The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has been working with the authorities in eleven other countries to take down scareware scammers. The effort dubbed ‘Operation Trident Tribunal’ has seized more than 40 computers being used to host Web pages and fake scans designed to scare people into believing they needed to purchase bogus security…
Thomas Fox
While digital copies of books have become very popular for casual readers via the plethora of eReaders today, they have not hit their full potential just yet. There are many places that could be using the eReaders to cut back on paper consumption such as businesses and primarily, schools. Some of the eReader creators have…
This past week you may have seen or heard talk of a mysterious black bar appearing on top of Google.com. Well it wasn’t by accident. In fact it was a sign of something new to come from Google. What is it you ask? “Google+.” What is Google+? Google+ is a top-secret social project that Google…
IBM is once again doing something pretty amazing. Their engineers are currently working on a new type of memory that is supposedly one hundred times fast than flash memory. The remarkable thing about this RAM is not just its speed, but, it’s really cheap to produce. Even at the early stages IBM is saying that…
The Board of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that regulates how domain names work, has approved the creation of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that will allow for a near-infinite variety of new website addresses. This means anyone can submit to be approved their own “.Com, .Org, .Net, etc…” …
Yesterday Google release a browser extension for their popular Chrome internet browser that is designed to make the internet a safer place for its users. Google release an extension they call “DOM Snitch.” DOM Snitch is designed to check websites software for possible exploits and/or common security issues within webpages. This extension is still in…
In the past months especially attack attempts on corporations and home users alike have been on the rise. With large corporations like Sony, Google, and even RSA, a company whose business is network security, how are you supposed to defend your company and its intellectual data? Well according to many articles out that talk about…
This really isn’t technology related specifically but does have to do with a very popular form of communication in today’s day and age.Twitter, one of the social networking world’s big players, has been becoming more and more profitable over a fairly short period of time. Twitter, like many other website have ads on it that…
With the way Google is moving everything to the “Cloud,” comes a new feature called “Google Cloud Print.” Google’s new Could Printing service allows anyone to print to any printer via the web by connecting your printer with the Google Cloud service. With this service enabled you are able to print from any computer or…
Not too far around the corner we could be seeing a couple new wireless standards coming out. In the past we have had Wireless A, B, G, and more recently N. Each of these standards has improved the amount of data that was able to be transferred over the WiFi connection. These standards really took…
For the past 7 months Yahoo has been busy working hard on improving the way their e-mailing services are setup claiming to be two times faster than before. Email messages and attachments come and go at high speed so no more waiting 10+ minutes to send/receive email. With the latest new and improved spam protection Yahoo Mail…
There are some new forms of storage on the market. These have been around for several years now so I guess they're not that new...but at this size/speed and availability to consumers, they are completely new! At around $4,500 for a 1 TB PCI-Express card this may not really be in most consumers price range…