If you’re a MobileMe subscriber. That service is closing down on June 30, 2012, which means you’ll be forced to transition over to iCloud in less than 60 days, whether you like it or not. If you are running 10.5 Leopard, Apple is easing the transition by offering a free installer DVD for Snow Leopard 10.6 [...]
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has passed through the House Of Representatives with a 248-168 vote Friday afternoon. Currently this is one of the most controversial bills being voted and worked on. Companies are going to be allowed to share information about cybersecurity threats with one another and the U.S. government through [...]
The first one is known as Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a. Like the common Flashback, this new threat was more than likely spread through Java exploits on Websites, and allows for remote control of affected systems. It is about one month old. It may have only been used in targeted attacks. And Apple’s security update for Flashback helps render future Java-based attacks harmless. It [...]
This site like a multitude of others is run off WordPress. There has been a piece of malware detected that masquerades as antivirus software. This has been found on 200,000+ web pages, which is almost 30,000 unique sites according to Websense. The exploit, which mostly affects sites built with WordPress, places a short piece of injected code [...]
“A few of the Internet piracy groups decided to implement new regulations and standards last week. Instead of releasing TV shows in the Xvid/Avi format, groups responsible for putting major TV shows online switched to MP4/x264. Outraged by the lack of democracy, some BitTorrent users are directing their anger at bewildered torrent sites and even [...]
It doesn’t feel like 2000 was all that long ago, does it? But on the Internet, a decade is a long time. Ten years ago we were in the era of the dot-com boom (and bust), the Web was strictly 1.0, and Google was just a baby. Since then people have welled onto the Internet. [...]
Worldwide Internet users in 1995 Today there are almost 2 billion Internet users worldwide. In 2000, there were 361 million worldwide. But go back even farther in time and you’ll find out that back in 1995, the Internet had a worldwide user base of less than 40 million. For perspective: The Internet user base of [...]
