For the last few days I’ve been using the new beta update to Microsoft’s smartphone operating system, Windows Phone, on my HTC handset.  I’ve written a full hands-on review of this ‘Mango’ update at our sister website Windows7News.  It’s a great update and finally brings full cloud services to smartphones with the integration of SkyDrive [...]

Categories: Mobile Computing, Mobiles, Online Services, Security

Here is a rule of thumb that is more important than ever on today’s Internet: Do not post anything on the Internet that you do not want others to find out about you. Do not post it on your public Facebook profile, not on Twitter, do not use real life accounts when you make awkward [...]

Categories: Security

In May of 2009 a Sanford, Maine based company, Patco Construction Co, filed suit against Ocean Bank, a division of Bridgeport, Conn. Based People’s United Bank. Patco used online banking to make weekly payroll payments and claimed that cyber thieves had used a Trojan (ZeuS) to steal Patco’s online credential and then heisted $588,000 over [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

RSA has finally opened up and started talking about the March breach into its systems. Admitting that SecurID tokens were compromised, the company has promised to replace all 40 million tokens, for any client that feels it’s necessary. Chairman Art Coviello also stated that for financial institutions, they are also offering to provide transactions monitoring. [...]

Categories: Security

LulzSec is certainly going to make a name for themselves at the rate they are going. The hacker group claims responsibility for the recent major attacks against Sony and PBS’s websites as we have written about, compromising well over an incredible number of user’s security information and exposing the poor security of both companies. Despite [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Encrypting the files and data on your hard disc can be awkward.  There are various packages you can use to do the job some of which are easy to use and effective and others which are just a pain.  Personally I use the Encrypted File System built into Windows, though I still don’t like it [...]

Categories: Software

When it comes to security on the Internet, it can be extremely complicated for end-users to find out who is telling the truth, who is not and who is bending it. Two days ago news broke that French security company Vupen managed to bypass the Chrome browser’s sandbox, something that no one had managed to [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

>In light of Sony’s security breach last week it’s clear that Internet security is a major issue and work clearly needs to be done, and done quickly, on implementing new web security standards, for instance the authentication of email which people have been talking about for years.  Not to mention the fairly obvious increase that’s [...]

Categories: Advice

I’m well known for being a PC minimalist. I even make a bit of a fuss about this in my book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, that if you want to have to keep repairing problems in Windows one of the best ways to achieve this goal is to keep installing software into it. There’s [...]

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