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Wired News: A Tale of Two Hackers

Lapping up the sunshine here outside a downtown cafe, Kevin Mitnick is apprehensive. He never asked to be the world’s most high-profile convicted computer criminal, he says, and he’s sick of media interviews dwelling on his criminal past.
“But … that’s how you make your money,” interjected Alexis Kasperavičius, Mitnick’s longtime friend, business partner and one-time [...]

File-Sharing Pioneer Turns to Free Internet Calling

In co-creating the file-sharing software Kazaa in 2000, Zennstrom helped fuel an online revolution that music labels and motion picture studios say threatens their existence. Sued by the entertainment industry even though he sold Kazaa in 2002, Zennstrom avoids the United States as his lawyers seek to remove him from the case.
Now, the 39-year-old Swede, [...]

HDD jumper settings

Mentioned in the LangaList on-line newsletter and currently located on the Ontrack Data Recovery web site Hdd Jumper Viewer a single, bookmarkable page that acts as a front end to eight different drive vendors.

Google Sitemaps: RSS For The Entire Website?

Sitemaps works by taking advantage of XML and RSS capabilities. By placing XML code on the web server, you inform Google of when changes occur, and they respond by crawling the updated pages and making the necessary updates to the search index. Over at the Google Blog, Engineering Director Shiva Shivakumar indicated why Google launched [...]

Mytob writers could be creating a superbug

Virus writers responsible for the recent rash of Mytob worm variants could be working on creating a superworm, a security researcher warned today.
The HellBot group behind the Mytob worms writes programming instructions in its code that mirror the way developers work, said Sophos PLC security consultant Carole Theriault. “The only conclusion we can come [...]

Hotworld

Although McAfee rates this trojan as “low” risk, no topic has dominated the computer world over the last few days more than espionage committed with a specially written trojan known as “Hotworld”.
As with many spyware related infections, this program may have been created by those seeking illicit profits. Unfortunately (for the infected company systems) [...]

Outsourcing tutoring

NEW DELHI: After high-tech industry, outsourcing of educational services is now a growing business with Indian teachers tutoring American school children at a far less cost than their US counterparts.
A large number of Indian math and engineering graduates has made the country an attractive resource for some US tutoring firms.
“It’s a phenomenon that some [...]

Welcome

For several months, we’ve been asked to include a forum or blog on the pcdoctorsgroup site. Affiliates (PCdoctors) and customers tell us that it would be useful if they could have access to information that :
1. provides a discussion of topics related to pc maintenance and repair,
2. provides information about the latest in computer usage [...]