News: New Linux kernel available for download
Those of you heavily into Linux will be interested in this. Personally I’m still learning the basics of Linux so I’m not up to speed with you :).
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A new botnet has been discovered that takes login credentials from a less-secure site and tests them on banking and financial transactions sites, leaving users who reuse the same password across sites vulnerable to attack. This isn’t good. Let’s try and not use the same password on multiple sites people, especially if it’s a site…
Jared Coseglia, who knows a thing or two about Legal IT careers as a recruiter, has written an great article for the latest issue of ILTA’s Peer to Peer magazine, entitled Starting and Sustaining a Career As A Legal IT Professional In it Jared doles out some advice on many things, and I highly recommend…
No worries, I’m sure no one would ever misuse this much data, right? Although they have huge potential to make life better, the possibility of increasingly smarter cities also raises serious privacy concerns. Through sensors embedded into our cities, and the smartphones in our pockets, smart cities will have the power to constantly identify where…
The Pew Research Center conducted a survey to discover what Americans know about personal cybersecurity. The results are troubling. Most people know very little which makes them vulnerable when they go online. This has a lot to do with why ransomware and hacking seems to be on the rise. It works, and it works because far…
I’ve been trying to find some concrete information on the use of Remote Desktop in Windows 7, but I’ve seen some conflicting reports about it. Specifically, I’m looking for information on using RDC with dual monitors. I know in RDC version 6, you could use span to extend your remote session over two desktops, but…
The number of logins that have been part of a hack, and the tools available to crack passwords, have reached the point where a password, no matter how complex it is, isn’t really enough: “If the service provider supports multi-factor authentication, Microsoft recommends using it, regardless if it’s something as simple as SMS-based one-time passwords,…