Stemming the Tide

With all the accounts of Phishing horrors and IT security advisories warning against it, FBI’s breakthrough against a US-Egypt Phishing scam is definitely a welcome in the war against identity theft.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said 33 people were arrested across the United States early Wednesday while authorities in Egypt charged 47 more people linked [...]

7.5 Going 8.0

I’ve been using AVG Free for computer protection ever since I’ve had my own laptop at home. Back then, my primary consideration was cost. After doing a modest amount of research, I went for it. Right now, I have 2 notebooks here running the software for security and protection.
Since version 7.5 would be supported by [...]

On Chinese Hackers

A PDI InfoTech article caught my attention last week. If it is to be believed, the chinese hackers had compromised the security of secret information of the British government by hacking into its networks. Also reported are attacks on the US defense department from the chinese as well.
Well I guess they, (the chinese,) are taking [...]

Triple X

As I was about to log on to my blog to create an entry, this blog article got my attention. It basically refers to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’, (ICANN,) recent disapproval of proposed “.xxx” domain for online porn.
The internet never ceases to amaze me. Over the years of using it, I [...]

Sammy’s Script

As I was sifting through the wordpress’ FAQ’s, I came across the following outdated article somewhere. Actually what had me spend some time writing about a year and a half IT newsflash was the technical explanation of the worm’s code.
I guess the fact that I started out my IT career learning the dirty work of [...]