Here’s a scary thought: Yahoo Messenger getting hit with 9 zero-day exploits.  It’s very rare to hear about applications that have that many simultaneous zero-day exploits.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, ‘zero-day’ simply means the fact that there are vulnerabilities which recently do not have any patches to fix them.  […]

Imagine trying to decrypt with some of the strongest forms of encryption with the fastest computer publicly available. If you were to do this, it would currently take 20 years, non-stop to complete the task… unless you had one of these optical quantum computers used by some University of Michigan researchers. Having one […]

A person who goes by the name Hamachiya2 has recently discovered a flaw that can crash IE6 and even an entire system as reported by some users. So what does this mean for all of the people out there still using IE6? Well, it should act as a wake-up call to stop using […]

This is something I had absolutely no idea about since I normally do all my own repairs. But for all of you people who do send your computer off to Computer Repair Chains (or just typical Computer Repair Stores for that matter), I have a feeling this interview is going to be a real […]

You know, I find it amusing that when data theft is normally discussed in the media, they always teach you about the protective measures you (or a company) can take from outside threats. They usually never take into consideration the threats that are on the inside. Whether it be from competitors bribing employees […]

Now that the iPhone has been released with hundreds of thousands of people buying them on opening day, hackers are now getting involved to see if they can make it better (dare I say)? As of now, a traditional locked (i.e. retail) iPhone can only work with AT&T services, and will only work with […]

RFID’s have made a dramatic impact on how business and tracking is done over these past years. With their cheap design and implementation, there is no wonder as to why RFID’s have been such a success. That being said, you might want to check out this article. It explains 15 ways that […]

McAfee just released a report regarding search engine safety, and the results are pretty interesting. One thing that caught my eye was the fact that Google, which serves about 35% of the search population (making it the most popular engine to perform searches on), does not have the highest percentage of returning risky results. […]

When it comes to desktop security, there has been one trend popping up more frequently among various security companies: empowering the end users with their security. Obviously, people with computer-oriented degrees will probably enjoy this, but what about everyone else? A lot of people are really looking for the ’set it and forget […]

It was recently confirmed that the large scale computer developers will not be able to buy XP licenses for their computers come the end of January 2008. Personally, I think this is very unfortunate because that means it will probably not be much longer after that when Microsoft cuts off XP support. This […]