November 27, 2009
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Earlier this week Microsoft announced yet another IE (Internet Explorer) bug. This one, Microsoft Security Advisory 977981, is one of the really bad ones that can allow attackers to take your Windows PC over. Yuck! Microsoft is working on a … Continue reading
November 25, 2009
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Chances are, everyone on your intranet has Gigabit Ethernet, with its 1,000 Mbps (Megabit per second) speeds. Or perhaps your laptop users are moving up to 802.11n Wi-Fi with 100Mbps throughput. That’s all great — but once your users hit … Continue reading
November 18, 2009
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Joe Faulhaber of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center has made the interesting claim that 64-bit Windows 7 is actually safer than ordinary, 32-bit Windows. He’s right. “64-bit Windows [does] has some of the lowest reported malware infection rates in the … Continue reading
November 18, 2009
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I like Google a lot. I couldn’t live without it. Heck, I even found a way to find flu vaccines on it the other day. But, that doesn’t mean I trust its results unconditionally. That’s a good thing. Cyber security … Continue reading
November 17, 2009
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Once upon a time, supercomputers used special vector model processors to achieve their then remarkable speeds. Then, at the turn of the 21st century, people began working out how to achieve record-breaking computer speed by linking hundreds or thousands of … Continue reading
November 12, 2009
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I do wonder sometimes about Microsoft’s quality assurance. No, I tell a lie. I always wonder about Microsoft’s quality assurance. As in, “How can they keep making mistakes like this?” In the latest, a new SMB vulnerability has been found … Continue reading