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Repost article From ARS, “Microsoft has vast resources, literally billions of dollars in cash, or liquid assets reserves. Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise of market dominance with low-quality goods.” Who wrote those lines? Steve Jobs? Linux inventor Linus Torvalds? Ralph Nader? No, the author is former White House adviser Richard A. Continue reading →

Make a TrueCrypt enabled U3 Flash drive.V1.0 References: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818804 http://www.u3community.com/viewtopic.php?t=434 http://www.truecrypt.org/ Steps: 1. Download TrueCrypt 2. Run the installer(DO NOT INSTALL) go ahead and click extract. I typically extract or work on the root of a drive typically D:(work\TrueCrypt) 3. Download U3 customizer. Extract to Work\ 4. I also downloaded a ISO creator. You cant Continue reading →

Fannie Mae ex-employee plotted to erase 4,000 servers A former IT admin, who used to work for Fannie Mae at their Urbana Technology Center in Maryland, has been indicted by a grand jury for planting a malicious script to destroy data on all of the company’s servers. The computer time bomb was designed to go Continue reading →

A New Zealand man who bought a second hand MP3 player from a store in the US found it loaded with the names and personal details of American soldiers, as well as a mission briefing and information about equipment. “”Chris Ogle says he will return the unit to the US Defense Department if asked, and Continue reading →

Again this wpast week MONSTER.com has reported that a large number of user names and passwords have been stolen. So Please Go change your monster password. Or if you are like me Delete your account. Monster hasnt been seeming to work for me lately CL and DICE+ USAJOBS and DCJOBS and MAJOBS hav been working Continue reading →

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F21%2F1319238&from=rss WOOT! Another score!

This article is great! I am glad he is pushing to keep his BB. i mean its his and he should be able to do that! He better have 14+ character passwords and that BB better have a 6+ pass on the BB encryption. i will discuss this in my Mini cast. http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/obama_will_get_his_blackberry.php

National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA08-316A Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities Original release date: November 11, 2008 Last revised: – Source: US-CERT Systems Affected * Microsoft Windows * Microsoft Office XP, 2003, and 2007 * Microsoft XML Core Services Overview Microsoft has released updates that address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Continue reading →