GFI Vipre: The Perils of Public Wireless Networks

Public networks are vulnerable to attack…here are the keys to protecting your information.

Public networks are vulnerable to attack…here are the keys to protecting your information.

Every so often we are regaled with attention-grabbing headlines announcing the demise of the individual’s right to privacy…

There are those folks who tell me they’ll never use Windows 7 because of the horrible, heinous DRM that’s hidden in its nooks and crannies. This technology is lurking in the woodworks, ready to pounce out and take away all their freedom and liberty, violate their constitutional rights and remove all their control over their computers.

To gain a better understanding of home computing practices, GFI® Software commissioned a scientific study of home Internet use by parents and their teenage children. This population represents a particularly interesting “risk pool” not only due to their usage patterns in the home, but also due to the theory that “tech savvy” teens, who have spent their entire cognizant lives in the Internet age, may prove to be a harder human target for social engineering attacks than their elders.

To gain a better understanding of home computing practices, GFI® Software commissioned a scientific study of home Internet use by parents and their teenage children. This population represents a particularly interesting “risk pool” not only due to their usage patterns in the home, but also due to the theory that “tech savvy” teens, who have spent their entire cognizant lives in the Internet age, may prove to be a harder human target for social engineering attacks than their elders.

Microsoft’s Kinect technology is now more than just a cool gaming control system…it shows incredible potential as an input system for more serious purposes.

Free open source software, with a side dish of “additional installs.”

What if you could use smartphone-style apps on your computer, too? Well, now you can.

Google has been touting its Chrome operating system for a while, and now the
first computers running that OS, made by Samsung and Acer, are available.

The good news for Detective Mills is “not her pretty head”.
The bad news for Detective Mills is “some rogue AV”.