Back in the days of the floppy drive, disks where the most common way of spreading viruses and malware. The Internet has taken over, and floppy drives are long gone. They have been replaced by removable drives and optical discs, which are also capable of spreading malware. Autorun attacks, like that by the Stuxnet worm, [...]
Google Mail, How To Fix Gmail Attachment Failed Errors
Gmail, like any other modern email service, supports file attachments that are then send with the email to the recipient of the email. File attachments need to be uploaded and match certain criteria before they are attached, or added, to the email. It is for instance not possible to send executables directly via Gmail. Users [...]
FireLink, Create Custom Link Formats In Firefox
A link points to another web address, device or service. It is usually accompanied by link text that describes the link. But not every link is equal, as the platform used to display the link may have certain requirements. On some platforms, you can simply paste the web address into the form and the software [...]
Freddie Wong Videos On YouTube
I’m usually not posting funny Youtube videos on my website, there are better sites for that. But I make an exception, this time. I recently discovered Freddie’s channel on YouTube, thanks to a post on Gameokratie. Freddie is a professional video producer at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. In many of [...]
Magi The Fallen World [Game Saturday]
Magi: The Fallen World is a browser action rpg game. Players select a character class (Mage, Warrior, Archer) in the beginning. They start in town and can explore locations on the world map. The town offers the usual assortment of merchants and NPCs with quests. It is a good idea to accept as many quests [...]
Firefox Search Engine Security Add-On, Protects Against Referred-Based Attacks
A common attack form on the Internet is to optimize web pages or domain for specific keywords to make them appear on the first search result pages of popular search engines such as Google or Bing. The attack is enabled once the page or domain receives first visitors from the search engines, which are more [...]
Lastpass Security Challenge , Test Your Last Pass Passwords
Using secure, unique passwords for every Internet site or service is one of the best security practices out there. That does not necessarily protect you completely, as the Sony Playstation Network incident has shown, but it invalidates several popular techniques to steal passwords and log in information. With that incident in mind, I thought it [...]
Google Chrome Multiple Profiles Support Added
The latest Google Chrome Canary builds have a new feature called multiple profiles which has to be enabled on the experimental flags page of the browser. The new features enables the use of multiple profiles in the web browser, which is in some regards similar to how Mozilla is handling multiple profiles in the Firefox [...]
How To Update Hardware Drivers In Windows
A driver, or hardware driver, is needed so that computer devices like the mouse, monitor or video card, can communicate with the operating system. The Windows operating system ships with a huge number of drivers, which means that some users do not have to install a single third party driver to get all of their [...]