Editorials from Security - FreeSoft

For many consumers, keeping track of their online user names and passwords across all of their different devices feels like an impossible task. In fact, when given a list of potentially challenging activities, 40 percent of people surveyed by Norton by Symantec indicate remembering all of their passwords is among the top three most difficult – more than those who selected balancing their che [...] » read more

Tags:Norton, Identity Safe, free, cloud-enabled service, password

Author: John Milton | Published: April 26, 2012 12:00 AM

Dropbox is a free service that allows people bring their documents, photos, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Dropbox announced an even easier way for people to instantly share the things that matter most, with just a link. Now documents, photos, and videos can be shared simply by creating and sending a link to friends, family, or colleagues, whether they are Dropbox users or not. "We're [...] » read more

Tags:Dropbox, free, service, link, "Get link", button

Author: John Milton | Published: April 25, 2012 12:00 AM

T-Platforms is a global developer and supplier of supercomputers and a full range of solutions and services for high-performance computing, and has recently announced an agreement to design a computer cluster capable of 10 PFlops (10^15 floating point operations per second) for M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will develop a complete computing sy [...] » read more

Tags:T-Platforms, supercomputer, Moscow, Lomonosov Supercomputer

Author: John Milton | Published: December 29, 2011 12:00 AM

The AVOID software is a tactical awareness device for providing real-time imagery of hazards ahead of a jet aircraft. Information is supplied to the cockpit from two fast-sampling, imaging infrared cameras that are tuned to detect hazardous volcanic ash particles in the airspace up to 100 km ahead of the aircraft day or night. At normal flight cruising altitudes and speeds this will give a pilot-7 [...] » read more

Tags:AVOID, software, device, jet, hazards

Author: John Milton | Published: December 16, 2011 12:00 AM

Sony has announced bad news: hackers have your personal data, and they may have your credit card information as well. California's disclosure law, for instance, doesn't come into play as long the data is encrypted, or law enforcement states that disclosing the breach could harm an investigation of the PlayStation Network hacked and data stolen data. "The law enforcement provision in these laws h [...] » read more

Tags:Sony, PlayStation Network, data

Author: John Milton | Published: April 28, 2011 12:00 AM

The following rows have been written in a large common effort to inform those mothers, fathers and friends out there to finally wise up and stop clicking and replying to every single email that has fascinating to-good-to-be-true offers before actually investigating a little bit.
The last straw
As with every “major revolution” the idea of the tips were brought on by a silly em [...] » read more

Author: Radoi Cosmin Stefan | Published: February 17, 2011 12:00 AM

For those that have been in the dark recently, Anonymous is a group of cyber attackers responsible for various acts, starting from anti science protests and culminating with attacks on MasterCard and Visa, as a sign of endorsement towards Wikileaks. Undercover The members of the group are wanted by many organizations including the FBI. But up until now, proper identification has proven too dif [...] » read more

Author: Radoi Cosmin Stefan | Published: February 14, 2011 12:00 AM