Archive for December 17, 2011

How to remove ads from IM clients

They can slow down your computer and have the potential to contain harmful content–from adult products you don’t want young eyes to see to adware or malware. RemoveAds is a Windows program that can be installed to remove those pesky (and sometimes
CNET (blog)

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Adware Reborn As Facebook Theme Software / – InformationWeek

Come on you Facebookees, don’t install Facebook programs that trash your News Feed and Profile with Ads!

Let’s try to keep Facebook Social not Commercial …. of course we are really too late for that …

A new generation of advertising software plagues Facebook and Google. Is there anything they can do about it?

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The Cybersecurity “Wake Up Call” and the Snooze Button

While Alex has dealt rather masterfully with the consequences of the trumped-up Russian SCADA hacking incident, I’d like to point to a different aspect of it: the cybersecurity “wake up call.” The Springfield incident was immediately called a “wake up

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DNA: The next big hacking frontier

This is very interesting and scary …

But although we can reformat our hard disks to remove a computer virus, we can’t reformat our genomes … yet. Read more news and ideas on Innovations. Follow us on Twitter and Tumblr, and become a fan on Facebook. Read more from Vivek Wadhwa.

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Smart Grid: Do we need a Department of Homeland Cybersecurity?

I’m not a proponent of More Government, but the US Electric Grid is at risk from Cyberattacks that could cipple our country.

Smart Grid – A new report out from MIT says the grid is threatened and there are too many cybersecurity groups with too little enforcement power to keep it safe. Do we, as.

SmartGridNews.com

The future Battlefield is Cybersecurity.

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2011 U.S. Cyber Security – PR Newswire

This study covers the US market of cybersecurity within state and local government, examining applications, mobile devices, outsourcing, and procurement of

www.prnewswire.com/…/2011-us-cyber-security-134817118…

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