Simple Passwords Remain Popular, Despite Risk of Hacking – NYTimes.com

If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe By ASHLEE VANCE Published: January 20, 2010 Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345.” The New York Times Today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.” Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including [...]

Microsoft urges Windows XP users to ditch old Flash version

Microsoft has had it with old versions of Adobe Flash and has issued Security Advisory 979267 to urge users to either uninstall old versions, or upgrade to the latest. More specifically, the software giant is asking users ditch Flash Player 6.0 as the multimedia player plugin contains multiple bugs. Microsoft rarely issues security advisories on [...]

Acer Recalls Notebook Computers Due to Burn Hazard

Acer Recalls Notebook Computers Due to Burn Hazard WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Certain Acer Aspire-series Notebook Computers Units: About 22,000 Manufacturer: [...]

Those Green Doublelined Words on a Web Page

When you surf, do you see random words or phrases with double underlines? When you move your mouse over them, they display an advertisement related to the underlined words. This feature, called in-text advertising, turns appropriate words in the browser window into links to the advertiser’s website. These sites work with various companies to link to its [...]

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