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Don't download pirated software! Ever! This video from panda labs show how easy it is for the bad guys to tag malware or a virus on to legitimate (but cracked/pirated) software that is then often released on P2P networks for download.
How...
20 years of the EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing...
Adventures with BackTrack 4 BackTrack 4 is filled with awesome security utilities.
So what have we done so far ... well not too much - we've downloaded the 1.6Gb ISO image and successfully created a DVD from the ISO.
This DVD...
Norton flags nearly everything as suspicious ! We've used Norton's (Symantec) Security Suite for many years and found it to be reliable and trap most everything.
It has on the odd year, seemed to slow down low memory systems, but since 2009 this...
Encrypt Your Emails - Free Online Service You can use this free service to encrypt your email text messages.
No information is passed across the internet until you have encrypted the message.
The encryption happens within your browser and...
Category : General
GRRRRR!
The Desktop Security Software site was hacked on 4th October 2010 at 07:53.
Not completely sure how yet – suspect some sort of WordPress hack attack.
php entries were added to re-direct to a rogue site heavy with malware that created pop-up’s alleging virus’s on the machine in use. And no doubt a massive payload of nasty stuff to follow.
This site helped if you find yourself in the same situation – http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/simple-cleanup-solution-for-the-latest-wordpress-hack.html
