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Fake Antivirus Software Circulating
Thu, 09.18.08 3:26 PM – 15:26 | 0 Comments
Fake Antivirus Software Circulating

As the US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) points out, if you are just browsing on the Internet, and all of a sudden you are getting pop-ups that supposedly scan your computer and report …

How to Fix Expired Security Certificate for smtp.gmail.com (Google’s Mail Server)
Tue, 07.29.08 11:47 AM – 11:47 | 0 Comments
How to Fix Expired Security Certificate for smtp.gmail.com (Google’s Mail Server)

File under: oops
Google accidentally let their mail sending server’s security certificate expire. When you go to send an email, you will see an alert message that reads “Unable to verify SSL server smtp.gmail.com”.
Hopefully Google will …

Do you believe in ghosts?
Fri, 06.27.08 2:21 PM – 14:21 | 0 Comments
Do you believe in ghosts?

The full details are not yet known, but Manuel Caballero has just given a presentation at Microsoft’s BlueHat security conference. Apparently, an enormous security problem in IE 6 and 7 has been discovered, a so-called …

Adobe Adopts Microsoft’s Drunk Thinking
Tue, 05.13.08 8:22 PM – 20:22 | 0 Comments
Adobe Adopts Microsoft’s Drunk Thinking

Well now this is just stupid.
Taking a chapter right out of Microsoft’s intrusive “We’ll block everything for you until you say it’s ok” Vista book, Adobe has suddenly and annoyingly decided to block every flash …