Articles Archive for Year 2009
As we roll into a new year, we felt that it’s appropriate to make a few New Year’s Resolutions. The new year is a good time to refocus on our work and to recognise areas where we need improvement. We’ve …
According to this Twitter status page, the root cause of the Twitter outage was a DNS compromise. They are continuing to investigate, and they have not published a final status.
At the moment, Twitter services appear to be down. The lack of response is causing the Twitter content on our site not to load, and forcing the delay in page rendering. We do no have any clues to the cause, …
An interesting entry showed up in the ISC Diary. A company found that one of their customers was attempting brute force attacks against other customers using WordPress. Brute force attacks are rather simple in nature. They do not attempt …
It’s official. The Macy’s Thansgiving Day Parade is over, and the Christmas season is here. Black Friday deals are published, and everyone is looking for a bargain. There will be plenty of amazing offers, and retailers will have plenty of …
A firewall is a necessity for any computer that connects to the internet, and Windows even has a built in firewall. Unfortunately, the Windows firewall only provides minimal protection to defend against attackers. Online Armor Free fills the gaps that are needed for a desktop firewall solution.
In the spirit of Halloween, this is good time for a technology related Trick or Treat list. Are they tricks or treats? In either case our readers will stumble into a few of them. We’ll let you decide what they are.
BleachBit is an open source fast privacy and cleanup tool that is very easy to use. The application provides cleaners for over 50 common applications. This includes all the common browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox as well as many other desktop application like Microsoft Office.