Researchers find 12 zero day flaws, targeting 5 web malware exploitation kits – The use of these flaws could lead to hijacking of the admin panel, retrieving the admin password, or injecting content within the panel, potentially not just disrupting the campaign, but exposing the person behind it, or at least offering invaluable clues.
French regulators: Google snagged passwords, e-mail – Google collected passwords and e-mail when the company intercepted and stored data detected on open Wi-Fi hot spots in France, according to the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty.
Kadaza: A web service that provides an attractive homepage solution – Visual directory showing the absolute best and most popular websites in many different categories. With Kadaza you not only have all your favorite sites just a few clicks away, Kadaza also introduces new and exciting sites.
Poll Results: When was the last time you had to deal with an actual computer virus? – How did your peers answer this question: When was the last time you had to deal with an actual computer virus?
No anti-virus software? No internet connection – AUSTRALIANS would be forced to install anti-virus and firewall software on their computers before being allowed to connect to the internet under a new plan to fight cyber crime. And if their computer did get infected, internet service providers like Telstra and Optus could cut off their connection until the problem was resolved. (submitted by Mal C)
Malware Found on Lenovo Driver Download – The driver download portal of hardware manufacturer Lenovo temporarily deployed malicious code. Various virus scanners issued alerts about a Java-based Trojan downloader or dropper.
TrulyMail – TrulyMail is a private messaging system (replace email messages with TrulyMail messages and get the extra benefits of automatic encryption and a lot more). TrulyMail is FREE and runs on Windows XP and later. (submitted by John W)
Toshiba’s Franken-Net-Tablet: It’s Alive – Is the Toshiba Libretto W100 a netbook, a tablet, a reader, a stroke of genius or a disaster? While it’s shaped like a standard netbook PC, it folds out to reveal two screens, one of which can be used as a touchscreen keyboard or as a separate window for viewing content. (submitted by Dar)
Texting While Driving More Common Among Adults Than Teens – Adults are guilty of the dangerous activity of texting while driving more often than teenagers, according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The Pew study also revealed that adults are substantially more likely to talk on a cell phone while driving than teenagers.
Video: Social Engineering are we all being hoodwinked – Divining the News. (submitted by Dar)
Most Young People Do Care About Privacy, Reputation, Pew Says – Some 71 percent of social networking users aged 18 to 29 have changed the privacy settings on their profile to limit what they share with others online, according to a new digital identity survey from Pew Research Center.
“The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.”
– Quentin Crisp
SliderDock – SliderDock, a simple and good-looking program launcher, allows for creating one or more rings of shortcuts. You can pack plenty of icons into a given ring, and then use the mouse wheel to rotate the one you want to the front.
Switch Off – Set a time for your PC to shut itself off, hibernate, log off a user, or run a script with this utility.
Launchy – Launchy makes it easy to quickly launch programs. Hit Alt-Space to bring up its tidy little program window, and type in the name of a program in your Windows Start menu. Launchy closes, and brings up the requested program.
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