, DJI Phantom, Fujifilm X-T1, Hasselblad H5D-50c and HV, Nikon D3300 and D4S, Olympus OM-D E-M10, Panasonic LUMIX DMC-ZS40, Phase One IQ250, Samsung NX30 and Sony's Alpha a5000 and Alpha a6000 (ILCE-6000). The Oil Paint filter was based on a large code package from Pixel Bender which is outdated, and to be honest, I didn’t see much use for that fi...
Sorry to bring bad news, but it has gotten worse. So how is it worse? CryptoDefender wipes out all Shadow Volume Copies (also called VSS or Volume Snapshot Service) and ransom demands are added to every file containing encrypted files. So what does VSS do? It makes Snapshots. Snapshots have two primary purposes: they allow the creation of consistent backups of a volume, ensuring that the contents cannot change while the backup is being made; and they avoid problems with file locking...
If you’re interested, getting it isn’t easy. You have to go to Piriform’s Google Plus profile page and join the community. You can find that here: https://plus.google.com/communities/110652555815519063408 You’re not done yet. Now you have to go to the store page and click on “become a tester”. However, when I clicked on the link (from gHacks), I got this message: Sorry, there is nothing to see for you here. This could have several ...
Lifehacker was noting the update for Windows 8.1 with the Start Menu feature and the allowing apps to run in a desktop window and made mention of the Start8 and ModernMix Stardock apps which do that already... Nice to be noticed! And speaking about noticing, please note that the update to Start8 for the new Windows 8.1 update is available , per Island Dog.
Don’t miss this…it’ll teach you how to use the Creative Cloud to start or expand your business (photography). Here: http://www.creativelive.com/courses/creative-cloud-essentials-lesa-snider?utm_source=Lesa&utm_medium=Lesa&utm_campaign=LesaLRE Fantastic instructress and it’s free…how can you lose?