It’s been a top secret project I’ve been working on with several people including veteran author and ZD Net blogger Ed Bott. But today my new eBook, “Need to Know: Office 365 Security Essentials” has gone on sale for the paltry price of $11.45 (£7.42) on Amazon US and UK or just $9.95 direct from [...]
The Ghacks Christmas Giveaway 2011 Starts Tomorrow!
The 4th annual Ghacks Christmas Giveaway starts tomorrow. I did not reveal the products that you could win in previous years. This year, it is going to change to give you enough time to participate in the giveaways that you are really interested in. Today, I’m going to post general rules about the giveaway as [...]
Google Starts Rolling Out Yet Another Design Change
Google about six months ago started to roll out the black bar on top of most of their properties. This bar displayed the logged in Google user’s username, linked to popular Google destinations such as Google Search, Maps or Mail, and displayed options to modify user account related preferences, privacy settings or settings that affected [...]
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4 Available
The last test version of Internet Explorer 10 shipped exclusively with the Windows 8 Developer Preview. The platform preview that shipped with the Windows 8 system was actually the third preview version that Microsoft released publicly (see Microsoft Pushes Out Second Internet Explorer 10 Preview for previous coverage). Microsoft today made available the fourth platform [...]
Tech Coalition is Formed to Stop Phishing
Phishing emails are a huge problem and one that numerous attempts to rectify have so far failed to achieve. Now a large group of tech companies have joined forces with a start-up company called Agari to try and stop phishing emails from even reaching your inbox. Microsoft, Google, AOL, Yahoo! and other firms have all [...]
Embed Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus Without JavaScript
Search engines like Google Search use a page’s loading time as a signal when they compute that page’s ranking in their search engine results. Webmasters have a lot to tweak, from the server backbone to the scripts they use and embed, and the images and media they post; Everything has an impact on the page [...]
Researchers Find Security Vulnerability In Printers
Many electronic devices ship with Internet access these days. And I’m not talking about traditional devices like PCs or even gaming consoles, but more about peripherals like printers and household items such as fridges or microwaves. Columbia University researchers have discovered a vulnerability in some Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer lines that could allow attackers to install [...]
New Microsoft Security Essentials Public Beta Begins
Microsoft have begun issuing invitations to testers who expressed an interest in the next generation version of their Security Essentials, free anti-virus product. In the invitation email the company say… The Beta program is a fully functional antimalware app with ongoing updates to help protect your PC from viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. In [...]
New SkyDrive Features Launch from Microsoft
Microsoft have today announced that new features are rolling out to users of its SkyDrive service. There’s no wait for the new features either as they’re going to start rolling out immediately. SkyDrive has come under extensive criticism in recent months for limiting the sync storage that Windows Live Mesh (and Windows 8) can use [...]