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- MS Security Essentials test shows 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples
- According to recent tests conducted by AV-Test.org aiming to measure the performance of Microsoft's Security Essentials, the freeware application achieved 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples including viruses, bots, trojan horses, backdoors and Internet worms, also achieving 90.95% detection rate for 14,222 adware/spyware samples it was tested against. ...
- Tags: Freeware, Antivirus, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Electroacoustics Toolbox 2.1.1 (Mac)
- Electroacoustics Toolbox is a modularized, multi-channel dynamic signal analyzer and data acquisition platform for the Mac. Electroacoustics Toolbox brings powerful tools to the Macintosh platform for multi-channel, audio-band data acquisition and real-time analysis of electrical, acoustical, and electroacoustic signals and systems. Electroacoustics Toolbox enables precision measurements of acoustic quantities, such...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Data Acquisition, Loudspeaker, Waveform, Analysis, Faber Acoustical, Electroacoustics Toolbox, Desktops, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-09-17
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Major antivirus engines failing to detect malware
- Major antivirus engines failing to detect malwareWhat an impossible jobI don't see any company stopping it allI'm not saying they should call it a day but anti-virus is mostly useless against the kind of attacks I've seen lately. It only gives the casual user a false sense of security. Tighten...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, White-List, Anti-Virus Software, malware, antivirus, antivirus engine
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- Does free antivirus offer a false feeling of security?
- Earlier this month, Symantec's product manager David Hall dismissed free security software as equal alternative to the paid versions, and also described Microsoft's free "Microsoft Security Essentials" as "a stripped down version of the OneCare product Microsoft pulled from retail shelves". Needless to say that such statements...
- Tags: Antivirus, Antivirus Scanner, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- 2009 Lexus GS 450h
- Photo gallery:2009 Lexus GS 450h Our perfect power train combines high performance with excellent fuel economy, an ideal that the 2009 Lexus GS 450h comes the closest of any car we've seen to delivering. Lexus claims 5.2 seconds to 60 mph, yet this big, comfortable sedan consistently registers fuel economy...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Lexus, Lexus GS
- Product reviews 2009-06-30
- Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference
- Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...
- Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Cybercriminals hijack Twitter trending topics to serve malware
- A currently ongoing malware serving campaign across Twitter, is continuing to abuse the momentum offered by Twitter's trending topics in order to trick users into visiting bogus exclusive video sites and infect them with malware. The campaign, spreading since last week, is relying on a growing number...
- Tags: Malware, Video, Twitter, Tweet, Corporate Communications, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Atlassian Embraces Open Social, Shows Strong Momentum at Summit
- The Atlassian Summit 09 has just concluded in San Francisco, kicking off a busy week for coders, with Sun's Java One also happening. The 6 minute video above, shot in dynamic wobble vision from my Flip UltraHD, is of a portion of CEO...
- Tags: Plug-in, Atlassian Summit 09, Mike Cannon-Brooke, Collaboration Component, Confluence 3 Confluence, Kap IT, Wiki, Collaboration, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac
- I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddanceâ€...
- Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Next Computer, Canon Inc., Fanboy Template Let, Andrew, NeXTStep, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Facebook game aids development of new 'Google for music' search engine
- A new kind of music search engine from the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego allows for users to discover music by typing in free-text semantic queries rather than song titles, album names or artist names. For example, if you're in the mood for "groovy driving music with...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Team, Search Engine, Music, Games, Team Management, Search, Personal Technology, Management, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-05-17
- Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory
- Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...
- Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so far
- Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so farInteresting...... since the amount of spam I've received today is much greater than it has been in the past. Somebody has ramped up the effort on the bad guys' side.RE: Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so farHrmmm well no duh! Did you...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, E-mail, Viruses and worms, Conficker, quiet, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-04-01
- "Napping" data centers could cut energy use by 75%
- Researchers at the University of Michigan have announced a plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume by putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use. Thomas Wenisch, assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Server, Power Supply, PowerNap, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Conficker worm to DDoS legitimate sites in March
- Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain generation algorithm used for the generation of dynamic command and control locations in order to make it nearly impossible for researchers and the industry to take them down. However, once the domain registration algorithm was successfully reverse...
- Tags: Domain, Worm, Distributed Denial Of Service, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Engineers are from Mars, Marketers are from Venus
- If you're familiar with the relationship book 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus' and work with technology, you may have noticed the fundamental differences in the way people think about software. In companies of all sizes, the challenges of working to keep existing...
- Tags: Line Of Business, Information Technology, Friction, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Mirage MX 5.1
- Just when we thought satellite/subwoofer systems couldn't get any smaller, along comes the ultracompact Mirage MX 5.1 retailing for $1,200. (Mirage calls it a "Home Theater System," but it's really just a surround speaker package that requires a separate AV receiver/amplifier.) Just how small is it? Each MX satellite speaker...
- Tags: speaker, Mirage MX 5.1, deflector, satellite
- Product reviews 2009-02-20
- Our new business/technology curriculum
- Our business department is undergoing some shifts next fall due to changing budgets, retiring staff, and a technology director (that's me) who would like to see the way we teach computing. Up until now, aside from a web design class (introductory HTML, WYSIWYG tools, design principles, etc.), we've largely...
- Tags: Web, HTML, Student, Course, Tool, Programming, Web Design, Productivity, Channel Management, Storage, Databases, Marketing, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Quantum holographic storage: it works!
- Quantum holographic storage: it works!Star Wars Geeks building a HolocronA new attempt. The old way used different colored lasers to store information in a artificial crystal. but I think this one will work better as long as the material stays stable.the crystal idea was a cube and was multi-layered...
- Tags: holographic storage, storage, Quantum Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-03
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