Archive for March, 2009

I think my hard drive is crashing

If you think your hard drive has crashed or is failing

March 3, 2009 Posted in: Computer Help No Comments

Security News
- Facebook glitch let spammer post to walls September 3, 2010
  A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week. […]
- HP buys 3Par, Apple rolls out new gear September 3, 2010
  Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week. […]
- Apple had two months to fix critical QuickTime bug, says researcher September 3, 2010
  A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said Friday. […]
- Security program automatically tracks down missing patches September 3, 2010
  Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. PSI 2.0 is now available in an open beta test. […]
- Botnet takedown may yield valuable data September 2, 2010
  Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam. […]