Archive for July, 2007
Bilge on the environment – the earth needs no saving
I agree with what Bilge has to say about saving the planet. NB. Do not read Bilge if you’re easily offended – as you really won’t like the swearing. I’m all for doing my bit but green-hijacking is now a serious concern to me. I’m getting really fed-up with every company jumping on the green [...]
Using Automator to delete files
I use Automator to perform various backup functions on my Macs. I backup different data at different schedules depending on how often the source data is likely to change. For stuff that gets backed up regularly there’s the problem of accumulating too many ‘old’ backup files. I found a script at macosxhints.com that solves this [...]
Macs better, ASA rules
I picked this up from issue 185 of MacFormat. In a response to complaints about Apple’s ‘Get A Mac’ campaign, the Advertising Standards Agency stated … We understood that Macs that did not run Microsoft Windows contracted fewer viruses than PCs that ran Microsoft Windows and as a result they were less likely to crash [...]
Email snooping
The article on WashingtonPost.com Set a Hacker Alarm on Your Web Mail Box outlines a potential problem with webmail accounts and proposes a ‘clever’ solution. The problem they report is that hackers can break-in to your webmail account and read your emails thus harvesting sensitive information allowing them to easily relieve you of your money. [...]
DDoS without malware
The BBC’s article Net criminals shun virus attacks advises that creative criminals have found a way to launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) without directly infecting users’ machines with malware. One attack seen by Prolexic in May exploited a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) or file-sharing network. By compromising a P2P hub, an attacker was [...]
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