Security

Perhaps you’ve seen the videos earlier this year showing how a nanny abused her charge. In the video, the nanny is seen hitting the toddler, and throwing him around. This is probably a big concern shared by parents who have to leave their kids…

For almost a decade now, I’ve been a loyal AVG user. I liked how AVG was lightweight, free (for personal use), and had daily updates. It wasn’t bloatware like McAffee or Norton, and it was a decent enough antivirus software.

From Computerworld: Skype may pose a security threat.

The warning comes after the disclosure this week

of two critical flaws in Skype’s software, one of which could allow

malicious hackers to take complete control of compromised systems.
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Via Ambot Ah!:

Take caution in using your computer’s clipboard feature (usually

Control-C in Windows or Command-C in Macs). Some browsers are

capable of transmitting this information over the web by a combination

of Javascripts and PHP/ASP/CGI…

I’ve been looking into anti-spam measures, and we at i.PH eventually ended up with the built-in Nucleus CAPTCHA plugin.

But this anti-spam feature enforced by Sacha on her wiki-blog is pretty interesting:

NOTE: ANTI-SPAM MEASURE NOW IN…

According to security specialist Steve Gibson in episode 4 of the Security Now Podcast with Leo Laporte, it’s actually a good idea to write down your passwords.

I blame it on myself for not regularly running my AVG’s

complete test. It automatically launched this morning, and

already found six infections five minutes into the scan. Or at

least AVG thinks they’re malware (but are most likely just cookies or

java scripts that…