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In February, a school district in Pa had been accused of remotely activating the webcams on school issued laptops and taking pictures of students in their homes without the student or parents knowing it. More details have now surfaced in the case. According to school board president David Ebby, “a substantial amount” of photos of [...]

After just one day on the market, the Apple iPad has been jailbroken! That certainly didn’t take long, did it? It was only a matter of time, sure, but this was speedy even by most jailbreaking standards. The break was completed by a well-known iPhone Dev-Team member with the nickname MuscleNerd, who revealed today that [...]

I have recently found a new, very interesting and useful online service. It is a free, online anti virus that lets you scan files for virues and other malware. This website is www.virustotal.com.  VirusTotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware [...]

Internet Security 2010 is just one of many fake antivirus applications like Antivirus Live and Advanced Virus Remover that hold your computer hostage until you pay the registration fee. This is a very abusive method to make you pay to clean up viruses that are not really in your system. Normally these infections start with [...]

Based on the analysis of 32 million passwords obtained from the recent attack to the website rockyou.com, the most popular (and least safe) password is “123456″ Nearly 50% of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys, and so on).  The below is the list of top passwords [...]

By default, on Windows Vista and Windows 7, whenever you are prompted with a UAC dialog the entire screen turns dark and the computer seems to freeze completely. This is done on purpose (Not a bug) to prioritise the importance of this window. During this period, the rest of the screen is un-usable, meaning that [...]