If you were on the jury, what would you have done? The conviction of substitute teacher Julie Amero has led to no small amount of heated debate in technology circles. ... Read More

Grisoft's AVG antivirus appears to be struggling with a false postive. Over the past few days, there have been several reports of erroneous detection of the Flooder.BBG trojan in legitimate ... Read More

On the one hand, it seems like a no-brainer. Good guy Brad Willman booby-traps illicit images with a trojan, posts those pictures to newsgroups frequented by pedophiles, then uses the ... Read More

Chances are, there are dozens of security vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited on your system - from Apple's QuickTime to Mozilla's Firefox to Sun's Java (and nearly everything in between). ... Read More

Don't use a wireless router in your home if you're not prepared to take certain security precautions. Use wired connections instead. Having said that, it's not as hard to secure ... Read More

Pharming redirects the user's browsing either by changing records in the user's DNS server or changing their DNS server altogether. In its simplest form, a DNS server resolves a sites ... Read More

Sometimes a measure of how big something is, is how small it eventually becomes. RFID was developed in World War II, helping radar operators distinguish friendly aircraft from enemy. By the 1980s, ... Read More

| Tutorial | What you can't see, can hurt you. By default, Windows disables viewing of hidden files and folders, and also disables viewing of executable file extensions. While the ... Read More

| Definition | A false positive occurs when a virus scanner erroneously detects a 'virus' in a non-infected file. False positives result when the signature used to detect a particular ... Read More

What is it about chain letters that make otherwise insightful people blindly obey the instructions? Here's a classic that's hit my inbox dozens of times over the years: MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP ... Read More

Trend Micro is urging users to update after discovery of flaws impacting their product line. The most serious of the three discovered vulnerabilities is a UPX parsing kernel buffer overflow ... Read More

PC mythbuster Gregg Keizer has penned a great article for PC World magazine, putting the kabosh on those long-held beliefs about computers that just aren't, well, true. The article even ... Read More

Most of us have multiple sites we visit which require logins. So many, in fact, that it's tempting to use the same username/password combo for all of them. Don't. Otherwise, ... Read More

By now, we're all used to seeing those fake emails that claim your eBay account was hijacked, or claim listings for items you know aren't really on your account. The ... Read More

You don't know what you don't know. I was reminded of that recently when I received an email that started off with "to the best of my knowledge" and which ... Read More

The only criticism I have of this list is that it isn't an annual affair. Dan Tynan of itWorldCanada pays homage to: "the Net's ability to expose scoundrels, scalawags, liars, cheats, ... Read More