by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
From WMF exploits, to adware installations, to investigations by law enforcement, our Favorite Website of All Time, MySpace, is getting to be a pretty rough place to hang out. And now Chris Boyd discovers some new fun stuff just today.First, a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
Last year, one of our partners, appliance vendor Mi5 Networks, installed one of their test systems into a fairly large university (Mi5 uses our Linux-based antispyware scanner to scan for spyware coming into the network). Since it is a well-known fact that university...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
How to hide user accounts from other usersIf you have several users sharing an XP computer and you want to hide the User Accounts applet in Control from those who don’t need to have access to it, here’s how: Click Start | Run. Enter gpedit.msc in the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
We’ve all seen the sci-fi movies where futuristic computer users are able to connect their brains directly to the network, usually via nice little ports implanted in their necks. No need for a keyboard or mouse to input data, no need for a monitor to view the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 21, 2006 | Uncategorized
A little break from security… I’m off for the weekend now, but here’s a little nasty puzzle that I predict will cause many lost hours by many over the next few weeks. http://n.nfshost.com/1.html How high can you get? (If you...
