Whenever there’s a new post about cleaning, maintenance, or tune-up apps on Download Squad, it seems like there’s always at least one commenter who proclaims their affinity for Advanced SystemCare. And with good reason: SystemCare does a good job of cleaning up temp files and browsing traces (including Flash cookies), tuning the Windows registry, and …
Category Archive: Techno Blabber!
Feb
11
The Rise of Caller ID Spoofing
By Andy Jordan February 5, 2010 http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/02/05/the-rise-of-caller-id-spoofing/ Applications that let users change or “spoof” their Caller ID are gaining in popularity in mobile phone app stores, even as Congress considers stalled legislation to outlaw particular uses of the technology, and criminals use it to engage in nefarious activity. Caller ID spoofing technology allows a user …
Feb
02
CIA, PayPal under bizarre SSL assault
ATTACKED : CIA, PayPal under bizarre SSL assault Plus hundreds of others By Dan Goodin in San Francisco 29 January 2010 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/strange_ssl_web_attack/ The Central Intelligence Agency, PayPal, and hundreds of other organizations are under an unexplained assault that’s bombarding their websites with millions of compute-intensive requests. The “massive” flood of requests is made over the …