Last night the Kansas City Royals lost a baseball game to the Minnesota Twins by a score of 19 to 1. That tied the worst loss in the teams history. Wow! I grew up listening to the Royals on the radio almost every night. Those were the days when the Royals were almost always in [...]
Most folks will not understand (or even care about) the details of the recently reported DNS rebind vulnerability. But this problem affects many of the low-end cable and DSL routers that are used in homes and small businesses. Even more alarming is that a tool to exploit this vulnerability is to be released at Black [...]
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When looking for a low-cost and lightweight anti-virus solution for my home computers, I came across VIPRE from Sunbelt Software. It can be found here. I have been using it for a few months and been very pleased. I have used the Big Names in the past – Norton/Symantec, McAfee, Webroot – and they have [...]
Take a look at this article from Network World. It provides high-level descriptions of how you can get infected with malware even though you avoid shady or inappropriate websites. 7 Reasons Websites Are No Longer Safe – Network World And so that you don’t have to read the long version, here is the short version… [...]
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By now we’ve all heard that Twitter was offline for a couple of hours today, and that FaceBook was running slowly. The reports are that they both were victims of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. While this was limited to sites that, admittedly, have little measurable business value, what if it was a [...]
