[LINK] Free McAfee Mobile Security app

2014-02-26 Thread Stephen Loosley
McAfee offers free Mobile Security app Also releases troubling mobile security figures By Chris Player (ARN) 26 February, 2014 McAfee has released a free version of its mobile security app. The free version of McAfee's Mobile Security app for Android includes enhanced protection features and

Re: [LINK] Cyberattacks, max the CPU and turn-off fans

2014-02-26 Thread Scott Howard
This is hardly new(s). Viruses that damage "hardware" date back to at least 1998 with the CIH virus that overwrote the computers BIOS, in a day where this could frequently not be recovered from without physically replacing the BIOS chip in many systems - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_

[LINK] Cyberattacks, max the CPU and turn-off fans

2014-02-26 Thread Stephen Loosley
RSA security attack demo deep-fries Apple Mac By Ellen Messmer (Network World) — 26 February, 2014 20:13 San Francisco -- How bad can cyberattacks get? How about burning the internal components of a machine, whether PC or Mac, to a crisp so there's no thought of it being recoverable? That

[LINK] Net Neutrality consideration in Australia

2014-02-26 Thread Jan Whitaker
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/blogs/gadgets-on-the-go/net-neutrality--a-debate-we-cant-afford-to-ignore-20140226-33hco.html Interesting points about various throttling already happening in the comments section. Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jw...@janwhitaker.com Sooner