I recently heard that some 80 million Facebook accounts are actually fake users: Facebook: 8.7 percent are fake users Recently, Barracuda Labs released a study on Dealers and Abusers of fake Twitter accounts: The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business My first thoughts: how sad is it for someone to […]
Jim
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Let’s go to Mars!
This morning I awoke to my computer complaining that it couldn’t find a bootable volume. Evidently it had rebooted itself. Oh no! Dusted out the case interior and booted right up. About an hour later, same thing, restarted itself then no bootable volume. I didn’t see it happen and there […]
Want to know how strong your password is? Steve Gibson’s Interactive Brute Force Password Search Space Calculator shows how dramatically the time-to-crack lengthens with every additional character in your password, especially if one of them is a symbol rather than a letter or number. Worst-case scenario with almost unlimited computing […]
We’re tracking a problem with Outlook 2010 clients in a domain environment receiving a pop-up dialog “Insert a smart card” when launching Outlook. It also reoccurs while Outlook is open. Mail flow is not affected. Looks like it’s related to the recent Microsoft Update KB2553248 released yesterday, April 10, 2012. […]