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Best Buy Geek Squad 'Black Tie Protection' promises premium service, cummerbunds

Best Buy Geek Squad 'Black Tie Protection' promises premium service, cummerbundsIt's a load of bull...STAY AWAY FROM THE GEEK SQUAD!I can't tell you how many times I have had to straighten out a computer that was screwed up by the Geek Squad.These folks are perhaps the most incompetent bunch of...

Tags: Geek Squad, Black Tie Protection, Black Tie, Best Buy Co. Inc., premium service

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

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News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware’s Datacenter OS: Windows isn’t the competition ...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Best Buy Geek Squad 'Black Tie Protection' promises premium service, cummerbunds

Just when you thought your computer and all of its potentially pornographic secrets were safe in the hands of Best Buy's Geek Squad once again, the big-box electronic retailer would like to reassure you with its "Geek Squad Black Tie Protection," a product service plan intended to "deliver peace-of-mind for...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Premium Service, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Taking ownership (pwnership) of content: Cross-site Scripting Google

My good friend Billy Rios pictured to the right published another interesting exploit recently.  It's a cross-site scripting exposure in spreadsheets.google.com, which is interesting because it's exploited by using the content-type returned by spreadsheets.google.com and a caching flaw on the part of Google.  Here's some details from Billy's blog: I was...

Tags: Security, Google Inc., HTML, XSS, Domain, Billy Rios, Rios, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Virus writers use open-source methods

Virus writers use open-source methodsOkay, One "good" use for open sourceThe virus writers will be able to apply the pure open source model; the use of the program provides its value rather than sales of the software itself.I hope that any person caught distributing exploit code useable for malicious purposes...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, open source, virus

Discussion threads 2006-07-17