Google Gets Hacked & What It Means ...
Numerous outlets reported that Googles Gmail and 30 other companies were hacked by the Chinese. Ars Technica reports many say the hack was targeted against Chinese dissidents. The cyber-assault came to light on Tuesday when Google disclosed to the public that the Gmail Web service was targeted in a highly-organized attack in late December. Google said that the intrusion attempt originated from China and was executed with the goal of obtaining information about political dissidents, but the company declined to speculate about the identity of the perpetrator. McAfee...
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Nexus one VS Motorola Droid...
Nexus one VS Motorola...
Renewing the self-signed certificate fo...
http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2008/01/exchange-server-2007-renewing-self.html Link above is for renewing the self-signed...
How to hide the physical drives in Windo...
How to hide the physical drives in Windows Explorer If you don’t want your individual physical drives/partitions to show up in Windows Explorer or My Computer (you’ll still be able to access them from the Run box), you can do so by editing the registry. Here’s how: Open the registry editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer In the right details pane, right click an empty space and select New, then Binary Value. Name the new value “NoDrives” (without the...
Windows 7 and Vipre...
Windows 7 has a much more aggressive firewall built in. And the added security that is on by defualt can also get in the way. On Windows7 machines make sure that you have network discovery enabled along with file and printer sharing. Open port 18086 inbound to the agent machine. Port 18082, 135, 139 and 445 need to be open for incoming and outgoing connection to the Vipre server. Note that port 139 and 445 are enabled by default if file and printer sharing is enabled. If the system meets all these requirement you should be able to push deploy with no problems. As for...
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SSL hack vulnerability details to emerge...
Confidential online connections like banking transactions made from public wireless hotspots remain vulnerable to attacks despite improved security that was supposed to fix the problem, researchers will demonstrate at the Black Hat security conference. The vulnerability means that attackers can lurk in the middle of what victims think are secure SSL sessions with banks, retailers and other secure Web sites, picking off passwords and other information that can be used later to steal account funds or compromise confidential business data, say the researchers, Mike...
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Clearing Windows Update Cache...
If you’ve ever had Windows Update fail, you know what a headache it can be to get it working again. Sometimes it happens because the file was somehow corrupted during the download or interrupted, and Windows tries to install it anyway. It will keep trying because it thinks the update files are there. If your computer hasn’t been formatted in a while this can also free up a lot of space on your hard drive. I’ve seen it clear up to 2 GB of space, because the updates are installed but the cache is never deleted. Open a Command Prompt. Click Start >...