With last week's high-profile announcement that a new form of spyware called "Flame" is almost certainly a state-developed program, the topics of cyber warfare and state-sponsored snooping have captured attention. At least, they have captured the attention of Google, which today announced that...
Yesterday the White House hosted a meeting of government officials and corporate honchos to discuss a very serious problem. World peace? The economy? No, they met to discuss botnets. What is a botnet? Here's how the Industry Botnet Group, a voluntary group of companies, trade associations and...
The anti-malware research firm, Kaspersky, recently announced they've detected a new spyware infection called Flame. Researchers speculate that Flame, a very sophisticated program, was created as a state-sponsored volley in what seems to be an escalating international cyberwar. Kaspersky...
Quickly Maximize and Minimize Windows You're typing away on your keyboard and find you need to minimize the window you're working in so you can look at another one. But that means moving your hand off the keyboard, moving it to the mouse, and clicking in that little box at the upper right of the...
Harvard University and MIT recently announced their new non-profit joint venture, edX online learning initiative. edX aims to enhance on-campus teaching and make courses from both schools available to people around the world for free. If you're looking for specific courses, although they may not be...
An ex Apple employee recently shared what some are billing the "sequel" to Apple's famous 1984 television ad. It's actually a nearly nine-minute long film that the company had created for an international sales force meeting in 1984. Instead of referencing an iconic piece of literature, as the...
