Twitter Appears To Be Down

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,…

Mitigating WordPress Brute Force Attacks

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…

Tis The Season

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…

Online Armor Free

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.

Technology Trick Or Treats

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

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.

Adobe Exploits In the Wild

Adobe has announced on their blog that there are reports of in-the-wild exploits for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobot. Unfortunately everyone must wait until October 13th for the fix to be published.

Comcast Unveils New Security Program

Comcast has launched a new security program called Constant Guard to alert its subscribers when they are infected. The new program is intended to provide protection from various online threats. McAfee Internet Security Suite is also included.