According to a security firm, a number of people all over the globe are falling victim to a bogus e-mail which promises the recipients access to a free sex film. (more…)

Tomorrow the world will finally see a beta of Microsoft’s long awaited ‘Security Essentials,’ the programme that, if it works, could make life very hard for traditional anti-virus makers like Norton and Symantec. The programme works just like its competitors, in that it analyses changes to a computer’s file system to track actions like copies, installs, etc. If a known virus is discovered, it alerts the user before it can do any damage. (more…)

Legacy Locker is the brainchild of a man named Jeremy Toeman, essentially it’s a back-up system for your passwords. Nothing new there I know, a carefully hidden Excel spreadsheet can do the same job, however, Toeman’s creation has one important difference. Legacy Locker also allows you to store names and contact information of designated trusted friends and relatives. In the event of your death, those people will be sent your password information.
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Adobe Flash is a pretty ubiquitous programme, used to view documents and graphics on macs, PCs, pretty much any system actually. For this reason the almighty hoo-hah made about developing the thing to work on the iPhone has surprised many. The work to get the system up and running for iPhone users has been going on, and on, for some time now and doesn’t seem like reaching a conclusion any time soon, especially after CEO Shantanu Narayen acknowledged the difficulties at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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