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East Texas Jury Invalidates Eolas Patents
After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas Technologies — named after the Irish word for knowledge — may be finished. An eight-member federal jury in East Texas deliberated Thursday for just a few hours...
Patent troll claims ownership of interactive Web—and might win
Eolas has already won millions from Microsoft for Office. This has now fueled their appetite for more since Microsoft tried the appeasement route and settled. Whether with guns or software patents terrorists should be destroyed..not appeased. This could have huge...
The Kindle Family vs the Nook Family Vs the Andriod Tablets
If you are only doing books then the kindle and nook work great...but they are only for either Amazon(kindle) or Barnes and Noble(the nooks). I would recommend you go with a full function tablet if you want to do anything more. You can get amazon apps for all things...
If your Internet Stops Working on March 8th You Most Likely Have a Trojan
This all depends on if they get the patchwaork dns server order extended. If they do then your infected pc will work fine. I hope they do not then these mahcines will cease to work and the infection will become obvious. If your PC starts acting weird...
Sopa Type Bills Are Still in The Works
There is another bill called ACTA which has been worked on behind closed doors and is set to assault everyone even more than SOPA. I have said SOPA was a misdirection and it was. Whether ACTA is the real beast or another deception remains to be seen. This bill...
Feds Take Down Megaupload….Without SOPA/PIPA
Federal prosecutors have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, on charges of violating piracy laws -- a day after a 24-hour blackout of popular websites such as Wikipedia drew national attention to the issue. "This action is among...
The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas | Techdirt
This is exactly the truth. Read the entirety of the linked article please. There's been plenty of talk (and a ton of posts here on Techdirt) discussing both SOPA (originally E-PARASITE) and PROTECT IP (aka PIPA), but it seemed like it would be useful to create...
Microsoft mandating Secure Boot on ARM, making Linux installs difficult
Once again Microsoft engages in anti-competitive and blatantly monopolistic behavior. Note this happens right after they are freed of the DOJ anti-trust oversight. If you are going to buy any kind of mobile device make sure it does NOT run windows or you won't every...
Hands-on: hacking WiFi Protected Setup with Reaver
Time for me to start recommending routers with dd-wrt and NO WPS capabilities. If turning it off doesn't turn it off then security is non-existent for wireless network. Ick. The attack took about six hours to properly guess the PIN and return the SSID and password...
Not on Autopay? Vz is Going to Charge You to Pay Your Bill
It should read...you WILL see a HIGHER chance of billings errors if you go on autopay. Every time we have tried it there's ALWAYS been a major error and getting it fixed is worse than pulling teeth. Verizon says users wont have to pay the fee if they enroll in...
Turn Off WPS(Wifi Protected Setup)
I figured it was a matter of time before this was exposed. The pins are usually 8 digits which it has been known for quite some time that you need at least 12 sufficiently random characters for any kind of protection against brute force attacks. Of course the lack...
Security Does Matter Even if You Are A Small Business
Subway itself wasn't nailed but it franchisees were. Most franchise holders are SMB's and many of them don't think they are vulnerable due to their size. However criminals are banking on that thinking now to hijack everything from computers to POS systems(many of...
Hard Disk Warranties Getting Chopped
Not too long after the market punished the Hard Disk industry for dropping warranties before the industry is now moving to cratering hard disk warranties again. I bet they are going to be introducing a new technology for manufacturing hard disks and they are dropping...
Saw This One Coming In Regards to Verizon
Verizon had started selling off it's landline business years ago. they have also begun divesting some FIOS markets as well. I had been thinking VZ would concentrate on their LTE wireless infrastructure and that has been proven true. They'll hang onto...
Good Coverage of CarrierIQ rootkit
This link aggregates all of techcrunchs coverage with decent linking to outside sites about this too. Carrier IQ | TechCrunch.
Carrier IQ: Mobile App Crap Must Stop – Security – Mobile Security – Informationweek
Crapware on a pc or mac is easy to combat....format the machine and use your own, known good image. Phones however are a new frontier of badness for the enterprise and anyone with need for data security. Folks wonder why I've advocated locking...
The Internet Is Infected – 60 Minutes – CBS News
Watch this folks. I talk about this over and over. a/v isn't enough..it is only a start. Please start with these basics. Please contact ECC on how to minimize your exposure. The Internet Is Infected - 60 Minutes - CBS News.
Reset the entire registry permissions to defaults | Windows Reference
Reset the entire registry permissions to defaults | Windows Reference.
Virtualization Project Update
I got Hyper-v working finally here at my office. I now have one box hosting 3 virtual mahcines. VM 1 is my Astaro firewall. VM 2 is my main AD file/print/authentication server. VM 3 is my Astaro Command Center which aggregates status and updates from my astaro and...
This is Why Infrastructure Systems Should NOT be Internet Accessible
SCADA systems and their ilk simply aren't designed for security. You do ont want these systems to be acessible by the internet...it is just too easy to take control of them. Get ALL infrastructure systems completely OFF the Internet. Second water utility reportedly...
Facebook tracks down cause of spam….browser holes.
In a statement, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes acknowledged that the site was the target of a coordinated spam attack and explained how it went down. "During this spam attack, users were tricked into pasting and executing malicious javascript in their browser URL bar...
Facebook “hack” not Facebook’s issue
Read the earlier article i posted about this. It is not a Facebook issue but the ease of which browsers can be comprised. Facebook explained in a statement that the spam attack was the result of a browser vulnerability that tricked users into running malicious...
Facebook Porn and Grotesque Image Flood Exposes Cloud Computing Risk
Graham Cluely, a senior technology consultant from Internet security firm Sophos, said it was not yet clear how the malicious content was being spread, but added that the website could face long term consequences."Its precisely this kind of problem which is likely to...
Virtualization Projects Update
I currently have two virtualization projects going. One is to convert 3 physical server to hyper-v and one is to convert 3 physical servers to KVM. Unfortunately p2v on a domain controller is not only not recommended, it doesn't work well. Also there is no...
Time to Kill “Protect IP”
The so-called PROTECT IP act, sequel to the much-criticized COICA, is under fire again as it enters the process of becoming law. We’ve talked about it on this blog before and no doubt the discussion will continue after it passes or is rejected, but it’s important at...