As an addition to my previous post about the “Gemini” Android virus, here is a link to a supposedly free Android Antivirus software. Please note, I have not checked this out personally yet so I can not vouch for it nor its effectiveness however it seems legit and professional (it is released by the folks […]
Well it was just a matter of time before this happened 🙂 a trojan for Android, well I am sure that other threats exist out there for Android phones but this sounds like one of the more ‘professional’ ones. —- from talkandroid.com —- Today, mobile security company Lookout released some information regarding a new virus […]
Just stumbled across something I thought I’d share, it’s an interesting collection of video-clips from Dan Tentler on People hacking and more – quite interesting although I’m somewhat sceptical of the more fantastic parts of the scope – like people just handing over money, phones etc. on the street because you ask them to.. like […]
Do you often upload your photos to Facebook? You may well know that although it is not overly complicated it is time consuming, well at least it used to be 🙂 here is a utility that will help you to quickly upload your photos to Facebook – ain’t the world a wonderful place 🙂 The utility offers to; […]
NOTE: 2023.02.22 – This feature has long ago been discontinued by Bit.ly – post left for historic reasons You may recognize the domain; from URL’s, it’s used by what is called URL shorteners – basically a simple/short link to a link. Let’s say you wanted to call a friend on the phone and explain to him […]
Interested in Crypto? then you should read this interesting blog post on Kryptos (see photo). http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/clue-kryptos/ Kryptos is a legendary “sculpture” with an embedded secret message hidden by the designer that has yet to be uncovered. Read about Kryptos here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
In a display of just how horrific federal agencies can use the Anti Terror laws etc. to bully or harass people of a different opinion you should read; Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cellphones Searched at Border http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/hacker-border-search/ The sum of the article is that known and respected computer-security researcher Moxie Marlinspike was detained by federal authorities for […]
Have you ever had to explain to a non IT person how to burn an ISO image? It can be a challenge, and understandably so – if you don’t understand the fact that an ISO file is not just a regular file then it does not make much sense.. Anyhow, here is a good tip […]
Have you some old MS-Dos program lying around that you for some reason wish you could run, but as you installed Windows 7 64bit this is not possible!? Well then this is for you, DOSbox is a free dos emulator that does a REALLY good job of executing these old apps. It will even emulate […]
On the subject of ISO files (previous post), if you have downloaded a bootable ISO file and want to do a quick preview of it – then try MobaLiveCD. MobaLiveCD is a quite simple little utility that will provide an instant emulation of a system, thus you start MobaLiveCD and tell it to ‘boot’ the ISO file […]