In the world of internet TV, original programming has been able to gain momentum with the big players. Netflix has gotten a lot of press for their original programming, especially with the announcement of a new season of Arrested Development. Amazon is the next big name to join the market, releasing fourteen pilots for potential new series. Amazon’s strategy is very unique. What they have do... »
It’s almost that time of year again: Tax Time. You’ve received your W2 and all of your tax docs and you’re thinking about sitting down and doing your taxes. If you remember just a few years ago, you would have to go to the library or post office, pick up a hundred-page instruction book and a five-page form. The Internet has changed all of that forever, and soon everyone will do his or her taxes on... »
If Time Warner Cable were an animal what would it be? In my opinion it would be a sloth. Slow, unwilling to do anything and is so dumb it grabs its own arm thinking its a branch. It’s own arm in the case of Time Warner is it’s contrived efforts to take a stranglehold over North and South Carolina’s broadband. They are saying that basically nobody wants faster internet and it’s going to be their do... »
Advertisements are just a way of life, they are inescapable. The average American is exposed to about 250 a day. On billboards, tv or the internet. We have no control over the real world but with the aid of web browser plugins we do have control over web advertisements. I was relatively late to the AdBlock scene, only installing it about 6 months ago. I cursed myself for waiting for so long. I did... »
The world’s most infamous file sharing site, Megaupload was thought to be lost forever this time last year. As we all know its back and it’s better than ever .However it would appear that it is struggling to stay relevant . I literally don’t know a single person that has said they use mega as their primary cloud storage facility. So what happened? I followed the news over the past 2 years on both ... »
To keep up in the competition with services like Amazon Prime, Google has announced they will be offering 1-day shipping with their new “Google Shopping Express” plan. The scheme, which should work for a majority of users who have already shelled out the yearly subscription to Prime, is aimed at taking down what is quickly becoming one of the most popular online shopping options that the web has s... »
Oracle just can’t catch a break these days, can they? As of March 4, a fully-updated Java running the latest patch has been exposed to a signature vulnerability, one which could potentially set the already strained Java security team back another week at the least. Using credentials stolen from ClearResult Consulting, the applet has been able to build a backdoor on the test machine that rese... »
Disable it from automatically playing in your browser, cancel updates, lock up the anti-virus and batten down any hatches that might have been left open, you know the drill people. Yet again Java has opened up everyone’s computers to another piece of remote execution malware, one which is capable of overtaking a significant chunk of your spare memory if left undefended. We only have broad details ... »
Earlier today, a subsect of the hacktivist group known as Anonymous released a dump of private emails and sensitive information from Bank of America that was gathered off a vulnerable server in Israel. “Par:AnoIA”, as they call themselves, has taken credit for leaking a number of internal memos from IT contractor TEKsystems, who had been hired by the financial institution to monitor the group’s mo... »
Earlier today at the RSA Conference 2013, HP reported that they had seen 8,000 new software vulnerabilities surface in 2012, close to a 20 percent increase over the previous year. In their Cyber Risk Report, which has been seen by industry professionals as one of the most comprehensive evaluations of network security to look forward to annually, reports this is the highest number of backdoors that... »
