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The Great Russia Hack 2: How’d They Do It?
Forget what you know about hacking. Nation-state hackers work at an entirely different level. Imagine that you get hacked - the bad guys get the password to your mailbox, say. The next step for most hacking attacks is that the bad guys do something that you will...
FINAL GOODBYE TO PC MAGAZINE
The publisher of PC Magazine announced the end of the print edition - the last copy will be printed in January. I ended my subscription and wrote a eulogy for PC Magazine earlier...
ONECARE FOLLOWUP
Information will be coming out rapidly to fill in the details of Microsoft's surprising announcement yesterday. Over in the OneCare forum, someone pointed out to me that the...
MICROSOFT PROMISES FREE SECURITY SOFTWARE, KILLS ONECARE
That rumbling you feel is a seismic shift in the field of security software. This will affect every single one of you and cause major changes in the entire industry. Microsoft...
MICROSOFT ONLINE SERVICES
I am happy to announce that Microsoft formally unveiled Microsoft Online Services today. I am a Microsoft partner authorized to sell and support Microsoft Online Services. I...
WINDOWS LIVE SKYDRIVE UPDATE
Microsoft is updating and integrating all of its "Windows Live" services. The results are overwhelming and quirky but the changes include some things that are even...
SPAM HOST CUT OFF
The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted on Tuesday after a company providing the servers for the spammers was taken offline. The bad guys install malware on computers...
FREE COMICS
Finally, some online technology that you can use! In the last ten years, many newspapers, magazines, and other publishers experimented with putting material online behind walls...
HOW SPAMMERS MAKE MONEY
Spammers can turn a profit even if they only get one response from every 12 million emails they send. When you see a ridiculous spam message and think, who in their right mind...
ACROBAT BINDERS & PORTFOLIOS
Acrobat 9 Professional builds on the features in Acrobat 8 that made it an important tool in many offices, especially law offices. There is a vastly improved document comparison...
HOPE
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who...
WINDOWS AZURE & LIFE IN THE CLOUD
"Windows Azure" is a terrible name but you need to be aware of it anyway. Windows Azure is a breathtakingly ambitious platform outlined by Microsoft at last week's Professional...
CLOUD COMPUTING BASICS
There are lots of projects intended to move our computing lives online. Let me try to paint a picture of where our world is heading over the next 5-10 years. I'll use Microsoft...
LIVE MESH UPDATE
Windows Live Mesh has just been updated, as of about noon on Thursday 10/30. If you are using it already, you will be notified to install the update; it will stop working until...
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CRUCIAL MEMORY SCANNER
If you don't have enough memory ("RAM") in your computer, it will run very, very slowly. Once you have a reasonable amount of memory, performance won't change very much if you...