There is a new major malware virus going around right now. This one is “Digital Protection” and infects computers after the user gets one of those pop-ups that says “You have a virus!” The odd thing about this one is that it’s also taking over the Windows Updater program, so it can’t be used to [...]

For those eagerly awaiting the latest security patches from Apple on Snow Leopard, they’re here! Client version can be downloaded here. Server version can be downloaded here. From Apple’s KB Article about the Client version, here are the fixes. General operating system fixes provided for: an issue that caused data to be deleted when using [...]

Flash on Macintosh, and to a much greater extent Safari use to be ignored in the online game world. All too frequently us happy Apple users would be depressed with message saying “You Must be Running Internet Explorer to access this site. Click Here to Download Internet Explorer.” Which was even more annoying once Microsoft [...]

Some guys from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and the University of Tokyo claim that they’ve developed techniques to make flash chips a bit more robust. Current flash chips have about a finite lifetime of reads & writes due to the design of the technology. As the chip sizes get smaller, [...]