The Advancement of the Keylogger

A keylogger is a program that runs in your computer’s background secretly recording all your keystrokes. Once your keystrokes are logged, they are hidden away for later retrieval by the attacker. The attacker then carefully reviews the information in hopes of finding passwords or other information that would prove useful to them. For example, a keylogger can easily obtain confidential emails and reveal them to any interested outside party willing to pay for the information. Keyloggers can be either software or hardware based. Software-based keyloggers are easy to distribute and infect, but at the same time are more easily detectable. Hardware-based keyloggers are more complex and harder to detect. For all that you know, your keyboard...

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Planet Gliese 581d Livable Ascertained

Gliese 581d, a rocky planet orbiting a giant red dwarf stars (stars with masses lower than the sun and the temperature below 4000 degrees Kelvin) is confirmed as the first planet that meets the requirements to accommodate life. Planet which is about 20 light-years from Earth is one of our closest neighboring planet. He estimated temperature is warm enough and wet enough to cultivate a similar life-owned planet Earth. Orbiting Gliese 581d in the Goldilocks zone (the area where possible life forms) belonging to the star Gliese 581. As is known, in the Goldilocks zone, the temperature not too hot, causing the water to boil or not too cold to make it freeze but it was in the right temperature so that water remains in liquid form. "With a dense...

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Protection You Can Afford

There are numerous ways you can lose the information on your computer. Your child decides to play Chopin on your keyboard, a power surge, lightening, a virus, or even simple equipment failure. Therefore, backing up the contents of your hard drive is an absolute MUST. By regularly making backup copies of your files and storing them in a separate location, you can typically get some, if not all, of your information back in the event your computer crashes. While a regular backup to floppy, CD, or zip drive will save your files, wouldn’t it be great if you could create an exact copy (a drive image) of your hard disk? That means backups of all your files, programs, and user settings. This would definitely save you time when it came to reloading....

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Fujitsu announced the launch of the ScanSnap N1800

Fujitsu announced the launch of the ScanSnap N1800, network document scanner the first to offer features connection to various services such as Salesforce CRM Cloud, Google Docs and Evernote. This scanner combines functionality with ease of use so that the scanning process and share documents seamlessly take place without the complicated process of preparation. ScanSnap N1800 has a fully functional so that more cost effective because users do not need to purchase additional hardware. Users simply press one button to start the scanning process so that the accelerating digitalization of documents in order to facilitate access to information within the company. The scanner is equipped with features advanced security to ensure the protection...

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How many spyware items are infecting your computer?

I just had, by mistake, a plug-in called Intelligent Explorer attach to my browser. What a nightmare! I have another article on this topic, but this brings home a point. Spyware or adware items are continually infecting computers. Most computers have no protection from them. Most frightening is the frequency of them. From the InfosecWriters web site, "According to a 2004 survey by America Online and the National Cyber Security Alliance, 91% of users questioned were familiar with the term spyware. Only 53% believed their computers were infected, but a scan found that 80% of their PCs had some type of spyware installed on them." It goes on to say, "...The average number of spyware components per computer was 93 with one computer having...

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make your reading easy bye Reader Book Light

eReaders have certainly picked up the pace over the years, what with the introduction of touchscreen devices and what not. Well, some of us might have migrated our in-bed reading habits from a paperback to a paperless version with the slew of eReaders around, but what happens when you are looking for the perfect reading light solution that won’t disturb your soundly sleeping partner while not straining your eyes at the same time? Enter the eReader Book Light, where it lets you shine a bright light at any angle and in any direction thanks to a fully adjustable and flexible arm. There is also a special e-flector that prevents glare while focusing soft, diffused light onto the screen. Capable of delivering more than 15 hours of readable light,...

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Fighting off Viruses: Advancements in Antivirus Software Suites

Protecting your computer from a virus is getting harder and harder each day. While it may border on the paranoid, it goes without saying that you can’t leave your guard down for one second. Even corporate giant Microsoft has found its own systems compromised on more than one occasion. Remember the “good old days”, before the advent of the Internet and downloadable programs? Life was simple then in terms of computer viruses. With the primary way in which a virus could be transmitted being limited to floppy disks, the ability to catch and eradicate the virus was a lot easier. By today’s standards, it used to take quite a while before a virus was able to infect a computer and slow down the system. The antivirus software of that time...

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