Antivirus software is installed around the world and gets to see (and hopefully stop) a lot of malicious attempts to infect a computer. AVG has compiled their data from the second quarter of what their anti-virus and Internet Security software has recognized in the AVG Community Powered Threat Report - Q2 2011 (pdf). The numbers are nicely graphed out to make it quite apparent … [Read more...]
The End Of The Camera Focus May Be Upon Us Thanks To Lytro’s Light Field Technology
Lytro is a new company that is bringing years of academic research to the consumer electronics market. Their big break-through is related to the digital camera and allowing you to define where you want to focus of the image to be after the picture is taken. Remember when you learned with modern cameras how to do that half-button press thing so the focus will grab what you're … [Read more...]
Google Takes Strides Against Insecure Javascript
In the past few days, Google's Online Security blog has made a few posts related to closing the security hole that Javascript opens. As a popular vector for infecting site visitors, Google is helping where they can - inside the Google Chrome browser. Mozilla Firefox has its add-on, NoScript, which helps secure users with it installed from malicious Javascript on webpages. While … [Read more...]
A Few YouTube Easter Eggs
YouTube has a few easter eggs that are good for a laugh or two. The arcade game, Snake With any YouTube video, you can press up while it's loading to play the game Snake. You can also hold the left arrow key down so the video rewinds to the beginning and then press the up arrow key to more reliably get the game to load. Then you have classic snake. Eat the apples (blinking … [Read more...]
WordPress Warns: Popular WordPress Plugins Given Backdoors and Pushed Out
WordPress.org warned tonight that a few popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) for self-hosted WordPress blogs were suspiciously updated today. Upon closer inspection, the updates did not appear to come from the plugins' respective authors and the changes made to the code included backdoors to allow others access to the site. Since becoming aware of these … [Read more...]